Worldwide Grief: Death Toll From Coronavirus Tops 1 Million

Sep. 28– Right now, Jessica and Matthew Graham and their five children are quarantined in two hotel rooms in Spokane Valley. One house to the west of theirs survived, but it seemed like the rest of Malden perished, Matthew Graham said. Matthew Graham dismissed his cough at first, thinking it was an effect of the smoke clouding Whitman County.

The ACT-Accelerator needs US $35 billion to meet the goal of developing new tools and producing and delivering 2 billion vaccine doses, 245 million treatments and 500 million diagnostic tests over the next year. ACT-Accelerator's financing gap is US $35 billion. Fully financing the ACT-Accelerator to help shorten the duration of the crisis would pay back…

NEW YORK- When the coronavirus outbreak forced cruise lines to cancel trips to Alaska, it wiped out Midgi Moore's tour business, leaving her with thousands of dollars in deposits to refund. So, she withdrew $30,000 from her retirement account- a painful decision for a 56 year old starting to look forward to the day when she can stop working. Owners are trying to keep…

Sep. 26– Newest cases are community spread, of unknown origin. At Tuesday's meeting of the Lawrence County Commissioners there were discussions on purchasing equipment, insurance and COVID-19. Lawrence County Health Department director Georgia Dillon said the department has been very busy because they are seeing more cases and don't know where people are…

Andrew M. Cuomo said Thursday that the state will conduct its own safety review of any vaccine the federal government approves to prevent COVID-19 infections, and he named a panel to develop a plan to vaccinate everyone in the state. “New York State will have its own review when the federal government says it is safe,” Cuomo said at a press conference Thursday in…

–The impacts of COVID-19 have created a new normal for travelers, but not everything has changed. Travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth, shares four ways the coronavirus pandemic affected travel behavior and reveals the one travel trend that hasn’t changed. Pricey Cancel for Any Reason policies offer the most extensive cancellation coverage and…

WASHINGTON- A huge international study of a COVID-19 vaccine that aims to work with just one dose is getting underway as top U.S. health officials sought Wednesday to assure a skeptical Congress and public that they can trust any shots the government ultimately approves. Hopes are high that answers about at least one of several candidates being tested in the…

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold six weeks before an election that is certain to be a referendum in part on President Donald Trump's handling of the crisis. “It is completely unfathomable that we've reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins…

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made national headlines when it became the first major college to revert to online learning after attempting to reopen, citing clusters of cases. The coronavirus discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has claimed nearly 1 million lives, including 200,000 in the U.S. as of midday Tuesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the virus spreads primarily through small airborne droplets, like those that fly through the air when someone coughs or sneezes. Most CDC guidance about social distancing is built around that idea, saying that 6 feet is a safe buffer between people who are not wearing masks. In interviews, CDC…

–Sun Life U.S. has added three COVID-19 insurance products to its stop-loss offerings, including coverage for outbreaks, providing risk protection for self-funded employers if employees become infected. “The needs of our clients have evolved significantly over the past six months,” said Jen Collier, senior vice president of Stop-Loss& Health for Sun Life U.S. “…

In other news, presidential candidate Joe Biden made remarks in Philadelphia yesterday about the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the city is set to approve a plan to open 17 locations where voters can request, receive, fill out, and submit a mail ballot in one step. My colleagues Tom Avril, Marie McCullough, Aubrey Whelan, and Jason Laughlin…

With coins scarce all over the country, the Center City resident has favored air drying rather than the coin-operated laundry machines in her Spruce Street building. Rusek, 35, washes much of her wardrobe in her bathtub, much as she did in 2011 while serving with the Peace Corps in Gambia. The hardship caused by the coin scarcity is being disproportionately borne…

TAKOMA PARK, Md.- In front of baskets of tomatoes and peppers, near a sizzling burrito grill, the “promotoras” stop masked shoppers at a busy Latino farmers market: Want to test a COVID-19 vaccine? Aided by Spanish-speaking “health promoters” and Black pastors, a steppedup effort is underway around the U.S. to recruit minorities to ensure potential vaccines against…

Sep. 17– The Fresno County Board of Supervisors this week approved a $3.9 billion budget amid uncertainty over the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fresno County Chief Administrative Officer Jean Rousseau said the budget represents a “bare-bone” document with conservative revenue estimates, mostly due to the economic uncertainty.

NEW DELHI— India has confirmed another record jump in coronavirus cases, logging 97,894 cases in the past 24 hours. At the current rate of infection, India is expected within weeks to surpass the 6.6 million reported cases in the United States, currently the country with the most reported infections. Nationwide, India is testing more than 1 million samples per day.

The Nebraska City Rotary Club heard a presentation about consumer spending and the pandemic from Kiel VanderVeen, certified financial planning specialist with Blue-Print Financial Planning in Nebraska City. The Nebraska Community Foundation Fund provided the Nebraska City Community Foundation Fund with a grant to help bridge the learning gap.

Sep. 14– President Donald Trump is receiving backlash for holding a large, indoor campaign rally Sunday night in Nevada despite statewide coronavirus-related mandates. The event– held inside a facility owned by Xtreme Manufacturing in Henderson, which is near Las Vegas– was the president's first indoor rally in months. It came as COVID-19 has infected more than…

Sep. 14– Read Stateline coverage of the latest state action on coronavirus. Chittawan Boonsitanon started junior year at Michigan State University last week from his home in Bangkok, 8,500 miles and half a world away. “It's the health and safety of the United States that really concerns us,” Boonsitanon said.

Sep. 14– The Covid-19 pandemic now has affected even James E. Campbell's much-anticipated presidential vote prediction. But the UB political scientist, who has been sought by major newspapers and television networks for his insights, still expresses confidence in his prediction of a popular vote too close to call between President Trump and Democratic…

Sep. 13– In the six months since the Bay Area locked down in response to the coronavirus, we have been overwhelmed by a ticker tape of numbers that illustrate how COVID-19 has fundamentally changed our world. The sobering number of people killed by COVID-19 worldwide six months after the World Health Organization declared the pandemic. It's more than the…

“There are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are on the sidelines planning not to visit Florida this year due to COVID,” said Alain Forget, who heads sales and business development at RBC Bank, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. Stacy Ritter, CEO of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, said that while it’ s difficult predict the travel…

UNITED NATIONS— The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic Friday over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment that strongly urged countries to oppose any unilateral economic, financial or trade sanctions.

THE global Covid-19 pandemic took a toll on the micro-finance sector in the first half of the year with the portfolio quality deteriorating sharply to 19,5% from 13,3%, although risk mitigation measures are being put in place. The most common indicator to describe portfolio quality is the ratio of non-performing loans to total outstanding loans.

Andrew Cuomo, D- New York, issued the following transcript on Sept. 10:. We have Melissa DeRosa with us. We also have MTA Chairman Pat Foye and New York City Transit Head Sarah Feinberg, and I want to turn it over to Pat and Sarah in a moment.

Something has to give, and mostly it's been the planet- or, in our case, the Chesapeake Bay. When climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations last year, the press coverage focused on the teenager shaming the world body for inaction in reducing carbon dioxide, the primary agent of climate change. Her overall message resonated among…

Syd Davy spent over 30 years as a Winnipeg-­ based engineer at the helm of a locomotive for the Canadian Pacific railroad. Susan Davy worked as an investment adviser. White Rock is 35 miles south of Vancouver and five miles from the U.S. border.

He was one of the first coronavirus patients at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor to get an infusion of convalescent plasma– a yellow liquid removed from the blood of a person who has already recovered from COVID-19 and is rich with the antibodies. Beckerson was among about 70 patients at the hospital who were enrolled in an expanded access program study led…

“2020 has been a year like no other, but thankfully, we're still smiling down here in Oak Island.” On Friday, the final portion of the banged-up island restricted to visitors since the hurricane hit on Aug. 3, reopened for vacation rentals– just in time for Labor Day, the end of the summer tourist season. Even with the temporary loss in inventory, the vacation rental market…

The nation is awaiting a vaccine that can halt the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks, allowing life– and the battered U.S. economy– to return to normal. But a new study suggests the crisis has generated fears that are likely to dampen risk-taking and economic output for decades by increasing the “perceived probability of an extreme, negative shock in the future.”

BY LIZ S ZABO Kaiser Health News. Umair Shah, executive director of Texas' Harris County Public Health department, which includes Houston. In a four-page memo this summer, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told health departments across the country to draft vaccination plans by Oct. 1 “to coincide with the earliest possible release of…

—When the coronavirus outbreak forced cruise lines to cancel trips to Alaska, it wiped out Midgi Moore’ s tour business, leaving her with thousands of dollars in deposits to refund. So, she withdrew $30,000 from her retirement account— a painful decision for a 56 year old starting to look forward to the day when she can stop working. Owners are trying to keep their…

There was a great piece of news announced on August 25 by the World Health Organisation. It only remains in some isolated parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan where public health officials fight the poliovirus against inbred conservative peoples, some of whom who are prepared to kill the health workers on the grounds they are spreading the disease.

—When Khumbulani Moyo heard that his daughter had died of pneumonia while he was away on a work trip, he was shattered. Then he faced South Africa’ s new reality: His beloved 22- year-old Siphesihle Sithole would have to be buried within four days, in the absence of relatives beyond her parents. Earlier this year, officials in Eastern Cape province identified 200…

During a pandemic, perhaps not. But this year, May was also a time when Kansas seemed to have COVID-19 under control, with a steep decline in cases. As Stephan Bisaha of KMUW and the Kansas News Service reported earlier this month:“ Resigning would mean more than losing steady paychecks during a recession and insurance during a pandemic.

Danielle Garcia was in pretty good shape financially when 2020 started. With two of her five children still living at the home- and another popping in occasionally- Ms. Garcia still had mouths to feed and a growing electric bill with the family at home around the clock. “I need them to go back to school so I can get a job,” Ms. Garcia said. “

On Monday, University of Hong Kong researchers added another wrinkle, reporting the first confirmed case of reinfection. Classes began Monday at Temple University, but only about 9,000 students were expected to be on campus for opening day, down from the usual 27,000, the university said. Garbage collection in Philadelphia will continue to be delayed this…

—The World Health Organization on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a U.S. boost for the treatment has many scientists afraid formal studies will be derailed. On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized what's called“…

Logic and education, I just found out, don't always go hand in hand. Even the smart folks at Waubonsee Community College, where classes begin Monday, were certain they would see an uptick in enrollment this year as we watch those COVID-19 numbers remain stubbornly high. “Usually, a good majority of students who start in the fall tend to be traditional age,” noted Amanda…

If homeownership is the American dream, then being a renter has become the national nightmare. The extra $600 in weekly jobless benefits from the U.S. government is done. President Donald Trump's executive order for an ongoing $400 weekly stipend largely has been ignored.

Those results show more consistent mask use in Pennsylvania, where Gov. The new Pennsylvania poll, which was conducted Aug. 11 to 17, shows state voters across party lines are likely to be wearing a mask outside of their home. Two out of three Democrats said they always wear one, compared with 58% of independents and 43% of Republicans.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that he believes the death rate of the coronavirus in the United States should start to drop next week. In an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association, Robert Redfield said mitigation steps such as face coverings, social distancing and prohibiting large…

Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health issued the following news release:. The Perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine, co-authored by Harvard University PhD student Sumit Agarwal and Benjamin Sommers, professor of health policy and economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will be published online August 19,…

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told reporters the trials will be done in several countries, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The World Health Organization said Thursday it has begun discussions with Russia about testing the vaccine. “This concern that we have around safety and efficacy is not…

Aug. 20– CHAPEL HILL– They stood next to the cars they'd loaded with the things from their dorm rooms and said goodbye. It was a little past 5 p.m. on Tuesday outside of Hinton James, one of the university's largest residence halls– a faded brick high-rise on the southeast end of campus, a short walk from the Smith Center. “I think we joked that it wouldn't last long,” Kevin…

The U.S. was doing very well until the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. The state of the U.S. economy, as well as other significant issues, can be directly linked to the virus. This article is trying to make President Trump the scapegoat for the adverse impacts of the virus America is suffering through. The Obama/Biden presidency, as well as many states, left the U.S….

James Nichols walked into Nashville School District Superintendent Doug Graham's office wearing a cloth mask and then kept it on, despite everyone in the room except me having already been sick and recovered, mostly, from COVID-19. Eight Nashville school employees became sick with COVID-19 this summer. The assistant superintendent, Joe Kell, spent three…

Liu Jingzhen, the chairman of SinoPharm, told a Chinese Communist Party newspaper that the vaccine would cost less than 1,000 yuan and be given in two shots, 28 days apart. Liu, who is also the company’ s Communist Party secretary, told the paper that he had been injected with the vaccine. —Report: U.S. nursing home cases up nearly 80% in COVID-19 rebound.

Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, and…

As the financial outlook grew shaky, Cedar Rapids nonprofit leaders like Janssen wondered: Would they also lose their share of hotel-motel tax revenue, usually millions of dollars the city reaps from overnight guests to help attractions and tourism draws? The pandemic has put the budgets of many Cedar Rapids nonprofits in flux, according to Gazette…

LAS CRUCES- With schools beginning classes through distance learning, districts have already seen cases of staff with COVID-19 on their campuses– including Hatch Valley Public Schools, Gadsden Independent School District and Deming Public Schools. Education: Educators push New Mexico retirement board to divest from private prisons.

With a majority of states and businesses mandating face coverings to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and more research emerging that supports wearing them, masks have become an essential commodity. Now, masks of all shapes and styles as well as other types of reusable coverings can be easily purchased online and in a number of stores nationwide.

Moderna, Inc. will manufacture and deliver 100 million doses of its vaccine, mRNA-1273, while clinical trials are underway, according to a statement from the company. Moderna is on track to deliver around 500 million doses per year and possibly up to 1 billion doses per year, beginning in 2021, the company said in July. The deal announced Tuesday with Moderna is…

At this same point in the 2016 race in Wisconsin, the Marquette poll showed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with a post-convention bounce and leading Trump by 10 percentage points among registered voters and 15 points among likely voters. This year's conventions are running back to back, beginning with the Democrats next week with a virtual event…

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has warned Arizonans to look out for COVID-19 test result scams. If someone calls asking for personal information like your Social Security number or your Medicare account information, these are red flags for possible fraud. ” Requests for personal information: Scammers may request personal information, like Social…