Health workers deliver Covid-19 tests on a street in Washington, DC, on August 14. Daniel Slim / AFP / Getty Images The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States could spike up to 6,000 people a day by December at least, according to Dr. Chris Murray, president …
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A student wears a face mask during an elementary school class on Aug. 20 in Surprise, Arizona. Cheney Orr / Bloomberg / Getty Images The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its school curriculum on Friday. The update adds more details to inform administrators’ decisions about opening schools …
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World Health Organization officials meet on August 21 in Geneva, Switzerland. world health organization Fighting the coronavirus pandemic is both easier and more difficult than it would be to fight the 1918 flu pandemic, World Health Organization officials said Friday. “With more connectivity, the virus has a better chance of …
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks forward to a news conference at Parliament on 21 August in Wellington, New Zealand. Hagen Hopkins / Getty Images New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made a sharp comparison between the situation of New Zealand’s coronavirus and the epidemic in the United States today, two …
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Andrew Cuomo, President of New York, will speak on August 19 in Albany, New York, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants all New York State school districts to reopen their plans to see how they would treat an outbreak of coronavirus, similar to the one that can be seen again at …
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