TROY, N.Y. — Consider this scenario: A vaccine for the novel coronavirus has been developed that is 91.27% effective. If public health officials present this information using the specific number, people are likely to think the vaccine is actually less effective than if it is presented as being 90% effective. This concept is a real-life…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImagePhoenix on Friday. Arizona has almost 100,000 confirmed cases, and more than 1,800 people have died.Credit…Ash Ponders for The New York Times Phoenix has a testing crisis, and FEMA refuses to help, the mayor says. Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix said on Sunday that with cases and death counts…
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President Trump dismissed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States over the weekend, downplaying the impact of the disease and saying that while the testing of tens of millions of American had identified many cases, “99 percent” of them were “totally harmless.” His remarks about a virus that has already claimed nearly…
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The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have been saying for months: The virus lingers in the air indoors, infecting those nearby. If airborne transmission is a significant factor in the pandemic, especially in…
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From July 6 to July 8, couture houses will be exhibiting clothing and ideas in presentations — mostly in the form of short films. The coronavirus pandemic and global financial crisis has stressed the industry to the core, disrupting supply chains, workforces and travel. And yet the show, of sorts, goes on. We’ll be streaming…
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In a pre-coronavirus world, hundreds of editors, clients, stylists and celebrities would have converged on Paris this weekend, clacking over the cobblestones in their kitten heels for the couture shows. Those singular displays of fashion art — handmade clothes custom-ordered by the very few — represent equal parts creative laboratory, artisanal expertise and visual extravaganza.…
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HAMMONTON, N.J. — Workers at the largest blueberry farm in the Northeast move through the fields in small groups, fingers dancing with the speed of musicians as they pick bushes heavy with fruit. The more they gather, the more they are paid during a season that lasts only about seven weeks. Barring rain, they work…
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The directory map for the Northfield Square Mall in Bourbonnais, Ill., has three glaring spaces where large department stores once stood. Soon there will be a fourth vacancy, now that J.C. Penney is liquidating stores after filing for bankruptcy. With so much empty space and brick-and-mortar retail in the midst of seismic changes even before…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageGuests, mostly without masks, gathered for the “Salute to America” event on the South Lawn of the White House.Credit…Patrick Semansky/Associated Press With infections climbing, most Fourth of July celebrations are muted. But not in D.C. After delivering a divisive speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday night, President Trump is…
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The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have been saying for months: The virus lingers in the air indoors, infecting those nearby. If airborne transmission is a significant factor in the pandemic, especially in…
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