Now, everyone is trying to navigate conflicting threat levels in a way that used to be specific to those populations, she said. Cues that used to be neutral or positive, like being around other people (I love my friends and family!) are now associated with threat (my friends and family might infect me with Covid!). …
Nations around the world are setting new records for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections, and the disease is surging even in some countries that have kept the virus in check By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press April 8, 2021, 6:14 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Nations around …
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Soho House — the London-based group of posh private clubs — is planning to go public across the pond, a new report says. The British company filed confidential paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange at a valuation of more than $3 billion, the …
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Income inequality could grow worse, the report said, tying it at times to information inequality. The “trust gap” between an informed public that has faith in a government solution and a wider public with deep skepticism of institutions is growing, the report said. Updated April 8, 2021, 9:43 a.m. ET The problem is made worse …
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Germany’s health minister says the European Union doesn’t plan to order Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine but his country will hold talks with Russia on whether an individual order makes sense By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press April 8, 2021, 11:53 AM • 4 min read BERLIN — Germany’s health[1] minister said Thursday that the European …
More evidence of the job market’s recovery could emerge Thursday morning when the Labor Department reports the latest data on new claims for unemployment benefits. The increasing pace of vaccinations — combined with the easing of restrictions on business and consumer activity in many states, and the arrival of stimulus funds — has helped lift …
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. — The first hurdle was getting on the bus. Seventy-four-year-old Linda Busby hesitated outside a community center where older people were loading up to go get the coronavirus[1] vaccine. “I was scared, I’m not afraid to say that,” Busby said Wednesday after getting her shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after encouragement …
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Mr. de Notaristefani, a former top executive at two major pharmaceutical companies, cited “significant” personnel problems, writing that plans to increase staffing seemed “inadequate to enable the company to manufacture at the required rate.” He also noted that audits by the F.D.A. and individual companies that had hired Emergent “highlighted the need for extensive training …
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All of the nation’s school kids should be back in classrooms by the fall, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. “We should anticipate, come September 2021, that schools should be full-fledged in person and all of our children back in the classroom,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the federal agency’s director, told …
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Every Hawaiian adult will become eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine by April 19, as Hawaii becomes the 50th state to heed President Biden’s calls to accelerate vaccinations, a health official there said Wednesday. The news came with a note of caution. “This does not mean everyone will be able to get vaccinated on April 19, …
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