The United States has recorded at least 120,168 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend of July 4. COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 11,317,637 people worldwide and 2,852,807 in the US as of Sunday, up from 2,732,639 on Thursday by night before the long weekend, …
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FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn declined to comment Sunday when multiple Sunday program hosts pressured him about President Trump’s suggestion the day before that 99 percent of coronavirus cases were “harmless.” Hahn’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC News’s “This Week” followed Trump’s July 4 speech from the …
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Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Institute of Global Health, on Sunday attributed an increase in coronavirus cases across much of the nation to a combination of premature reopens, lack of testing infrastructure, and unclear messages about measures of caution. “We got here because … I think we opened …
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Since arriving at the MLS is Back tournament in Orlando on June 27, 11 FC Dallas players and staff have tested positive for COVID-19. At the end of the week, 14 players, including one from the Columbus Crew, and two non-players had tested positive. Even as more teams arrive each …
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Accelerated change is a series of @amandngocnguyen that profiles the main creators of change in the world NASA astronaut Leland Melvin Official portrait with his dogs Robert Markowitz, NASA “Houston, we have a problem.” Astronaut Leland Melvin was training to take a spacewalk at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a five …
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