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TANGIER, Va. ¨C At just over one square mile, tiny Tangier, home to less than 500 people, sits surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.No roads can get you there. The easiest way to travel to the island is via one of the daily ferries, popular with adventurous day trippers, who want a peek at how people have lived here for centuries.¡°It's all about the seafood,¡± said Mayor James Eskridge, better known by his nickname, Ooker. ¡°It's a close-knit community.¡±That closeness, though, became a potential threat earlier this year, when the coronavirus began spreading throughout the country.¡°We were like most of the country: we were didn't know what it was going to amount to, how dangerous it was, how you would hear one thing about it and you would hear something else and so people were worried,¡± Eskridge said.They were especially worried because more than 40% of the people who live on Tangier are elderly, a population vulnerable to the virus. What¡¯s more, there¡¯s only a small clinic on the island and no full-time doctor.So, they made a few tough choices.The ferry services temporarily shut down, effectively isolating the island, and so did another thing at the heart of life there.On the island, church is everything. Right after the coronavirus outbreak began in March, they stopped services for months and that may have been what helped keep the virus at bay.So far, there have been zero coronavirus cases on the island.¡°It's like one big family here. Your problem is my problem,¡± said Nancy Creedle, a parishioner at the island¡¯s Swain Memorial Methodist Church, who also works in the church office.She said people took the virus seriously and though church services started up again, there have been some changes.¡°We marked the pews and people had to wear masks,¡± Creedle said.Being socially distant doesn¡¯t come naturally there, but they¡¯re trying.¡°Tangier, just like the country, you need to be cautious, but you can't completely shut down because I think that would do more harm than the virus itself,¡± Eskridge said.The island is back open for business. Ferry services started up again in mid-June, with an average less than 50 people visiting a day. With summer winding down, some tourist spots are now closed and others didn¡¯t open at all this summer season.¡°All in all, it¡¯s been a strange summer,¡± Eskridge said. ¡°We're having tourists come in, but it's down a lot.¡±Since most visitors only come for the day and don¡¯t spend the night there, island residents think that may be part of the patchwork of decisions and circumstances keeping them COVID-free.Yet, some folks also think something else might be at work, too.¡°The people, well, they were very precautious, too,¡± Creedle said, ¡°but I think the Lord has kept us safe.¡±Credit given to a higher power, they said, in the face of uncertainty. 2826

Statement from Stephen Miller: ¡°Over the last 5 days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative every day through yesterday. Today, I tested positive for COVID-19 and am in quarantine."¡ª Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 6, 2020 255

Tenants and landlords around the country have been on a roller coaster ride with the eviction moratorium ordered by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in September. The mandate protecting tenants was put in place last month by the CDC after President Donald Trump signed an executive order. However, within days, landlords pushed back, filing several lawsuits against the CDC. As the lawsuits are being fought, the CDC is quietly rolling back its initial eviction protection through new guidance it put out last week.¡°The changes created new burdens for renters to have to meet and created some holes in the protection that those renters need,¡±said Dian Yentel.Yentel is with the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. NLIHC is an organization concerned about the new burden renters now face to prove their financial distress, but also over this new bit of information released in the CDC latest guidance. That new bit clarifies, for landlords, that they can proceed with filing evictions.¡°Landlords can file evictions and courts can essentially take every step in the eviction process up to actually removing somebody from their home,¡± added Yentel.¡±That has a significant impact and ultimately will mean more low-income people leaving their homes before the moratorium even expires.¡±Yentel explained many tenants do not want to go through an eviction process and tend to move out before the court-ordered eviction date under pressure. Some will move in with friends or family, potentially crowding homes and putting even more people at greater risk for catching COVID-19.The National Apartment Association, which attached itself to the lawsuits against the CDC, cautions the new guidelines aren¡¯t as big of a victory as they may seem for landlords. They do not put landlords much closer to recovering back rent, what a report by Stout Risius Ross estimates to be - billion.¡°I think the guideline put out by the CDC provide a path forward, I still maintain that the guidelines are a half step to a solution,¡± said Bob Pennigar, who heads the NAA.A full step, he said, would be a solution that helps landlords and tenants. Interestingly enough, advocates on both sides have found some common ground there. Both have called for stimulus money allocated for rent.¡°We still need to have a stimulus act that will provide direct rental assistance,¡± said Pinnegar.¡°At least 100 billion dollars in emergency rental assistance,¡± added Yentel.However, Congress has the last say in what will be included in a stimulus package and whether there will even be another one. Both the House and Senate have been unable to agree on a new stimulus measure for months, and it¡¯s becoming less clear if or when they will. It is however, more likely that a court will rule on whether to uphold the eviction moratorium or not, before then. 2842

The banana phone is back.A startup that licenses the Nokia phone brand has unveiled a new version of the 8110, a curved mobile phone that was first released in 1996 and featured in "The Matrix."The phone, which is offered in banana yellow and black, will sell for €79 (). It comes loaded with a new version of the game Snake, Finnish startup HMD said in a statement."This is a return to the glory years of Nokia," said Ian Fogg, senior analyst at IHS Markit. "But it also includes all the new technology."The 8110 comes with 4G, and a handful of apps including Google Maps, Facebook and Twitter. But it doesn't have a flashy operating system and users won't be able to download other popular apps.Fogg said that basic -- or "feature" -- phones are appealing because they are reliable, and can run for a long time on a single charge. The 8110 goes 25 days in standby mode, for example.Nokia used to be the world's largest maker of mobile phones, but it struggled to adapt to the era of smartphones and compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung.Microsoft purchased the company's handset business in 2013, but later unwound the deal. Nokia now focuses on making technology for telecommunications networks.HMD, which has licensed the Nokia brand since 2016, sold over 70 million handsets in 2017, according to IHS. That puts its sales, on an annualized basis, in the same league as Sony and Lenovo."HMD's strategy clearly aims to return Nokia to be a mobile market leader, even if it's too early for HMD to realistically target displacing Samsung or Apple," Fogg said.Nokia marketed the original 8110 as "the first of its kind in terms of its ergonomics." Its battery lasted up to six days, and it was able to store 16 ring tones and up to 324 names and numbers."It feels good in the hand and fits into any pocket. The revolutionary curved design fits the natural shape of your face," the company said in a press release at the time.  1948

Swishing with mouthwash can help freshen that mask breath, and, new research suggests, reduce the amount of coronavirus in the mouth and may help reduce the spread of the virus.Physicians and scientists at the Penn State College of Medicine studied the effect of rinsing with a neti pot, peroxide sore-mouth cleansers, mouthwashes and a 1 percent solution of baby shampoo, which is often used by head and neck doctors to rinse the sinuses. All of the products are currently available to consumers, many over-the-counter.They found several of the nasal and oral rinses had ¡°a strong ability to neutralize human coronavirus, which suggests that these products may have the potential to reduce the amount of virus spread by people who are COVID-19 positive,¡± the college said in a written statement.Researchers used human coronaviruses that are similar to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus strain that causes COVID-19. The ¡°outer envelopes of the human coronavirus tested and SARS-CoV-2 are genetically similar,¡± the researchers stated.¡°While we wait for a vaccine to be developed, methods to reduce transmission are needed,¡± said Craig Meyers, the professor who led the study. ¡°The products we tested are readily available and often already part of people¡¯s daily routines.¡±The study looked at the effectiveness of the various products when they interact with a solution containing a strain of human coronavirus at intervals of 30 seconds, one minute and two minutes.The 1 percent baby shampoo solution inactivated more than 99.9 percent of the human coronavirus after being in contact for two minutes. The mouthwash and gargle products were also 99.9 percent effective in inactivating the human coronavirus, but after only 30 seconds of contact.The findings from Penn State College of Medicine add to findings earlier this year that showed certain types of oral rinses could inactivate SARS-CoV-2.Meyers said the next step in this line of research is to evaluate products like mouthwashes in COVID-19 positive patients to see if they reduce the viral load.The study¡¯s results were published this week in the Journal of Medical Virology. 2137

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