[aggregation-styles] Independent A scientific advisor on the 2011 film Contagion, which has soared in popularity since the outbreak of coronavirus, has said people should have taken the movie “much more seriously." Contagion, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon, imagines a global epidemic that originates in Hong Kong and results...
How the Senate Paved the Way for Coronavirus Profiteering, and How Congress Could Undo It
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Before a vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic is within view, the Trump administration has already walked back its initial refusal to promise that any remedy would be affordable to the general public. “We can’t control that price because we need the private sector to invest,” Alex...
Where That $8.3 Billion In US Coronavirus Funding Will And Won't Go
[aggregation-styles] NPR The coronavirus funding bill signed into law by the president Friday puts much more money toward treating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 than his administration requested from Congress last week. The Trump administration's initial request — in the form of a two-page letter to Congress on Feb....
How Does the Coronavirus Outbreak End?
[aggregation-styles] Vox In late January, I posed a simple question to several experts in public health and epidemiology: How does the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak end? Back then, the virus was still mainly just spreading in China, and the scientists I spoke with outlined a hopeful scenario: containment. The idea is...
No Fans, No Fun: Athletes Uneasy Over Empty-Arena Solutions
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As U.S. sports leagues weigh whether to bar fans from ballparks and stadiums to help stall the coronavirus outbreak, San Francisco Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija is one of the few players who can tell them exactly what that feels like. “It’s not very fun,” he said. Samardzija...
Virus Closes Sites Around the World; Stocks, Oil Prices Sink
SOAVE, Italy — Fear over the new coronavirus epidemic sent global stock markets and oil prices plunging Monday, touched off prison riots in Italy and caused a cascading shutdown of sites and events ranging from Saudi schools to a Holocaust march. While many of Beijing's white-collar workers returned to work...
Thousands Prepare to Get Off Ship Hit by Virus in Oakland
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal and state officials in Oakland prepared to receive thousands of people Monday from a cruise ship that has been idling off the coast of San Francisco with at least 21 people aboard infected with the coronavirus. Personnel covered head to toe in protective gear woke up...
Homeless at 'Double Risk' of Getting, Spreading Coronavirus
SALEM, Ore. — They often don't have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and crowd together in grimy camps. That's what makes homeless people particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. Almost 200,000 people live in those conditions in the United States, according to a White House report, with...
21 Positive for Coronavirus on Cruise Ship Off California
SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast tested positive for the new coronavirus, including 19 crew members, Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday, amid evidence the vessel was the breeding ground for a deadly cluster of more than 10 cases during its previous...
US Job Market Looked Robust Before Virus Outbreak Escalated
WASHINGTON — Hiring in the United States jumped in February as employers added 273,000 positions, evidence that the job market was in strong shape before the coronavirus began to sweep through the nation. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate fell to 3.5% last month, matching a 50-year low, down...