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Coronavirus

Inside Northern Italy's Coronavirus Tragedy: 'Normal Life Will Never Be the Same Again'

We visited the Bergamo region and talked to the doctors, medics, funeral directors, and families witnessing the devastation.
Isobel Yeung
4.15.20
labor

NBC Accused of Labor Violation Over Sleazy Union-Busting Scheme

The Writers Guild of America says NBC is renaming a nonfiction production company to avoid adhering to a labor agreement.
Laura Wagner
4.15.20
relationships

People Tell Us How Going on Video Chat First Dates Worked Out

“Typically, the night’s over, and you either go home together or go home alone. Now, it’s more nebulous; no one wants to be the first to say we should call it.”
Hannah Smothers
4.15.20
Coronavirus

Pakistan Has Banned Large Prayer Services to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe. Clerics Are Holding Them Anyway.

As Ramadan approaches, public health experts fear that crowded mosques could trigger an outbreak that would swiftly overwhelm the country’s limited healthcare infrastructure.
Tim Hume
4.15.20
Hacking

Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000

People who trade in zero-day exploits say there are two Zoom zero-days, one for Windows and one for MacOS, on the market.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
4.15.20
body

Even People Without Coronavirus Are Getting Sicker Right Now

The "collateral damage of COVID-19": People are delaying or avoiding healthcare from fear of the virus. It could lead to a surge of worsening health issues down the line.
Shayla Love
4.15.20
Donald Trump

Your Coronavirus Check Might Be Late Because Trump Just Had to Put His Name on It

“Only this president would try to make a pandemic and economic catastrophe all about him.”
Paul Blest
4.15.20
Coronavirus

Coronavirus Updates Canada: Even More Canadians Can Apply for the CERB

Canada's COVID-19 death toll by mid-April surpassed 1,000, which is higher than officials projected, and the country's GDP shrank by 9 percent in March, according to Statistics Canada.
Anya Zoledziowski
4.15.20
London Rental Opportunity of the Week

Rental Opportunity of the Week: The New Landlord Trend Defining How We Live

Welcome to the aesthetic of every refurbished flat in the UK, i.e. "What if your drug dealer made a flat in GTA?"
Joel Golby
4.15.20
DRONES

Those Colorado Mystery Drones May Actually Have Been SpaceX Satellites

Elon Musk's satellites are partly to blame for Colorado's drone panic.
MJ Banias
4.15.20
tech-science

NASA’s Plan for Sick Astronauts Is to Quarantine in Space

NASA has taken extra precautions to prevent Covid-19 from reaching the space station, but it already had a plan for an off-Earth outbreak.
Becky Ferreira
4.15.20
Coronavirus

'This Is Truly a War:' Nurses Are Staging a National Day of Protest

'There’s been an entire loss of protocols around infection control because of the shortage of supplies. Instead we’re making them up as we go along.'
Lauren Kaori Gurley
4.15.20
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