Amid the uncertainty swirling around the coronavirus pandemic stands one incontrovertible fact: The highest rate of fatalities is among older people, particularly those with underlying medical conditions. Of the confirmed cases in China to date, nearly 15 percent of patients over 80 have died. For those under 50, the death rate was well below 1…
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MADRID — Faced with a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, Spain on Saturday became the second country in Europe to impose sweeping restrictions on the public, telling everyone to stay indoors, with limited exceptions. The government said people could leave their homes to buy food, to go to work if they cannot work remotely, to…
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AT&T, Comcast and dozens of other telecommunications firms have committed to not disconnecting service to residential and small business customers who can’t pay their bills because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday. The pledge the companies plan to implement also calls for them to open public Wi-Fi hot spots and…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageA former Econo Lodge motel that is being used by King County, Wash., to isolate people who might have been exposed to the coronavirus.Credit…Andrew Burton for The New York Times The coronavirus spreads to 49 states, and the House passes a sweeping relief package. As the coronavirus continues to…
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Among the many lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how close humans are to the rest of the animal kingdom. We get diseases from other animals, and then we use more animals to figure out how to stop the diseases. As research ramp up treatments and vaccines, animals are crucial to fighting the pandemic. There…
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On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they…
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Here’s what you need to know: Nancy Pelosi and the White House reached a deal on a sweeping relief package. ImageSpeaker Nancy Pelosi highlighted the urgency of testing while discussing an emergency spending package she said the House would vote on on Friday.Credit…Samuel Corum for The New York Times Congress and the White House struck…
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For two fleeting decades, there was no status symbol more potent than the milk mustache. The California Milk Processor Board’s “Got Milk?” campaign stretched across nearly 350 print advertisements and more than 70 television commercials featuring some of the most famous people in America: Beyoncé and Tina Knowles. Serena and Venus Williams. Harrison Ford. Angelina…
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The day after Samantha Schneider’s best friend died of complications from breast cancer, Sean Corley came into Ms. Schneider’s life. His arrival, in September 2016, was no coincidence. “Two months before I met Sean, my best friend told me that she heard all the nurses talking about the dating app Bumble,” said Ms. Schneider, 33,…
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When Jacob Wang saw reports circulating online recently suggesting that life was getting better in Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, he was irate. Mr. Wang, a journalist for a state-run newspaper in China, knew that Wuhan was still in crisis — he had traveled there to chronicle the failures of the government firsthand.…
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