Uber shares fell Friday after the company’s second-quarter results released Thursday. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP via Getty Images The shares of Uber Technologies Inc. resigned Friday because concerns about the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company’s business seem to be pending in hopes of its booming food …
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Winter stop had arrived in Stockholm at the end of February, and Soo Aleman was watching as her fellow Swedes left the capital for ski holidays in Europe. Aleman’s colleagues at Karolinska University Hospital, where she works as a researcher and doctor, came back relaxed and strengthened, with stories to …
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As people become accustomed to living with coronavirus, social distancing and mask protocols also become easier. America’s COVID-19 death toll in the US could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1, but consistent mask-wearing early today could save some 70,000 lives, according to new projections based on current death toll and …
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While lung cancer, heart and kidney damage can result from COVID-19, doctors and researchers are also beginning to look at the possible long-term effects of the virus on the brain. And many “long-haulers”, such as COVID-19 patients who have had symptoms for months after the first infection, report neurological problems …
Read More »Why are some people asymptomatic with coronavirus – and why are they so contagious?
How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 – showing no symptoms yet – and what makes them asymptomatic while other people suffer so terribly from the disease? This study, published this week in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 …
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