Welcome to LNGenZ’s round up of the week’s top news stories. Sniffing Out the Truth About Smells The sense of smell is much more than it seems. Pleasant smells like food cooking in the kitchen and scented candles burning in… Read More
A new medicine could be here to treat the coronavirus, and it’s getting a lot of attention. Drug companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that they have been testing a pill to treat COVID-19. The companies say the pill, called… Read More
Nearly two years after the first COVID-19 cases were discovered, the virus is still affecting America and the world. So, what’s the latest news on the pandemic? More than 40.6 million people in the United States have tested positive for… Read More
Trained canines may be the next big thing in COVID testing. PCR tests, which is short for “polymerase chain reaction” tests, were used to detect COVID-19, but they were known to be ineffective. The New York Times reported they could… Read More
Did you know Mother’s Day was originally intended to celebrate just one person – hence the apostrophe after the “r”? In 1905, Anna Jarvis wanted to commemorate her own mother, who died that year. Mama Jarvis, or Anna Reeves Jarvis,… Read More
Capitalism has been raising the worldwide standard of living for years. Before the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed the planet, the World Bank’s global poverty rate slipped below 8%, down from 10% in 2015. But governments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 public… Read More
COVID Passports – For Real? America suffers from a pandemic that has altered the freedoms we are all used to enjoying. Since the onset of COVID-19 nearly one year ago, Americans have been asked to wear masks, stay away from… Read More
Is it going to be a bone-chilling Halloween for retailers, or a frightful season of riches? The coronavirus pandemic has possessed every corner of the economy, turning the marketplace into a graveyard of business closures and broke consumers. While kids… Read More
President Donald Trump recently tweeted that he was immune to COVID-19. Twitter attached a warning saying that it “spread misleading and potentially harmful information.” Later, one of America’s top medical experts, Dr. Anthony Fauci, partially defended Trump’s statement. So now… Read More
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania have both tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement came late on October 1. Since then, the president has been moved to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he continues to run… Read More
Rules for Thee but not for Me The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly changed our way of life. It’s hard to know what to do, so we turn to our national and local leaders for direction. But what happens when those… Read More
The Violence Keeps Growing For the past several months, our nation has become a battleground for civil unrest resulting in protests, riots, and looting. In Kenosha, WI, Jacob Blake was shot by the police. This sparked riots in the area and… Read More
