Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has been waiting for recent news that Russia has developed a vaccine, and is ready to start inoculating people with it. “We have …
Read More »How Student Loans Affect Your Credit Score
With payments from federal student loans paused since the CARES Act ended in March, millions of lenders saw their federal direct student loans automatically go into overdraft – and increase their credit scores. In fact, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the average …
Read More »Vaping makes teens up to 7 times more likely to catch COVID-19: study
Here is another cloud on the horizon for e-cigarette companies. A new Stanford study links vaping to a “substantially increased risk” of COVID-19 in teens and young adults. The nationwide sample of more than 4,000 participants conducted in May found that people who were armed were five to seven times …
Read More »The Executive Order of Trump, Memorandum For Relief for Student Loans
On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders and memoranda, through preliminary negotiations in Congress, calling for an extension of pandemic relief for tens of millions of Americans. One memorandum – probably the least controversial – proposes Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to proceed with deferring student loan …
Read More »COVID-19 infections hit exactly 20 million worldwide – why the actual number of cases is likely to be much higher
The coronavirus pandemic hit another unwelcome milestone Tuesday morning as the number of COVID-19 infections worldwide hit 20,092,855, according to the latest data collected by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. But the actual number of cases in both the U.S. and worldwide is likely to be …
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