(Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections worldwide reached 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters count, which increased by one million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six and a half months, and the head of the World …
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HERMISTON, Oregon. – José García reached into the bed of his truck and cautiously took out a sealed plastic bag. Inside was a homemade mask that a worker had given Mr. Garcia in one of the sprawling farm fields surrounding his home in Northeast Oregon. The mask was made of …
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Unbridled pessimism about the prospect of playing college football in the fall of 2020 has become fatalistic. Take a deep breath and start to get comfortable with the idea that there is virtually no chance of playing college football in any recognizable way this fall. Start digesting the notion that …
Read More »WHO sounds the alarm when coronavirus cases rise by a million in five days
(Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections worldwide reached 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters count, which increased by one million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six and a half months, and the head of the World …
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More than 30 cases, including four deaths, affected the Logan nursing home By KIRBY ROSSPhillips County Review Main Street Media recently published a well-received Spanish seven-part influenza pandemic series from 1918-1920 in six newspapers in north-central Kansas. For those who read it, you know that in January 1920, Phillips County …
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