Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images A mural dedicated to all Italian medical workers depicting a nurse cradling Italy and reading ‘To All Of You… Thank You!’, on a wall of Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy. Bergamo is the epicenter of Italy’s hardest-hit region, Lombardy. The Italian government continues to enforce …
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My brother-in-law, John Velasquez, is an ER doctor on the front lines of the response to COVID-19. He just finished a series of night shifts at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Florida and is heading north for a week working at St. Luke’s University Health Network in New Jersey. I …
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Buying every roll of toilet paper in sight? Enjoying beer pong on your favorite spring break beach? Can’t be bothered to wash your hands or cover up when you cough or sneeze? Then you just might be a: ‘Covidiot.’ The term has emerged as a catchall for those misbehaving during …
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Dear Readers, That’s usually the other way around. Normally, readers ask me a question. But this is a time we can figure out what we can do for each other. While more people are working remotely and avoiding public transportation due to the coronavirus, not everyone has the luxury of …
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Joe Gawronski said concerns about the coronavirus outbreak really hit home on March 13. “Our attitude has changed markedly since Friday,” he said of his family’s reaction to the viral outbreak of COVID-19. The president of New York brokerage firm Rosenblatt Securities lives in Summit, N.J., a suburb a little …
Read More »Trump halts interest payments on student loan debts during coronavirus pandemic
One part of President Donald Trump’s answer to the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is a freeze on collecting interest on student loan payments. “It’s a big thing for a lot of students left in the middle right now,” Trump said Friday afternoon in a Rose Garden address declaring …
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