By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM – Dr. Michael Saag spends much of his time treating patients who are fighting for their lives and working with colleagues who are overwhelmed and exhausted by the relentless battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. But he enters a different world when he walks out …
Read More »Dad fighting for life after getting coronavirus from 21-year-old son
A Florida father is now fighting for his life after contracting his son’s coronavirus, who ignored his parents’ advice to stay home and reunite with his friends. Plantation’s John Place has been admitted to the intensive care unit at Westside Regional Medical Center and was put on a ventilator for …
Read More »Alaska conducts more COVID-19 tests with fewer positive results than most other states. That doesn’t tell the whole story.
We are making coronavirus coverage available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on the reader’s support to do this job. Consider joining others to support local journalism in Alaska for just $ 3.23 per week. Alaska conducts more COVID-19 tests per capita than almost any other …
Read More »Why do so many Robinhood merchants own Disney shares?
Investors using the stock trading app for financial services company Robinhood seem to be feeling the magic. More than 622,000 of them own shares of Disney (NYSE: DIS), according to Robinhood data, making it the fourth most popular share in its users’ portfolios. After the coronavirus pandemic forced Disney to …
Read More »UN chief: World ‘at the breaking point’ with great inequality | News
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is at a “breaking point” and calls for a new model of global governance to address inequalities exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. During Nelson Mandela’s annual online conference on Saturday, Guterres said the pandemic “has been compared to an x-ray, …
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