We’ve been advised to stand 6 feet apart from others to lower our risk of getting infected with the coronavirus. But how can we tell whether we’re standing just far away enough from people, or if we need to tell them to back up a little bit more? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Japan’s Prime Minister and the International Olympic Committee agreed to postpone the Summer Olympics until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak. The decision, announced Tuesday, has wide-ranging ramifications for the sports world as well as for NBC, the network that has become synonymous with the event. The Olympics, which were scheduled to take place from
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As the Olympic and Paralympic movement grapples with Tokyo 2020’s postponement amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, Mallory Weggemann understands. She is built for adaptation. “As Paralympic athletes this is our job,” Weggemann told CNN Sport. “We are constantly in a fight with our bodies and we are constantly finding ways to adapt.” On January 21,
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As the Olympic and Paralympic movement grapples with Tokyo 2020’s postponement amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, Mallory Weggemann understands. She is built for adaptation. “As Paralympic athletes this is our job,” Weggemann told CNN Sport. “We are constantly in a fight with our bodies and we are constantly finding ways to adapt.” On January 21,
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AUSTIN, Texas — Leaders in El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston and Austin on Tuesday joined a growing a list of Texas cities including Dallas and San Antonio that have ordered people to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The announcements came as Gov. Greg Abbott, who has declined to issue a statewide shelter-in-place
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A spark of good news (and joy?) out of Netflix: The streaming service has renewed “The Circle” and “Love Is Blind” and announced a new show from Marie Kondo. “The Circle,” a so-called “social experiment competition,” premiered at the start of the year, wooing viewers with a premise that combined catfishing, isolation and a $100,000
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En conferencia de prensa el presidente de Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, anunció este martes el caso 21 de coronavirus en el país. También informó que son casi 1.000 las personas que se encuentran en cuarentena supervisada, incluyendo a quienes ingresaron de manera terrestre al país. Giammattei también anunció medidas para mitigar la crisis
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Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow said he and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. “We started experiencing symptoms on Sunday—first coughs then fevers, chills, and muscle aches—and contacted our doctors on Monday,” he said in a statement to the Harvard community Tuesday. “We were tested yesterday and just received the results a few minutes
Continue Reading (CNN Health) — Los síntomas digestivos pueden ser más comunes en las infecciones por coronavirus de lo que se pensaba anteriormente: un pequeño estudio publicado la semana pasada encontró que los síntomas como la diarrea y la pérdida de apetito fueron la “queja principal” en casi la mitad de más de 200 casos confirmados de
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday vehemently disagreed with President Donald Trump’s recent suggestions to “open” the country back up for business, saying the economy will recover when the coronavirus pandemic has passed. “Well there doesn’t have to be a contradiction there. Our economy will thrive when our people are well and able to go
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Click here for updates on this story Omaha (WOWT) — When you think delivery, pizza might be one of the first foods that come to mind. Noli’s Pizza in Blackstone is working to capitalize on that with a full delivery battle plan. When it comes to getting their food to the city their plan is
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Madagascar is home to many unique species, including a variety of lemurs. But there’s one species living in the island’s forests that scientists hadn’t quite been able to figure out until now: cats. University of Colorado at Boulder anthropology professor Michelle Sauther has been studying primates and lemurs on the island nation in the Indian
Continue Reading Just four days ago, David Lat was tweeting about his coronavirus symptoms and the difficulty he had getting diagnosed. The lawyer and founder of the blog “Above the Law” was diagnosed with coronavirus after two visits to the emergency room, according to his tweets. By Saturday evening, he was on a ventilator and in a
Continue Reading Videos on YouTube will now default to standard definition for all users worldwide, a step down from the typical high definition that users normally see. The move is aimed at easing the burden on internet infrastructure as lockdowns and other emergency policies have kept millions at home. The global change, which was announced and began
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT, OR (KPTV ) — A woman is facing charges including arson after investigators say she sparked a fire inside the garbage storage area of her apartment building in Newport. Police and firefighters responded to the 4-plex apartment building in the 220 block of Northeast 3rd Street around
Continue Reading In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Antony Fauci has rapidly become America’s security blanket. The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci’s blunt, fact-based approach to the crisis — as a member of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force — has been a refreshing alternative to the President’s tendency to
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In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Antony Fauci has rapidly become America’s security blanket. The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci’s blunt, fact-based approach to the crisis — as a member of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force — has been a refreshing alternative to the President’s tendency to
Continue Reading The Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have taken swift, coordinated action to help stabilize the global economy and financial markets. They’ve dedicated trillions of dollars worth of stimulus during the coronavirus pandemic. Politicians in Washington are stepping up to the plate, too. Congress is reportedly close to approving a financial aid
Continue Reading The mayor of a Florida Panhandle city says he won’t take a salary while his city is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and will donate his paycheck to help residents pay their bills. At a news conference on Monday, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson IV said he asked the city to donate his salary to Pensacola
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS ) — As our medical professionals work to test and treat this virus, there are others working a different frontline making sure the rest of us get what we need and where we need to go. Train and bus operators help keep the city moving, even
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS ) — As our medical professionals work to test and treat this virus, there are others working a different frontline making sure the rest of us get what we need and where we need to go. Train and bus operators help keep the city moving, even
Continue Reading Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has made a political career on his unapologetic conservatism and willingness to, well, just say stuff that other politicians won’t. He was at it again on Monday night in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. On the heels of President Donald Trump beginning to suggest that the time for
Continue Reading Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters are going to have to wait a little longer to get their hands on “Chromatica.” The singer on Tuesday announced that after “a lot of deliberation,” she was postponing her album’s long-awaited release in light of the coronavirus. The release date for her sixth studio album had been set for April
Continue Reading Two YouTubers in Colorado Springs just came to the rescue of hundreds of people who hadn’t been able to find toilet paper because of coronavirus-induced shopping hysteria. Justin Stuart and Andrew Scites run MoreJStu, a YouTube channel known for “nautical nonsense” videos, stunts, pranks and challenges. Among their antics last October was buying all the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSSIER CITY, LA (KTBS ) — It’s the largest protestant denomination in the country. And here in the South, you can find Southern Baptist churches everywhere. But there were some major waves at the last Southern Baptist Convention and more could be on the way. The pastor of
Continue Reading Retailers have too much clothing and no ability to sell it all. The t-shirts, jackets, sneakers and jeans they were gearing up to push out for the spring shopping season now sit sitting in darkened stores and warehouses during the coronavirus crisis. Demand for discretionary items has come to a screeching halt as customers focus
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said she is hoping to avoid bringing the full House back to Washington to vote on the third coronavirus stimulus package, seeking to pass it instead through a process of unanimous consent, an option that would quickly advance legislation without requiring lawmakers to be present. But Democratic leaders recognize
Continue Reading Domestic air travel in the United States has virtually come to a halt, but thousands of planes are still flying. How long does it makes sense to keep doing that? Figures from the Transportation Security Administration show that only 331,000 people passed through TSA checkpoints Monday, a drop of more than 2 million passengers, or
Continue Reading WASHINGTON — With lives and the economy hanging in the balance, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is hoping the country will be reopened by Easter as he weighs how to refine nationwide social-distancing guidelines to put some workers back on the job amid the coronavirus outbreak. As many public health officials call for stricter,
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