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What Is Sickle Cell Disease? 03/01/2022 07:00pm • When round and smooth, red blood cells move easily through the body carrying oxygen from the lungs to vital organs. In sickle cell disease, red blood cells are shaped like sickles or crescent moons. These stiff, sticky cells catch on to each other and stick to the walls of the blood vessels. The cel State officials: Bird flu found at 6th Indiana turkey farm 03/01/2022 05:04pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Avian influenza has been detected in a sixth commercial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officials said Tuesday. Laboratory testing of a fourth commercial turkey flock in Dubois County has come back as presumptively positive for the virus, the Indiana State Board of What to watch in Biden's 1st State of the Union address 03/01/2022 03:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sat through many State of the Union speeches as a senator and vice president. On Tuesday night, he’ll deliver the address himself. But it comes at a challenging time for Biden, who is weighed down by public disapproval of his handling of the economy and the British queen holds virtual audiences after COVID symptoms 03/01/2022 07:57am • LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II held two virtual audiences after more than a week of suffering cold-like symptoms from COVID-19. Buckingham Palace said the 95-year-old British monarch held virtual sessions with the ambassadors of Chad and Andorra. The queen canceled several sessions last week, so China manufacturing grows weakly in February 03/01/2022 12:38am • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese manufacturing activity grew weakly in February, hampered by supply disruptions, anti-virus controls and lackluster global demand, two surveys showed Tuesday. A purchasing managers' index issued by a Chinese business magazine, Caixin, improved to 50.4 from January's 49.1 on a Toyota restarting Japan plants after malware hits supplier 03/01/2022 12:07am • TOKYO (AP) — Toyota plans to resume production at all of its 14 plants as of Wednesday, after they were idled for a day due to a cyberattack on a domestic supplier. The supplier, Kojima Industries Corp., said Tuesday it had found a virus in its computer server. Details were under investigation, Today in History 03/01/2022 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2022. There are 305 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 1, 1974, seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former as DC-area schools revise classroom, bus mask policies 02/28/2022 11:55pm • Following new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shift focus on positive test results and more on what's happening at hospitals, D.C.-area schools are revising their mask policies in classrooms and buses. This list will be updated as more schools update their poli Maryland Athletics lifts indoor mask mandate at home games 02/28/2022 11:13pm • The University of Maryland Athletics Department ended its indoor mask policy for fans at home games Monday night. According to a news release, the decision comes in conjunction with the university's decision to lift its indoor mask mandate on campus for all faculty, staff, students and visitors. Virginia mothers have mixed reaction to rollback of mask mandates in schools 02/28/2022 07:34pm • ▶ Watch Video: Parents discuss kids wearing masks in school As more students began returning for in-person learning, schools became battlegrounds over mask mandates. But as COVID-19 cases decline, state and local authorities across the U.S. have started to roll back mask policies. S California, Oregon, Washington to drop school mask mandates 02/28/2022 07:13pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Schoolchildren in California, Oregon and Washington will no longer be required to wear masks as part of new indoor mask policies the Democratic governors of all three states announced jointly on Monday. “With declining case rates and hospitalizations across the West, Ca Montgomery Co. school board says student member subjected to 'vile' social media comments over mask stance 02/28/2022 05:17pm • The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education says its student member, Hana O'Looney, has been subjected to "vile" comments on social media after she voiced support for keeping a school mask mandate in place. Montgomery County Board of Education President Brenda Wolff told WTOP she was "app Pandemic fears are fading along with omicron: AP-NORC poll 02/28/2022 01:26pm • Omicron is fading away, and so are Americans' worries about COVID-19. As coronavirus pandemic case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths continue to plummet, fewer people now than in January say they are concerned that they will be infected after the rise and fall of the wildly contagious virus varia Hong Kong considers lockdown as daily infections top 34,000 02/28/2022 12:57pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong reported a record 34,466 new coronavirus infections Monday as deaths continued to climb, as authorities assess the possibilities of locking down the city. Hong Kong is grappling with a coronavirus surge driven primarily by the omicron variant. Daily cases have more than S. Korea drops proof of vaccine, test to aid virus response 02/28/2022 01:04am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will no longer require people to show proof of vaccination or negative tests to enter any indoor space starting Tuesday, removing a key preventive measure during a fast-developing omicron surge that's elevating hospitalizations and deaths. The Health Ministry