March 2020

Is It Safe To Order Takeout During The Coronavirus Outbreak?

As the coronavirus continues to spread, restaurants across the country are shutting their doors to dine-in customers (and sometimes being forced to do so). Every place from P.F. Chang’s to Chipotle is sending out emails to patrons offering free delivery and ensuring guests that they are taking proper precautions to adhere to the Centers for […]

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BBC’s Question Time to lose studio audience during coronavirus outbreak

Image caption Fiona Bruce has hosted Question Time since David Dimbleby stood down last year Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme, will proceed without an audience during the coronavirus outbreak. The show, which normally sees political figures and commentators take questions from a studio audience, will also move to a prime time 20:00

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Coronavirus: How easy it for the UK to make more ventilators?

Image copyright Getty Images British engineering firms have been called on to switch to making medical ventilators as concern grows about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. For patients critically ill with Covid-19, access to a ventilator could be a matter of life or death. The machines get oxygen into the lungs and remove carbon

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On the Political Right, Anger and Suspicion Over Virus Precautions

WASHINGTON — When Deborah Frank Feinen, the mayor of Champaign, Ill., drafted an emergency powers declaration last Thursday to confront the coronavirus pandemic, she was proud of her city’s early preparation. But by the time she got to work the next morning, the National Rifle Association had blared a “national alert” saying “anti-gun extremists” were

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White House seeks $850B economic stimulus amid virus crisis

WASHINGTON — The White House is proposing a roughly $850 billion economic rescue package Tuesday amid the coronaviru s outbreak, a sweeping stimulus for businesses and taxpayers amid unseen since the Great Recession of 2008. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin planned to outline the package to Senate Republicans at a private lunch, with officials aiming to

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White House seeks $850B economic stimulus amid virus crisis

WASHINGTON — The White House is proposing a roughly $850 billion economic rescue package Tuesday amid the coronaviru s outbreak, a sweeping stimulus for businesses and taxpayers amid unseen since the Great Recession of 2008. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin planned to outline the package to Senate Republicans at a private lunch, with officials aiming to

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Jared Leto Had ‘No Idea’ About Coronavirus Blowup After Desert Retreat

Ignorance may have been contemplative bliss for actor Jared Leto. The “Dallas Buyers Club” Oscar winner tweeted early Tuesday that he had “no idea what was happening” after 12 days of silent meditation in a desert. In that time, the coronavirus officially became a pandemic, prompting drastic changes to day-to-day life in the United States and

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