Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch is predicting the coronavirus “will ultimately not be containable” and, within a year, will infect somewhere between 40 and 70 percent of humanity, The Atlantic reports. But don’t be too alarmed. Many of those people, Lipsitch clarifies, won’t have severe illnesses or even show symptoms at all, which is already the case Read more
Bayelign Teshager, a 20-year-old from Ethiopia making his marathon debut, won the 35th Los Angeles Marathon Sunday morning, pulling away from Kenya’s John Langat in the final mile for a 2 hour, 8 minute, 25 second victory. Teshager, who turns 20 Monday, threw in a series of surges toward the bottom of San Vicente Boulevard Read more
By Mary Alexander Chief copy editor and Facebook program coordinator, Africa Check May 2, 2021 “The Atlantic Ocean was known as Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century,” reads text on a graphic posted on Instagram last month. It includes what looks like a part of an old map showing the western coastline of Africa, the ocean labelled “Aethiopian Read more
