Tag Archives: Epidemics

Dow slips on Friday, Nasdaq posts consecutive declines amid mounting tensions between China and the United States and languishing fiscal stimulus

US stocks closed lower on Friday as the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite registered its first consecutive drop since mid-May, while investors worried about rising Sino-American tensions and lack of progress in another. fiscal stimulus bill in Washington. The increase in coronavirus cases in 40 US states is also limiting consumer and …

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Australia reports jump in new daily cases, record deaths

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing a protective suit takes a sample of a man’s nasal swab during tests for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Bondi Beach Traffic Test Center, as the state of New South Wales faces an outbreak of new cases, in Sydney, Australia, July 20, 2020. REUTERS …

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Healthy young adults with mild COVID-19 also take weeks to recover: CDC

FILE PHOTO: Phlebotomist Jenee Wilson talks to Melissa Cruz, a Valley Medical Center emergency technician who recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) she contracted from a patient, while finishing donating convalescent plasma at the Center Seattle Blood Central. Northwest during the outbreak in Seattle, Washington, USA, April 17, 2020. The plasma …

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