A Black Lives Matter protest more accessible to those in the disabled community is being organized for next Friday in Portsmouth.
Granite State News Collaborative
Due to the COVID-19 shutdown, some residents in New Hampshire have spent life at home since March learning new skills, exploring newfound passions and accomplishing once-daunting tasks with hard work and perseverance.
Now, as the timeline of coronavirus’ landing on American shores nears the six-month mark, such individual passions, once viewed as an outlet to pass the time, have become instrumental to the “Safer at Home” everyday lifestyle for some Granite Staters.
For the past six months, restaurants have had to adapt, improve and overcome in order to stay in business during the pandemic. As colder weather started, Mike Somers, CEO of the New Hampshire Restaurant and Lodging Association, was concerned that the end to outdoor dining, which he called a “saving grace,” could spell disaster.
In February, Rachel Cohen never would have guessed that by August she would have left her hometown with her partner for a new life and a new job.
She was a single mom, living in Peterborough, New Hampshire, working at a nonprofit and struggling to make ends meet. She had been dating Maine farmer Matthew Scala long-distance for about a year and had recently successfully convinced him to move closer to her. She had no intention of moving away from Peterborough until after her daughter had finished high school.
New Hampshire officials plan to give nursing home owners and operators more control of a program that searches for signs of COVID-19 among 10,000 employees in the state’s high-level care facilities.
But some of the people running the 75 nursing homes in the state are worried about uncertain test costs and the threat of large deficits.
Health care officials in New Hampshire are expecting a resurgence of Covid-19 moving into flu season.
In response, some hospitals will be testing for a range of respiratory viruses in patients who are presenting symptoms, meaning an individual could be tested for influenza, Covid-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses simultaneously. As it is, the flu and Covid-19 share very similar symptoms.
A century has passed since women won the right to vote, enshrining suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as crusaders of equal rights. However, the work of writers and educators like Sojourner Truth, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Nannie Helen Burroughs are often left off the pages chronicling the passing of the 19th Amendment.
A new surge of COVID-19 infections in southern states has reversed Texas’ and Florida’s statewide reopening plans. New York City announced this week that it would postpone indoor dining indefinitely as infections in other states have been traced to bars and restaurants. New Jersey recently reversed its plan to reopen restaurants for indoor dining.
