Dr. Anthony Fauci said he does not believe that the coronavirus can be eradicated, given the rapidity with which the contagion is spread among humans. “I don’t see this going away as SARS 1 did,” Fauci said Wednesday at a live broadcast event organized by the TB Alliance, a nonprofit …
Read More »The United States registers 2,600 new cases of coronaviruses every hour as the total approaches four million
(Reuters) – US coronavirus cases were approaching 4 million on Thursday, with more than 2,600 new cases every hour on average, the highest rate in the world, according to a Reuters count. FILE PHOTO: Emergency medical technicians clean their supplies outside Memorial West Hospital, where patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …
Read More »New record number of cases in Missouri
As COVID-19 continues to spread, KOMU 8 will continue to update you on community impacts. You can find a active map of confirmed COVID-19 cases county by county here, COVID-19 cases in Missouri broken down by county. Previous coverage: Updates for Wednesday July 22 will be available below: 4 pm …
Read More »America’s eviction bans are ending. That could worsen the spread of the coronavirus.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last month, when the coronavirus was on the rise in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin received more bad news: He had six days to vacate his apartment for not paying rent. An entrance is seen to the Providence at Champions apartment complex, amid the …
Read More »Signs of farm “revolution” in India as coronavirus causes change
RAIPUR JATTAN, India / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice in the same way as his ancestors: every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of farmers to plant seedlings for rice. FILE PHOTO: Workers work in a …
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