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Local city and health leaders warned Charleston residents Thursday that the flood of infections worries hospitals with a dwindling supply of open beds. Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s Dr. Stan Wilson said the center’s emergency room had recorded three positive tests within eight minutes on Wednesday, and that doctors were concerned …

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“I don’t understand how a senator can go home and not have delivered supercharged unemployment along the lines we’re talking about,” said Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, who introduced legislation Wednesday that would allow benefits to continue for unemployment. as long as the economy was weak. But as is …

Senators from both parties emphasized that a distribution framework must be completed and published before the first vaccine is considered safe and effective. CDC Director Robert Redfield noted the need for strategies to reach underserved populations, including mobile units and pharmacies that he said were not fully utilized in past …

Technology is moving at high speed during the coronavirus pandemic, but the IPO process is stagnant. For the second week in a row, a technology company has more than doubled its value in its stock market debut. Last week, it was Chinese cloud software developer Agora, which increased 150% on …