MARCH 6, 2020
It's a "false hope" that COVID-19 will be seasonal and subside in the summer, like the flu, the World Health Organization said Friday.
"We have to assume that the virus will continue to have the capacity to spread," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's health emergencies program, said at the agency's headquarters in Geneva. "It's a false...
MARCH 6, 2020
Alphabet CEO - Sundar Pichai. - CNBC
Alphabet's top executives are urging employees to stay motivated to run Google's global infrastructure amid coronavirus fears.
"As our company manages this issue, it's important to remember that millions of people and companies around the world are relying on us," chief financial officer Ruth Porat wrote to employees in an internal...
MARCH 5, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, pictured in February, urged residents not to panic as he announced the states first three cases of coronavirus tests. - Steve Ruark/AP
As COVID-19 spreads in the U.S., Maryland health officials are the latest to announce that a handful of Montgomery County residents have tested positive for the virus that causes it.
Gov. Larry...
MARCH 5, 2020
Daylight saving time in 2020 begins this Saturday, March 8. That means the days will finally start getting longer and the light will stick around even later—but it also means we'll lose an hour of precious sleep (something one-third of U.S. adults already aren't getting enough of, according to the CDC). Springing forward with the clocks can...
MARCH 5, 2020
Trump later put the number at less than 1%. President Donald Trump at coronavirus briefing in Bethesda, Maryland, on Mar. 3, 2020. - Evan Vucci/AP
WASHINGTON – The World Health Organization reported this week that the death rate for the coronavirus increased to 3.4% and is more lethal than the flu, which kills tens of thousands of Americans each year.
But...
MARCH 5, 2020
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the government's coronavirus task force, addresses the news at 3M's company headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota on March 5.
Scientists believe there are at least two different strains of the COVID-19 virus causing illnesses.
A preliminary study conducted at Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institute Pasteur of Shanghai discovered that...
MARCH 4, 2020
Stocks surged on Wednesday as major victories from former Vice President Joe Biden during Super Tuesday sparked a massive rally within the health care sector.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 622 points higher, or 2.4%. The S&P 500 jumped 2% while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.8%.
The major averages also got a boost from strong economic data. The...
MARCH 4, 2020
Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg holds a press conference in his campaign office in the Little Havana area of Miami, Fla., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. - Toni L. Sandys/WashPost
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York who had hoped to self-fund his way to the Democratic presidential nomination but was spurned by voters in Tuesday’s balloting, has...
MARCH 4, 2020
Since Monday, new cases of confirmed coronavirus infection in Delhi, Hyderabad and Jaipur have led to a series of precautionary measures by government and school authorities, and panic particularly among residents of the National Capital Region. Much of the panic has been spread by alarmist messages via WhatsApp.
What actions are safe or unsafe, and what measures are...
MARCH 3, 2020
A wash out at the Sydney Showgrounds ensured South Africa would top group B and so play Australia in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup at the SCG on Thursday evening, after England meet group A's pace-setters India in the first semi-final.
Rain that halted Thailand's earlier clash with Pakistan did not abate into the evening,...
