News — Coronavirus

Over the weekend, a man incarcerated at Cummins Unit prison, an Arkansas state prison in Grady, tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first prisoner in the state correctional system there to do so. The corrections department responded by quickly testing all the other men housed in the same barracks—mass testing that most other states have not done in their prisons. The results, made public on Monday, were shocking: The state corrections department announced that a whopping 43 of the 46 other men in the housing unit had tested positive. They were all asymptomatic and are now quarantined. Health experts around the...

The excellent family that runs Naturally Cozy (which makes the best washable feminine hygiene products in the world, in my humble opinion) have branched out. By popular request, they are making face masks. "We researched the different patterns and came up with a version that is pleated like a real surgical mask, and that ties," they said. These are just the spiffiest things! You have a choice of fabrics to suit your taste. It looks like masks are going to loom large in everyone's future. Why not have something colorful as well as practical? (And speaking of practical, there should...