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Remittances: They Crossed Oceans to Lift Their Families Out of Poverty. Now, They Need Help.

Mon, 2020-07-27 13:56 — mike kraft

...Around the globe, the pandemic has jeopardized a vital artery of finance supporting hundreds of millions of families — so-called remittances sent home from wealthy countries by migrant workers. As the coronavirus has sent economies into lockdown, sowing joblessness, people accustomed to taking care of relatives at home have lost their paychecks, forcing some to depend on those who have depended on them.

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World's largest virus test gets underway in the U.S.

Mon, 2020-07-27 10:37 — mike kraft

Virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government -- one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race. There’s still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed YahooNews

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Does Contact Tracing Work? South Korea shows it does.

Sun, 2020-07-26 16:21 — mike kraft

Does Contact Tracing Work? South Korea Proves It Does In May, when a coronavirus outbreak hit nightclubs in the South Korean capital of Seoul, health officials quickly unleashed their version of the Navy Seals -- elite teams of epidemiologists, database specialists and laboratory technicians. Heesu Lee Bloomberg.com

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Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine

Sat, 2020-07-25 21:29 — mike kraft

On June 26, a small South San Francisco company called Vaxart made a surprise announcement: A coronavirus vaccine it was working on had been selected by the U.S. government to be part of Operation Warp Speed, the flagship federal initiative to quickly develop drugs to combat Covid-19.

Vaxart’s shares soared. Company insiders, who weeks earlier had received stock options worth a few million dollars, saw the value of those awards increase sixfold. And a hedge fund that partly controlled the company walked away with more than $200 million in instant profits.

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How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers

Sat, 2020-07-25 11:18 — mike kraft

How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers Viewed in isolation or presented without context, coronavirus numbers don’t always give an accurate picture of how the pandemic is being handled. Here, ProPublica journalists Caroline Chen and Ash… ProPublica

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New British study identifies 6 different types of COVID-19

Sat, 2020-07-25 09:54 — mike kraft

Study identifies 6 different "types" of COVID-19 The six categories are defined by different clusters of symptoms, and some patients in some groups are much more likely to need ventilators. YahooNews

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Coronavrius cases hit record numbers in every global region-Reuters

Sat, 2020-07-25 09:09 — mike kraft

Record numbers of coronavirus cases in every global region: Reuters tally Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world. Jane Wardell U.S.

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What's known and not known about the impact of the panedemic on children

Fri, 2020-07-24 20:59 — mike kraft

Here's what COVID-19 does to a child's body As schools prepare to reopen, experts weigh in on whether youth protects against the virus, and how readily kids can spread it to adults. Science

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CDC survey indicates even younger Covid-19 victims have prolonged problems.

Fri, 2020-07-24 17:03 — mike kraft

Covid-19 can be a prolonged illness, even for young adults, CDC report says Covid-19 can be a prolonged illness, even among young adults without underlying chronic medical conditions, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed by the agency said they still weren't back to their usual good health even two to three weeks after testing positive for the disease. Jen Christensen, CNN CNN

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Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus --Reuters

Fri, 2020-07-24 11:07 — mike kraft

Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus Reuters maps all places where COVID-19 cases have been confirmed. Gurman Bhatia Reuters

At least 633,560 people globally have died from COVID-19 and 15,597,658 have been infected by the novel coronavirus that causes it, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December. The World Health Organization referred to it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.