What will stand in the way of market gains? Clearly, it’s not bad news about COVID-19, as investors try to see the silver lining in these uncertain times. Take this chart that shows how Arizona cases have started to flatten, by Pantheon Macroeconomics, which expects that state to respond earlier …
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The 2020 coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemics share many similarities, but also diverge on one key point. “A big difference between the Spanish flu and COVID-19 is the age distribution of deaths,” according to Deutsche Bank DB, + 4.40%. “For COVID-19, the elderly have been overwhelmingly the most …
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LONDON (AP) – More than 200 scientists have asked the World Health Organization and others to recognize that the coronavirus can spread in the air, a change that could alter some of the current measures being taken to stop the pandemic. In a letter published this week in the journal …
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Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb, left, and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt, center, are advising Royal Caribbean and Norwegian on security protocols for navigating the pandemic era. Royal Caribbean CEO Richard Fain says the findings will be made public. Getty Images (1); Bloomberg (2) Text size …
Read More »The United States has recorded at least 120,168 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend of July 4. COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 11,317,637 people worldwide and 2,852,807 in the US as of Sunday, up from 2,732,639 on Thursday by night before the long weekend, …
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