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Saturday’s coronavirus updates: Paxton fourth-grader tests positive; Husband of Douglas, Iroquois wife among 17 dead; UI massmail: ‘We know how fast things can change’ | Coronavirus

A fourth-grader at Paxton’s Clara Peterson Elementary has tested positive for COVID-19, Superintendent Cliff McClure informed families and staff in a letter. “We are coordinating our efforts with the Ford County Health Department to immediately identify and monitor individuals who have recently had contact with the positive individual COVID-19 to …

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How COVID-19 accelerates the shift away from fossil fuels

Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism,” wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionize the economic structure from within, “destroy the old continuously, and emerge incessantly a new one.” Change happens faster and more creatively in times of economic crisis. Accelerate …

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