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For months, Meg Fitzgerald has been preparing to have a vaginal birth after Cesarean section, or VBAC. So the 34-year-old Connecticut-based mom, who is expecting her third child, hired the doula she’d worked with during her second birth. Fitzgerald said the doula helped her maintain her sense of calm and perspective, even as it became […]

A weekend gathering of hundreds of people at a Salt Lake City airport parking garage to welcome home Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries drew strong rebukes Monday and triggered a new set of rules to prevent it from happening again By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press March 24, 2020, 1:25 PM 5 min

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, face masks are in huge demand right now. Millions of masks are needed, and you can help. When asked to address a nationwide shortage of face masks on Saturday, the White House wasn’t able to say when more health care workers across the country would be provided with more

Integrating work life into the home has rarely been easy, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought those worlds into sudden and sharp collision By MATT O’BRIEN and MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writers March 24, 2020, 11:20 AM 5 min read In the early days of working from home to prevent spread of the COVID-19 disease,

Image copyright AFP Image caption The WHO chief urged the G20 group of nations to boost production of protective equipment The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the coronavirus disease pandemic is “accelerating”, with more than 300,000 cases now confirmed. It took 67 days from the first reported of Covid-19 to reach 100,000 cases,

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the nation, many Americans are losing their jobs as nonessential businesses grind to a halt. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. workers lost their jobs or had their hours cut as of March 14, according to one poll, and that number is expected to grow. The Economic Policy Institute estimates

Chinese authorities are lifting a lockdown in most of its virus-hit Hubei province By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press March 24, 2020, 6:29 AM 1 min read BEIJING — Chinese authorities announced Tuesday they would end a two-month lockdown of most of virus-hit Hubei province at midnight. People with a clean bill of health will be

Governments around the world are encouraging people to stay at home to protect health services and save lives. Among the new measures being brought in the UK, people can only leave their homes to buy food, medicine and to exercise. They’re allowed to travel, but only to and from work if they cannot do their

Niche, little-known shows are now becoming extremely popular on Netflix due to the coronavirus pandemic. Self-isolating Netflix subscribers are turning to shows with titles such as “Containment” and “Pandemic” in droves. Right now, these two shows are both in the list of top 10 most popular shows on Netflix, according to the streaming platform. “Containment”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is scrambling to obtain protective gear for healthcare workers and first responders, reaching out worldwide and working with locals to ratchet up production as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep through the nation’s most populous state. The state is looking at ways of acquiring some 1 billion sets of gloves, along