By BY NICHOLAS KULISH AND MEGAN TWOHEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/3cNt1tD
Wednesday 30 September 2020
Top companies pledge to get virus tests, treatments and vaccines to the developing world.
By BY NICHOLAS KULISH AND MEGAN TWOHEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/3cNt1tD
Trump’s Tax Avoidance Is a Tax on the Rest of Us
By BY BROOKE HARRINGTON from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3cNscRz
Facebook will forbid ads that undermine the legitimacy of the coming election.
By BY MIKE ISAAC from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/30nEpYn
Trump Calls on Extremists to ‘Stand By’
By BY NICHOLAS KRISTOF from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2HMjxnd
Brad Parscale steps away from the Trump campaign entirely after episode involving law enforcement.
By BY MATT STEVENS AND MAGGIE HABERMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2EQzU0Y
N.B.A. Finals Live Updates: Game 1 Lakers vs. Heat
By BY SOPAN DEB AND MARC STEIN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3l2NWMe
: Paris Hilton calls for Utah boarding school's closure following her abuse allegations, starts petition
Paris Hilton calls for Utah boarding school's closure following her abuse allegations, starts petition
Hilton claimed she was traumatized daily at the Provo Canyon School in Utah, where she was enrolled for 11 months at age 17.
The Proud Boys, Who Trade in Political Violence, Get a Boost From Trump
By BY NEIL MACFARQUHAR, ALAN FEUER, MIKE BAKER AND SHEERA FRENKEL from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/30nxtKP
A major Boston hospital has a cluster of cases among its staff and patients.
By BY GIULIA MCDONNELL NIETO DEL RIO from NYT World https://ift.tt/2HMcPh5
Trump Renews Fears of Voter Intimidation as G.O.P. Poll Watchers Mobilize
By BY DANNY HAKIM, STEPHANIE SAUL, NICK CORASANITI AND MICHAEL WINES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Sc4nJI
Hopeful Day in Queens: A Slice of Pizza, Served Indoors
By BY MATTHEW HAAG from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3ihxplS
Pennsylvania’s top election official casts doubt on fraud claims in Luzerne County.
By BY NICK CORASANITI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2SeAx7K
Republicans Scold Trump on White Supremacy, Fearing a Drag on the Party
By BY ALEXANDER BURNS, JONATHAN MARTIN AND MAGGIE HABERMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/33ffFU4
Rebuffed by Vatican, Pompeo Assails China and Aligns With Pope’s Critics
By BY JASON HOROWITZ AND LARA JAKES from NYT World https://ift.tt/3l1QP02
U.S. Repatriates Last of Islamic State Suspects Believed Captured in Syria
By BY KATIE BENNER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3cPgmqb
M.L.B. Will Allow Fans at World Series and N.L. Championship Series
By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3cMwKI6
Movie theaters say they can’t survive without aid from Congress.
By BY BROOKS BARNES from NYT Business https://ift.tt/36iZAyA
Now at the Boarding Gate: Coronavirus Tests
By BY TARIRO MZEZEWA from NYT Travel https://ift.tt/3jiab0d
: Kathie Lee Gifford talks her second act in life: 'All I ever wanted to do is be an actress and be a singer'
Kathie Lee Gifford talks her second act in life: 'All I ever wanted to do is be an actress and be a singer'
The former 'Today' co-host stars in the film "Then Came You" alongside former late-night host Craig Ferguson.
: Hilary Duff says she had 'big frustrations' over being typecast after 'Lizzie McGuire'
Hilary Duff says she had 'big frustrations' over being typecast after 'Lizzie McGuire'
The show ran from 2001 to 2004 on Disney Channel and a 2003 film followed the character as well.
Tuesday 29 September 2020
: Meghan Markle discusses misinformation spreading online: 'What I actually say isn’t controversial'
Meghan Markle discusses misinformation spreading online: 'What I actually say isn’t controversial'
Markle made the remarks during Fortune's Most Powerful Women virtual summit on Tuesday.
Trump Paid $750 in Federal Income Taxes in 2017. Here’s the Math.
By BY RUSS BUETTNER, MIKE MCINTIRE, SUSANNE CRAIG AND KEITH COLLINS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3kXZqAH
Live Tonight: Watch the Debate With Fact Checks
By BY LISA LERER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3cKve9a
Quebec brings back restrictions as cases rise again
By BY DAN BILEFSKY AND IAN AUSTEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/3jt1osJ
Draymond Green Doesn’t Mind Missing the N.B.A. Finals. This Year.
By BY MARC STEIN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3cOR63p
Trump’s top intelligence official releases unverified and previously rejected Russia information.
By BY JULIAN E. BARNES, ADAM GOLDMAN AND NICHOLAS FANDOS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Gp6k3a
Bad Call Sends Kristina Mladenovic Spiraling Again
By BY BEN ROTHENBERG from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2Gie6Mb
The Facebook Pages With the Largest Share of Debate Conversation
By BY DAVEY ALBA from NYT Technology https://ift.tt/3n663Tg
Researchers say a Project Veritas video accusing Ilhan Omar of voter fraud was a ‘coordinated disinformation campaign.’
By BY MAGGIE ASTOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3jlJl7K
Meron Benvenisti Dies at 86; Urged One State for Jews and Palestinians
By BY SAM ROBERTS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2ScqTlK
Trump Sent a Warning. Let’s Take It Seriously.
By BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/30kXM4d
Barrett told senators that Trump offered her the nomination much sooner than previously known.
By BY NICHOLAS FANDOS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2EKgCu1
Top Intelligence Official Releases Unverified, Previously Rejected Russia Information
By BY JULIAN E. BARNES, ADAM GOLDMAN AND NICHOLAS FANDOS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/33dw773
Watch Live Debate Stream: Trump vs Biden
By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/34dnCIH
Twins’ Playoff Misery Continues, Courtesy of the Depleted Astros
By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3ieKlZY
In the Breonna Taylor Case, a Battle of Blame Over the Grand Jury
By BY SHAILA DEWAN, WILL WRIGHT AND JOHN ELIGON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3kYO1AO
Cuomo and De Blasio Need a United Front on Coronavirus Hot Spots
By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2G2aIW0
Chris Christie helped run Trump’s debate prep. He’ll also be a debate pundit for ABC.
By BY MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/34970Sm
Presidential debate season begins with an unpredictable and unnerving first matchup.
By BY GLENN THRUSH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2HEBF2d
: Drew Barrymore reveals she kept an ‘E.T.’ prop which is now in her daughters' room: ‘Glad I still have it’
Drew Barrymore reveals she kept an ‘E.T.’ prop which is now in her daughters' room: ‘Glad I still have it’
Drew Barrymore made sure to keep a souvenir from one of her earlier roles in the childhood film favorite “E.T.”
: Lili Reinhart says she’s 'nostalgic for my quarantine life' as she shares topless pic and snapshots with pals
Lili Reinhart says she’s 'nostalgic for my quarantine life' as she shares topless pic and snapshots with pals
Months after production on "Riverdale" was shut down due to the global spread of coronavirus, the 23-year-old actress has been summoned back to Canada to resume filming.
Monday 28 September 2020
FOX NEWS: Amazon announces new date for 'Prime Day'
Amazon announces new date for 'Prime Day'
Amazon 'Prime Day' now set for October 13 and 14 after COVID-19 postponement; Biz Flash Monday, 9/28.
via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/3kVUr3E
1 Million People Have Died of COVID-19. It’s a Reminder That We Still Have So Much to Do
With an ever-climbing tally of COVID-19 infections, deaths, and calculations about how quickly the virus is spreading, the numbers can start to lose meaning. But one million is a resonant milestone.
According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the world has now lost one million lives to the new coronavirus. It’s easy to draw analogies—one million people dying of COVID-19 would be the equivalent of just over the entire population of a country like Djibouti, or just under the populace of Cyprus. Perhaps more sobering would be to think of that number less as an entity and more in terms of the precious individual lives it represents. It’s a chance to remind ourselves that each of those deaths is a mother, a father, a grandmother, a grandfather, a friend, a loved one.
It’s also a warning to learn from these deaths so they haven’t occurred in vain. When the novel coronavirus burst into the world last winter, the best virus and public health experts were initially helpless to combat infections in a world where almost nobody had any immunity to fight it. As a result, the mortality rate, which hovered just under 3% around the world starting in late January, slowly began to creep upward, doubling in two months and hitting a peak of more than 7% at the end of April before inching downward again.
While every death from COVID-19 is one too many, public health experts see some hope in the fact that while new cases continue to pile up around the world, deaths are starting to slow. That declining case fatality curve was and continues to be fueled by everything we have learned about SARS-CoV-2 (the COVID-19 virus) and everything that we have put into practice to fight it. That includes using experimental therapies like the antiviral drug remdesivir, as well as existing anti-inflammatory medicines that reduce the inflammation that can compromise and damage the lungs and respiratory tissues in the most severely ill patients.
That falling case fatality is also due in part to wider adoption of prevention strategies such as frequent hand washing, mask wearing and social distancing. And to the fact that globally, we began testing more people so those who are infected can then self-isolate quickly.
Read more: The Lives Lost to Coronavirus
Still, another thing we have learned from the pandemic is that deaths often lag behind cases, sometimes by months. And the number of cases globally continues to increase, especially in new hot spots in South America and India, so the declining curve of the fatality rate hasn’t necessarily led to fewer overall deaths.
Understanding how the geography and nature of COVID-19 deaths have shifted in recent months will be critical to maintaining any progress we’ve made, as nations and as a species, in suppressing COVID-19. In the U.S., for example, deaths early in the pandemic were centered in densely populated metropolitan areas, where infections spread quickly and hospitals became overwhelmed with severely ill people needing intensive care and ventilators to breathe. The virus had the advantage, and exploited the fact that there wasn’t much that science or medicine could do to fight it.
The only strategy was to take ourselves out of the virus’s way. Lockdowns that prohibited gatherings, mandates for social distancing and requirements that people wear masks in public helped to slow transmission and gradually reduce mortality, as the most vulnerable were protected from infection. But nine months into the pandemic, deaths are beginning to rise in less populated parts of the country. Medium- and small-sized cities and rural areas accounted for around 30% of U.S. deaths at their peak in late April, but in September they have been responsible for about half of COVID-19 deaths in the country.
The reason for that, public health experts suspect, has to do with the false sense of security that less populated communities felt and the assumption that the virus wouldn’t find them. Less stringent requirements and enforcement of social distancing and basic hygiene practices like hand washing and mask-wearing could have provided SARS-CoV-2 the entrée it needed to find new chances to infect people as those opportunities in more populated regions began to dwindle. Furthermore, health resources in rural areas aren’t as well distributed as they are in metropolitan regions, which makes preparing for an infectious disease more challenging.
Globally, COVID-19 mortality also reflects the unequal distribution of health care around the world. While developed countries are able to rely on existing resources—including hospital systems equipped with the latest medical tools and well-trained nurses and doctors—those resources aren’t as robust in lower income countries where health care isn’t always a high national priority. That puts these countries at greater risk of higher fatality from COVID-19 as new infections climb. Without medical equipment and personnel to ramp up testing and isolate infected people, or to care for the sickest patients, deaths quickly follow new infections.
That tragic reality is being borne out in recent case fatality trends. While the U.S. continues to lead the world in overall COVID-19 cases and deaths, the burden of deaths is shifting to countries such as Brazil and Mexico; Brazil has just over half the number of deaths of the U.S. Deaths in India are also likely to continue inching upward before they start to decline, as survival there under lockdown conditions is nearly impossible for families that have no income to buy food and pay rent. The pressure to reopen and re-emerge into densely populated cities will provide more fertile ground for COVID-19 to spread—and to claim more lives—before better treatments and vaccines can start to suppress the virus’ relentless blaze of despair.
Biden maintains lead heading into debate.
By Unknown Author from NYT The Upshot https://ift.tt/3ikoe4p
For Trump and Biden, the first debate arrives with high stakes, and new drama.
By BY ADAM NAGOURNEY, SHANE GOLDMACHER AND KATIE GLUECK from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3icqKJM
Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide
By BY RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA from NYT World https://ift.tt/3icAzav
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