OTTAWA – Canada’s deficit is growing at the fastest rate in developed countries as it seeks to boost its economy during the Covid-19 epidemic. Canadian officials are betting that the aggressive approach will pay off, focus on the number of jobs already received, and argue that the country can finance …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Munuchi refused to extend some of the emergency loan programs jointly established with the Federal Reserve, which is due to expire on December 31. The Fed’s corporate credit, municipal financing and main street financing programs will not be renewed, Mr. Muchin said Thursday. The central bank expressed …
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American Airlines and British Airways will conduct free COVID-19 tests. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Agency France-Press / Getty Images American Airlines AAL, + 9.97% And British Airways IAG, + 48.4848% U.S. And the U.K. In an effort to persuade governments to start a coronavirus test trial the test could resume international …
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Madre de Dias River in BoliviaPhoto: Lydia Pedro / AFP (Getty Images) Scientists are urging caution against a mysterious, Ebola-like viral disease that appears to have spread from person to person during a small outbreak in Bolivia last year. The disease caused by the chaperone virus has killed three people …
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Historians and health professionals say that the “cytokine storm” was a common feature of the 1918 influenza. But how big of a potentially fatal immune response do coronavirus epidemics play? About 500 million people, or a third of the world’s population, became infected with the Spanish flu in 1918. About …
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