[The Guardian, Getty Images] Wisconsin’s supreme court struck down the state’s stay-at-home order on Wednesday, and some residents took immediate advantage – by packing the bars. Videos and reports from some areas of Wisconsin showed some bars filled with revelers, most of them not wearing masks. A tweet from Nick’s Bar in Platteville, […]
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[Newsweek, Getty Images] Researchers have investigated the benefits of taking vitamin D and fish oil supplements. A stock image shows a range of supplements. As the number of COVID-19 cases passes four million, scientists are scrambling to find out everything they can about the virus to develop ways of preventing […]
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[The Associated Press] BRUSSELS (AP) — New coronavirus clusters have surfaced around the world as nations struggle to balance reopening economies and preventing a second wave of infections, while a top global health official warned Wednesday that COVID-19 could be around for a long time. Authorities in the Chinese city […]
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[CNN] The US coronavirus death toll passed 80,000, far and away the most reported deaths of any country in the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.America marked that grim death toll Monday as almost every state, except for Connecticut and Massachusetts, have made plans to partially reopen some businesses.In […]
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[The New York Times, Chris Carlson/Associated Press] At least 28,100 residents and workers have died from the coronavirus at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities for older adults in the United States, according to a New York Times database. The virus so far has infected more than 153,000 at […]
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[CNN] Fauci starting ‘modified quarantine’ after exposure (CNN)Coronavirus infection and hospitalization rates in New York are down to where they were nearly two months ago, and parts of the state will be able to reopen on Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.In the past day, 488 coronavirus patients were admitted […]
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[Business Insider, Bettmann Archive/Getty Images] These surprisingly relevant vintage ads show how officials tried to convince people to wear masks after many refused during the 1918 flu pandemic Mask-wearing was enforced during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, but many refused, citing the government mandates as threats to their civil liberties. […]
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[Washington Post] The pandemic’s devastating economic toll came into sharp focus Friday, via grim data about the U.S. workforce: More than 20 million jobs disappeared from payrolls in April — wiping out a decade of gains in a single month as the unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent, highest since the […]
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[USA TODAY] The U.S. economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April and the unemployment rate soared to 14.7% — both record highs — laying bare the starkest picture yet of the crippling gut-punch delivered by the coronavirus pandemic. In just a month, the historically dismal performance abruptly wiped away nearly all the nation’s […]
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[THE ATLANTIC] So far, all available evidence suggests that few Americans were infected in the first weeks of the year. It would be next to impossible to find out who they were. There is no doubt that the coronavirus was spreading in the United States in January. We can at […]
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