Getty Images After eight long months, many of us read the gloomy coronavirus headlines these days through a certain numbness. For better or worse, we seem to be getting used to the dramatic death tolls, the suffocating restrictions, the mounting job losses and the ugly politics. But how about when …
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• U.S. added record 4.2 million COVID-19 cases in November • Osterholm says there’s light at the end of tunnel in form of promising vaccines • Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton tests positive • Vietnam records its first case of local transmission in almost three months The U.S. set a …
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Target is looking forward to Cyber Week as many shoppers plan to buy their gifts online this year due to COVID-19 Target States that had tighter restrictions on Thanksgiving Day gatherings saw higher online sales than those with more lax rules, according to the latest data from Adobe Inc. ADBE, …
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The election of Joe Biden as president has increased confidence among Democrats, but not enough to counter growing worries about the record spike in coronavirus cases. alex edelman/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The numbers: Consumer confidence fell in November to a three-month low after a record wave of coronavirus cases spurred some …
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The global case tally of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 climbed above 57 million on Friday, and the U.S. moved closer to 200,000 cases in a day while setting a fresh record for hospitalizations as the virus continues to infect people in every state and region. There was disappointing news on …
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The Pentagon in Washington D.C. Getty Images/iStockphoto Anthony Tata, a retired Army general who was recently named a top Pentagon official, has tested positive for the coronavirus, Bloomberg News reported Thursday night. Tata has been performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for policy since last week, after Defense …
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The head of the World Health Organization has praised a developing country for its success in handling the coronavirus pandemic on Friday and urged others to re-evaluate their approaches to health care: “ ‘Thailand is an excellent example that, with a whole-of-government, whole-of-society, comprehensive approach, this virus can be contained …
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The U.S. economy is recovering but there’s still a long way before it comes back to even. With the overhang of the presidential election largely behind us, Congress should quickly pass another stimulus bill. Although U.S. GDP rose 7.4% in the third quarter of 2020, the economy is still more …
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A previous version misstated the time span of the 57% increase in average cases; it was since two weeks ago. A medical staff member treats a patient suffering from COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston on Oct. 31. Getty Images The U.S. has …
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