By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer A flood of new research suggests that far more people have had the coronavirus without any symptoms, fueling hope that it will turn out to be much less lethal than originally feared. While that’s clearly good news, it also means it’s impossible to know who around you may […]
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Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) Weekly COVID-19 Update
Keeping you Informed As the City of Baltimore continues to respond to COVID-19 under the leadership of Mayor Young, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) is working to ensure that critical information is available in multiple languages. For multilingual up-to-date information regarding the city’s response, follow us on Facebook. In addition, MIMA has been […]
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Georgia To Reopen Some Businesses As Early As Friday
By JEFF AMY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor announced plans Monday to restart the state’s economy before the end of the week, saying many businesses that closed to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus could reopen as early as Friday. The governor in neighboring Tennessee planned to let businesses in most of his state begin […]
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Losing Face: The Rise Of The Mask, and What’s Lost Behind It
By TED ANTHONY, AP National Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — On Saturday afternoons, the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh becomes a jam-packed hub of old-fashioned shopping. People stride along Penn Avenue, hopping from greengrocer to butcher to fishmonger to Italian market, smiling and gesturing and jabbering as they go. Not this weekend. As strange, spaced-out lines formed outside […]
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EXCLUSIVE LIVESTREAM: Cosby Spokesman, ‘Bill Cosby Will Not Survive COVID-19 With His Underlying Medical Issues’
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Around the Fall of 2019, actor and comedian Bill Cosby was forced to have two major surgeries in-order to sustain his life (prevent him from having a stroke and/or heart attack). During a visit to the infirmary at SCI-Phoenix for high blood pressure issues, Mr. Cosby was informed that the carotid arteries […]
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Reverence For Britain’s NHS Complicates Supply Shortages
By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Dr. Meenal Viz cut a solitary figure as she staged a one-woman protest outside the prime minister’s Downing Street residence. She held a hand-lettered placard bearing a simple message: “Protect Healthcare Workers.” But she wasn’t truly alone. Four weeks after the British government ordered most people to […]
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Nations Seek To Ease Nursing Home Loneliness Yet Keep Safe
By RAF CASERT and ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes just wanted to do the humane thing. After so many frail and elderly nursing home residents had been held in seclusion from their loved ones in the first weeks of the lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Wilmes […]
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Massachusetts Becomes Coronavirus Hot Spot As Cases Surge
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press Massachusetts has become a hot spot of coronavirus infections, drawing the concern of federal officials and promises of aid from hard-hit New York as the state’s death toll prepares to double in less than a week. Deaths from COVID-19 are expected to surpass 2,000 this week in Massachusetts, where […]
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COMMENTARY: The Political and Healthcare System is Broken and Corrupt in America
By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor “History is bound to repeat itself. Look at what went wrong in 1918 (Spanish Flu). Then do the opposite,” says the History Channel. President Woodrow Wilson was the American President in 1918, when 675,000 Americans died as a result of the Spanish Flu and over 20 to 50 million […]
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Some US Manufacturers Reopening Amid Fierce Political Heat
By COLLEEN LONG, GENE JOHNSON and MIKE CORDER, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing and at least one other U.S. heavy-equipment manufacturer resumed production and some states rolled out aggressive reopening plans Monday, despite nationwide concerns there is not enough testing yet to keep the coronavirus from rebounding. Boeing said it was putting about 27,000 […]
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AFRO Exclusive Op-ed: Essential, Addiction-for-Profit
By Will Jones Nonessential businesses have been shut down nationwide but there are reports of long lines outside of liquor and cannabis stores because they’ve been deemed essential. I’m not here to argue that one way or another. I’m in my 30s, but while I was diagnosed with and was fighting the coronavirus, one of […]
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WHO Head Warns Worst of Virus is Still Ahead
By The Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief warned Monday that “the worst is yet ahead of us” in the coronavirus outbreak, reviving the alarm just as many countries ease restrictive measures aimed at reducing its spread. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus didn’t specify why he believes the outbreak that has […]