Diamondbacks shortstop Nick Ahmed has seen some pictures of recent baseball games in Asia where players have worn protective masks to shield themselves from the spread of coronavirus By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer March 31, 2020, 9:02 PM 3 min read In order to get back on the baseball field, Nick Ahmed is willing […]
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TOKYO — Asian shares mostly fell Wednesday, on continuing worries about the economic fallout from the pandemic as reports of coronavirus cases keep surging in various regions. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped 4.5% to finish at 18,065.41. U.S. futures were lower, with the contracts for the S&P 500 and Dow industrials both down about 3%.
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BERLIN — Late last year — long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe — scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for the virus causing an unusual respiratory disease in central China. They had one by mid-January — and labs around the country were ready
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption “The only creative thing I’ve done in the last two and a half weeks is rewrite the lyrics.” When Matt Lucas updated a 20-year-old comedy song with lyrics giving advice about avoiding coronavirus, he expected about 500 people to watch it. “That’s probably as many people as would normally
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The world in 1919 was hardly a place for fun and games. A war like no other had ravaged Europe, killing untold millions and leaving the continent devastated. The Spanish Flu pandemic was waning but still wreaking its horrors, with some 50 million people dead worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States. But hundreds of
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The American system of private health insurance, with varying coverage and sometimes high premiums, deductibles or co-payments, is a stark contrast to the public systems in places like New Zealand, Australia and Britain, where government-subsidized access to doctors and many services is universal. Some expatriates say their health insurance options in the United States are
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Image copyright Getty Images Hospitals should use spare laboratory space to test self-isolating NHS staff in England for coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. The government faces growing criticism over a lack of testing for frontline staff who could return to work if found clear of the virus. On Tuesday, Cabinet Office minister Michael
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Larry David has a message for all the “idiots” out there: Stay inside. The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star on Tuesday joined the parade of celebrities recording PSAs urging people to keep in to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. “I basically want to address the idiots out there, and you know who you are,”
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AURORA, Colo. — Let’s go to the tape. NFL teams are having to rely more heavily on game film of college prospects as they prepare for the draft at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has halted business as usual across the globe. The social distancing spawned by the coronavirus emergency has halted pro timing
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President Donald Trump said he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, urging them to end an oil price war that has pulled U.S. benchmark crude down to about $20 a barrel April 1, 2020, 6:22 AM 4 min read 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to
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