Louisiana’s governor said Thursday afternoon that a 42% increase in coronavirus cases reported between Wednesday and Thursday is likely the result of delays from commercial tests that are typically performed at drive-thru sites, indicating the people getting tested are generally healthy enough to avoid hospitalization.
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Dozens of anxious law students flooded an emergency phone meeting of the California Committee of Bar Examiners on Monday to beg for automatic admission to the bar rather than face the uncertainty of a postponed exam.
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Turning up the heat on the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak in America, Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee issued a letter to senior health officials Thursday demanding they turn over information about U.S. testing capacity.
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As Congress and the White House work on more measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its toll on the economy, the Senate voted Wednesday to send a House-approved bill covering free testing and paid sick leave to President Donald Trump’s desk.
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Last month, Corin Barsily Goodwin, a 52-year-old semi-retired tutor from Renton, Washington, visited family in New York City and milled among throngs of international tourists. It wasn’t until she returned home that she noticed her sore throat.
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Despite an announcement from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that a deal had been reached with the White House, the future of a coronavirus response bill that includes free testing and paid sick leave for workers remains unclear.
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The nation’s senior-most expert on infectious diseases told lawmakers Thursday the U.S. is failing at a federal level to administer broadscale testing for the novel coronavirus.
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A Brazilian official who met with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence just days ago has tested positive for COVID-19, but the White House says neither Trump nor Pence will be tested for the coronavirus.
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One of the world’s leading virologists suspects that there is a growing mass of undetected, symptomless cases of the new coronavirus strain due to technical limitations on diagnostic test kits.
Read moreNew York state sued Thermo Fisher Scientific and Microgenics Corp. for $761,000, claiming they provided urinalysis drug test kits to use in state prisons that produce false positives, subjecting inmates to unwarranted discipline, in Albany County Supreme Court.
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An heiress to the Hot Pockets fortune was sentenced to five months in prison Tuesday for trying to cheat and bribe her daughters’ way into school as part of a nationwide college admissions scam.
Read moreA student cannot pursue his claim that Columbia University’s determination that he failed an examination was “arbitrary and capricious,” a New York appeals court ruled, finding that “strong policy considerations militate against” court intervention in controversies over educational institutions’ evaluations of students’ performance.
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A group of students and education reform advocates sued the University of California system Tuesday, claiming its use of SAT and ACT test scores in admissions discriminates against low-income and minority applicants.
Read moreAmerican students may not be reading any better, but they’re moving up in rankings of educational achievement worldwide because many of their peers in other countries are performing worse.
Read moreA former New York inmate claims in a federal class action that two diagnostic companies issued drug tests that produced false positives, forcing her to be kept in the same cell for 11 straight days.
Read moreAn investigation that found human error caused the leak of California State Bar exam topics this past July also revealed the agency was ill-equipped to handle the fallout.
Read moreA former nursing student sued for readmission to Long Island University-Post, claiming it kicked her out after unfairly accusing her of cheating on a test, though she merely clicked a link on the school website, to which her professor had, apparently inadvertently, attached the next day’s test, in Nassau County Court.
Read moreA federal class action claims Pearson Clinical Assessments exposed confidential information from 1 million students in 13,000 schools nationwide in a data hack.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court has hired retired Justice Arthur Scotland and his law firm Nielsen Merksamer to probe the State Bar of California’s leak of exam essay topics.
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