Covid-19: Public Health Agency Weighs Stronger Protection for Front-Line Workers
OTTAWA鈥擳he Public Health Agency of Canada says it will consult with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions on its next set of guidelines for protecting health-care workers against the novel coronavirus, but warned stricter protocols carry their own set of risks. The interim guidelines the federal public health agency released this month lay out the precautions health-care workers should take when assessing and treating a patient possibly infected with the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, including what protective equipment should be used. The nurses’ unions warned the national guidelines to protect nurses, doctors and other hospital staff from exposure to the highly contagious virus are less stringent than those in other jurisdictions, including provincial rules in Ontario. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, for example, calls for health-care workers to wear…
Three men were injured, two critically, after an explosion and fire struck a business in downtown Los Angeles, fire officials said.
About 140 firefighters rushed to the scene early Saturday afternoon and extinguished the fire in just over an hour, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
The two critically injured men have severe burns and the third was transported in fair condition with unspecified injuries, officials said. The three were taken to hospitals.
The one-story building, which sits along a row of commercial businesses, suffered serious damage.
“The well-coordinated LAFD defensive operations prevented either of two adjacent businesses from sustaining fire damage,” the department said.
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‘Let’s Go Home:’ Afghan War Vets Torn on US-Taliban Deal
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Veterans of America’s longest war are finding themselves torn as the United States signs a potentially historic peace accord with the Taliban in Afghanistan. For many, the United States is long overdue in withdrawing its forces after more than 18 years of fighting. Others question the trustworthiness of the Taliban, whose hard-line government the U.S.-led forces overthrew in 2001. Skeptics worry the Taliban’s reintegration could cause Afghanistan to backslide on such issues as human rights. “If they sign a peace treaty and Afghanistan goes back to the Taliban or Sharia law, then it’s all been for nothing,” said former Army Staff Sgt. Will Blackburn of Hinesville, Georgia. U.S. First Lt. Shane Oravsky (L) of the 101st Airborne Division searches a house with an Afghan police officer in Mandozai, in…
