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NZ Vanquished Coronavirus. It's Setting Its Sights on HIV

There have been no new cases for a week

(Newser) - New Zealand on Friday had all but eradicated the coronavirus from its shores with just one person in the nation of 5 million known to be still infected. The country's health authorities have not found any new virus cases for a week. Of the 1,504 people who were...

Democrats Say Republican Lawmaker Hid COVID Diagnosis

Uproar at the Pennsylvania General Assembly

(Newser) - Democratic members of Pennsylvania's state legislature say their Republican colleagues withheld crucial coronavirus information—including one GOP lawmaker's positive diagnosis. Rep. Andrew Lewis tested positive for COVID-19 on May 20, and at least one of his Republican colleagues was asked, the following day, to self-quarantine for 14 days...

Cuomo: Stores Can Require Masks
New York Stores
Can Require Masks
May 28, 2020 6:14 PM CDT

New York Stores Can Require Masks

Chris Rock, Rosie Perez help governor make his point

(Newser) - With an executive order, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given retail stores the OK to refuse admittance to anyone not wearing a mask. Shoppers "don't have the right" to expose a store owner to the virus, the governor said in his press briefing Thursday, CBS reports. He...

COVID-19 Toll Climbs Among Health Workers

Nearly 300 have died, and more than 60K have been infected

(Newser) - US health care workers have been praised as the heroes in this pandemic. But they're also the victims. COVID-19 has killed almost 300 of them, NPR reports. CDC data also show that more than 60,000 health care workers have been infected with the coronavirus. "It is underreported,...

Boston Gives Up on This Year's Marathon

Organizers already had postponed but couldn't solve social distancing requirement

(Newser) - Organizers canceled the Boston Marathon on Thursday for the first time in its history, bowing to the social distancing requirements of the coronavirus outbreak and ending a 124-year run that had persisted through two World Wars, a volcanic eruption, and even another pandemic. The race, which draws a field of...

Chinese Spokesman Now Has a Label on His Tweets

'Get the facts' caution is the same message added to Trump's posts

(Newser) - More than two months after it was posted, an accusation by a Chinese government spokesman has received a "Get the facts" label from Twitter—the same caution that was added to a couple of President Trump's tweets this week. Zhao Lijian of the foreign ministry had tweeted , "...

Trump Acknowledges 100K COVID Deaths

President takes note of 'sad milestone' in US

(Newser) - The confirmed US death toll from COVID-19 reached 100,000 on Wednesday, and President Trump took notice of the stat on Thursday: "We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000," Trump tweeted . "To all of the families & friends...

Japan Theme Parks Can Reopen, But Screaming Is Banned

Haunted house ghosts should maintain social distancing, according to new guidelines

(Newser) - Riders may soon be able to enjoy the terrifying Takabashi ride at Japan's Fuji-Q Highland amusement park again—but they will be urged to wear masks and refrain from screaming during its 121-degree drop. The country's theme park operators have released new guidelines for reopening as Japan eases...

Salvadoran President Says 'Most Leaders' Take Drug

'We have been advised to take' hydroxychloroquine, Nayib Bukele says

(Newser) - El Salvador's president says he's taking hydroxychloroquine—and says most of the world's other leaders are doing the same. "I use it as a prophylaxis. President Trump uses it as a prophylaxis. Most of the world's leaders use it as a prophylaxis," Nayib Bukele...

Millions More Jobless in US, but a Small Bright Spot

Layoffs are slowing as businesses start to reopen, rehire workers

(Newser) - Roughly 2.1 million people applied for US unemployment benefits last week, a sign that companies are still slashing jobs in the face of a deep recession even as more businesses reopen and rehire some laid-off employees. About 41 million people have now applied for aid since the virus outbreak...

Increasingly, the Word 'Airborne' Is Being Used for Coronavirus

We need to stop 'ignoring' this form of transmission, experts say

(Newser) - For months, experts have offered all sorts of warnings about how the coronavirus is transmitted via droplets—large respiratory droplets, produced via coughing, sneezing, or talking, that can land in nearby people's mouths and noses, be inhaled in their respiratory tracts, or get on their hands after landing on...

He Got a Job in Amazon's Hiring Spree, Died 2 Weeks Later

Fellow workers weren't told about COVID-19 infection

(Newser) - A 63-year-old California man offered a position at an Amazon delivery center during the company's March hiring spree saw it as a chance to earn some money and avoid dipping into his savings. He died from the coronavirus two weeks after he started work. Family members say Walnut resident...

Republicans Sue to Stop House Voting by Proxy

First-ever proxy votes were cast Wednesday

(Newser) - It was a day for the history books on Capitol Hill: For the first time, House lawmakers voted by proxy, an unprecedented move to avoid the risks of travel to Washington during the pandemic. To mark Wednesday's history-making moment, House Republicans sued to stop the Democratic majority's new...

Pandemic Made StubHub Buy the 'Worst Deal in History'

Co-founder bought company back just in time for business to collapse

(Newser) - People who balked at paying inflated ticket prices for concerts and sporting events before the pandemic might find some schadenfreude in Eric Baker's tale of woe. Noah Kirsch at Forbes takes a look at how Baker's triumphant acquisition of StubHub turned sour with dizzying speed. Baker co-founded the...

US Hits Milestone the Nation Was Dreading

But even 100K deaths is considered a vast underestimation

(Newser) - The US surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths, the AP reports. That number is the best estimate and most assuredly an undercount. But it represents the stark reality that more Americans have died from the virus than from the Vietnam and Korea wars combined....

Mink May Have Passed Infection to Humans

'This would be the first known cases of animal-to-human transmission'

(Newser) - Officials say they have detected the first likely case of the coronavirus jumping from an animal to a human—but so far the risk is limited to mink farms in Holland. The World Health Organization tells AFP that three workers infected on mink farms "would be the first known...

China Does Something It Hasn't Done on Everest in 60 Years

It's the only team to scale it, but the goal wasn't glory

(Newser) - A single team of climbers has thus far managed to summit Everest amid the coronavirus pandemic—but they weren't doing it for the glory of the feat. The BBC reports the team was made up of Chinese surveyors tasked with measuring the peak using the country's BeiDou navigation...

France: This 'Should Not Be Prescribed' for COVID Patients

Country bans use of hydroxychloroquine

(Newser) - Another negative headline for hydroxychloroquine: France has banned the use of it as a coronavirus treatment. Politico lays out the timeline leading to the move. After the Lancet on Friday published the results of a worldwide study suggesting that the anti-malaria drug doesn't help patients and may well...

Research Changes Narrative of First Outbreak in US
Research Changes Narrative
of First Outbreak in US
new study
May 27, 2020 8:53 AM CDT

Research Changes Narrative of First Outbreak in US

Study suggests person once thought to have started Washington State outbreak actually didn't

(Newser) - A new study has changed the thinking on how the first big outbreak of COVID-19 in the US got started, reports STAT News . And the finding has implications for how states try to stem the spread of the virus. Until now, health officials were pretty sure that Washington state's...

Biden: Trump Is an 'Absolute Fool' on Masks

2020 candidates go at each other

(Newser) - President Trump and Joe Biden are going at each other over mask use. Biden wore one in his first public appearance since March , and on Monday night, Trump retweeted a tweet from a Fox News analyst appearing to mock Biden's mask-donning. On Tuesday, Biden gave his first in-person interview...

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