Dr. Arturo Casadevall was working from home in Baltimore on Thursday when his phone started to buzz with messages from colleagues. The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had just announced during a White House press briefing that the agency was investigating the possibility of using blood plasma donated […]
Daily Archives: March 20, 2020
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The normally bustling streets of New York City and San Francisco are eerily quiet with only a few people walking or taking the subway. And that sight is quickly replicating across the United States. Millions of people stayed home to avoid contracting or spreading the virus as reported cases grew […]
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish singer Beatriz Berodia is helping to banish the coronavirus blues with a nightly concert from her balcony to entertain her neighbors in locked-down Madrid. Berodia, known as “Betta”, is acccompanied by her guitar-playing partner Andrea Capalbo on the adjacent balcony in the capital’s Lavapies district. A […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea’s military said, calling the action “highly inappropriate” given the global coronavirus pandemic. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides artillery fire competition in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central […]
(Reuters) – Usain Bolt’s long time coach called on Friday for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be put off until 2021 as the Covid-19 Coronavirus continues to claim lives around the world. FILE PHOTO: World record holder and Olympic Champion Usain Bolt jokes with his coach Glen Mills during warm-ups […]
The first case of Covid-19 in the United States appeared in Seattle, Washington on 21 January. source: bbc.com
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. The outbreak of COVID-19 — the new coronavirus that originated in China and has claimed more than 4,000 lives in the past three months — has led companies to implement work from home policies, and […]
A hospital nurse in Michigan says she and her colleagues have discussed bringing in bleach to make their own disinfectant wipes. A pregnant nurse in Ohio says she has no choice but to tend to critically ill patients without a specialized N95 mask. And a health care worker in Georgia […]
Ken Zurek, 63, poses for a photo at his home in Highland, Ind. Zurek and his wife arrived in China days before news broke of the coronavirus. They cut their trip short because of the virus and decided to self quarantine themselves in their Highland home for 15 days, just […]
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of New York and ordered federal assistance to be given. New York City is closing all non-essential businesses from Sunday. NYC accounts for almost a third of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases. More states followed New York […]
The head of USA Swimming urged the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signaling the first fissure between powerful American factions attempting to maneuver the US team through the coronavirus crisis. CEO Tim Hinchey sent a letter Friday to his counterpart […]
PP: “Pulling up to the classic horror-movie motel to find nobody there was unnerving. I checked reception, expecting to at least have some sassy lady who can’t be arsed with her job to give me a nod of the head. I got nothing. There was nobody there. I mooched around, […]
One program the coronavirus hasn’t forced a screeching halt to is NBC’s “The Voice.” By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer March 20, 2020, 5:50 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — One program the coronavirus hasn’t forced a screeching halt to is NBC’s “The Voice.” John Legend, one of the […]
Sam Smith is finding the self-quarantine aspect of the worldwide coronavirus particularly challenging. Page Six picked up on a post recently from the singer-songwriter in which he jokingly revealed three different pictures designed to show the three stages of the average self-quarantiner’s psychology. On Thursday, Sam dropped three posts along […]
Bella Hadidis using her celebrity status and a burrito as a way to inform people of the importance of social distancing as the coronavirus continues to spread. Multiple celebrities have shared their own messages of encouragement on social media, but Bella is taking things up a notch with her Instagram […]
Nick Nguyen noticed that, for once, the traffic didn’t seem so bad in Southern California. Then he got closer to the entrance of his local Costco store in San Diego. “It was over a mile long,” said Nguyen, 25, who shared a video of the grocery line on Reddit. “It […]
LOS ANGELES — While California awoke Friday to the reality of a near lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, it was business as usual for Rick Curnutt and his family, who were hunkered down in China during the early days of the outbreak and spent two weeks in self-quarantine […]
(Reuters) – Lyft Inc on Friday told drivers they could sign up for work driving deliveries under a new service as ride-hailing demand plummets during the rapid spread of coronavirus in the United States. FILE PHOTO: The Lyft Driver Hub is seen in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 20, 2019. […]
Zoom has become the default social platform for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing social distancing during the new coronavirus pandemic. But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they’re looking for Zooms to disrupt. They are jumping into […]