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To date about 898 people have died and 50,548 others have been infected with the virus in South Carolina—with roughly one in five tests returning a positive result. Overnight, the state experienced a 20 percent increase in the number of new cases, with about 2,300 positive tests, while the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control on Thursday announced that more than 75 percent of its total hospital beds are occupied. Of the 7,991 hospital beds currently occupied statewide, about 1,433 of them are being used by COVID-19 patients. South Carolina’s majority-black communities have been hit the hardest, according to media reports and statistics from the state health agency DHEC.  … [Read more...] about ‘Worse Than New York’: How Coronavirus Exploded in South Carolina

The figures are adjusted by population size and consider each U.S. state as it if were its own country since many are richer and larger in land mass and population than some countries abroad. Places on the list like Panama, Kazakhstan and Armenia are also poorer than the U.S. … [Read more...] about US Sun Belt has more new coronavirus cases than any country

FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, senior United Nations official Helen Clark, left, who heads the U.N. Development Program, addresses U.N. General Assembly members about her candidacy for U.N. secretary-general at the U.N. headquarters as General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft, right, and others listen to her. Former New Zealand Prime Minister Clark told her staff on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, that she's stepping down from her senior role at the United Nations when her term expires in April. The move comes three months after Clark failed in her bid to land the U.N.'s top job. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) (The Associated Press) … [Read more...] about Former New Zealand leader Helen Clark to leave UN

The U.S. State Department said in a release that international students are welcome in the U.S., but the policy “provides greater flexibility for non-immigrant students to continue their education in the United States, while also allowing for proper social distancing on open and operating campuses.” … [Read more...] about Foreign students weigh studying in person vs. losing visas

An Associated Press analysis has found that a special exemption to the 500-employee cap set the stage for approval of at least $1.4 billion for groups affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, making it one of the program’s big winners. Many of those millions are going to pay salaries and other expenses in dioceses that recently paid huge financial settlements to victims of clergy sexual abuse. … [Read more...] about Takeaways: Paycheck Protection loans and the Catholic Church