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Two people in Washington state have died from coronavirus, according to the state s Department of Health. At least 89 people have been sickened with the disease across 12 states.At a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, outside Seattle, two people have tested positive for coronavirus and more than 50 others associated with the facility are sick and being checked for the virus. The Life Care Center says families and volunteers are not allowed to visit over concerns the infections could spread.One woman, who asked not to be identified, said she s scared because her mom and aunt work at the center. My aunt has direct contact with patients, that s my concern, she told CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti. It s not just the two of them that s going to be affected, it s going to be the whole family. Over the weekend, health officials announced new infections in Washington, Oregon, California,
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stanley cup testing for the illness. The federal government said it has the capacity to screen 75,000 people, but it s also investigating a possible manufacturing defect in some of its test kits, prompting some states, including New York, to use their own tests instead. President Donald Trump sought to reassure Americans over the weekend. Healthy individuals should be able to fully recover, and we think that will be a statement that we can make with great surety Tsym Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancerous growths removed from lung
EMMITSBURG, MD. -- A small Catholic college in Maryland is in turmoil after a report that its president wanted to weed out struggling students quickly to improve the school s standing. Now some teachers have been sent packing.Ed Egan was a professor at Mount Saint Mary s Uni
af1 versity in Maryland.On a day like today, he would normally be on campus. Today I d be teaching my class on the First Amendment, he said.
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yeezy non grata and not welcome to visit the university s campus, because he violated his duty of loyalty to the school. It all began last month when the student newspaper reported that school President Simon Newman wanted professors to identify struggling students in the first few weeks of school so they could be encouraged to drop out.Some faculty members resisted and the school paper The Moutain Echo reported that Newman told them: This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies. But you can t. You just have to drown the bunnies ... put a Glock to their heads. Many students and faculty were outraged. It s not just the words, but it s the plan the words described, Egan said. Weeding out students because we think they might not do well in order to make the numbers look better That s not
