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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Aug. 31: Senator Stole Pandemic Relief Funds, U.S. Hospitalizations Due to Covid Are Up
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,267th day of the pandemic.
OP-ED FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Senator With Long Covid Demands Congressional Action
Three current and former U.S. senators who suffer from Long Covid – Tim Kaine, of Virginia, Todd Young of Indiana, and Jim Inhofe, a former senator from Oklahoma, penned an article that appeared today in …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Aug. 16: Families of Covid Victims Sue, New Zealand Ends Remaining Pandemic Restrictions
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,252nd day of the pandemic and World Calligraphy Day.
World Calligraphy Day, which falls on the Wednesday of the second full week of August, is intended to remind people of the importance of handwriting and handwritten material, something that sometimes seems to have been almost totally abandoned now due to the …
United Airlines to Bring Back Service to Beijing, Increase Shanghai Service
United Airlines said it plans to resume flights to Beijing come November. The Chicago-based carrier also said it will increase the frequency of its operations to Shanghai with daily flights from San Francisco starting October 1.
“This announcement is good news for United customers because we believe that a daily flight to Beijing and a daily flight to Shanghai from San Francisco is consistent with the demand we see in the …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – July 21: Ponzi Scammer Freed by Trump Fleeced Covid Investors, Long Covid Symptom ‘Ages’ Patient by 10 Years
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,227th day of the pandemic.
OP-ED ON FRIDAY
Masks Are Back – ‘Facekinis’ Are the Hot New Fashion Trend
It was bound to happen. Masks are making a return, but not in the way you might imagine.
In China, as temperatures soar above 95° F (35° C), people are starting to buy and wear …
As the World Swelters …
The world is sweltering in record heat, causing me to think of the great American satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer and his song, “So Long Mom,” a bit of pre-nostalgia, as he put it in 1965, for World War 3. It was in that world, when I was perhaps in fifth or sixth grade, that I learnt the word “swelter” (the song goes “But while you swelter / Down there …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – July 8: Safety Training at Wuhan Lab Was ‘Routine,’ Hospitals That Went Over Budget on Nursing Are in Arrears
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,214th day of the pandemic.
SATURDAY OP-ED
On Saturday, 99% of the Earth’s Population Had Sun at the Same Time
If you happened to be up this morning at just after 7 a.m. EDT and looked out to see the sun, you were far from alone. At that very moment, 99% of the …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – July 6: ‘The Virus Could Still Surprise Us,’ Death Toll in China Rises Significantly
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,212nd day of the pandemic.
In news we cover today, the former White House coronavirus czar said that the virus could still surprise us, the death toll in China from Covid rose dramatically, and a French doctor who touted bogus Covid cures now stands accused of illegally experimenting on the homeless.
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