The global death toll for COVID-19 has now exceeded half a million. To slow the spread of the disease, we must better understand why some places have more cases and deaths than others. One factor that may partially explain this is air pollution. Research has shown that long-term exposure to …
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Penguins continue to practice … with a new normal
TribLIVE’s daily and weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and the information you need, right to your inbox. None of this is normal. Just look at the calendar. Is July. Penguins shouldn’t be practicing. They should do one-leg box jumps in a home gym in the morning and …
Read More »Luckin Coffee dismisses president and appoints new CEO
The embattled Chinese coffee chain has named Jinyi Guo president and CEO after shareholders voted to remove co-founder and former president Charles Zhengyao Lu, Luckin said in a regulatory filing on Monday. Luckin went public last year and increased due to what appeared to be strong sales growth. But then …
Read More »Protest in Pennsylvania after a police officer uses his knee to restrain the man
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Anti-police brutality activists voiced outrage and demanded accountability Monday after the video appeared over the weekend of an officer placing his knee in the area of a man’s head and neck in front of a Pennsylvania hospital. Allentown police released a much longer surveillance video of the …
Read More »The new “debilitating” symptom affecting younger coronavirus patients
One of the reasons why the coronavirus pandemic has been so difficult to fight is that the disease continues to appear in different ways. And while the details of how and why are still unclear, symptoms seem to vary occasionally by population. In recent weeks, more and more young people …
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