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Three people on a recent Delta Air Lines flight to upstate New York tested positive for COVID-19
The passengers were aboard Delta flight 4815 from Atlanta to Albany on July 5, the department said in a July 10 news release. They were asymptomatic on the flight, but began showing signs of the virus the next day - https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article244226897.html
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.
The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822
Potentially thousands of people were scammed out of money after hijacked accounts of prominent verified users promised to double the money fans sent them in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53428304
New coronavirus outbreaks, even in places as far flung as China’s western Xinjiang region, are prompting worldwide moves to guard against the pandemic, as the number of confirmed cases globally approaches 14 million. - https://apnews.com/c3c7481ac03f9a2f30179359802a8296
The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back.
Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of Covid-19. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html
The Pew Center reported that July 7 only 17% of people in the U.S. have confidence in government to do the right thing. Never in the history of their surveys, which began in 1958, has that confidence been so low.
Why is trust so low and why does that matter, especially during a crisis – and especially during this crisis? - https://theconversation.com/leaders-like-trump-fail-if-they-cannot-speak-the-truth-and-earn-trust-141767
People on the east coast of coronavirus-struck South Africa are glad to be distracted by an annual natural spectacle: the sardine run. Millions of sardines migrate along the coast – followed by birds, seals, sharks – and fishermen. - https://p.dw.com/p/3fWlR
With flights grounded and borders closed, some people have embarked on epic voyages to get home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Here, we take a look at four such journeys - and the distances travelled just get longer and longer - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53431985
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It is absolutely disturbing how many Americans feel wearing a mask is an infringement on their rights. It’s disgusting. I’m disturbed at the climate of this country right now.
Mary Daniel visited her husband Steve every day at his Florida memory care center until they stopped allowing visitors in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. So she took a job as a dishwasher at the nursing home so she could visit her husband. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/coronavirus-diswasher-wife-alzheimers-trnd/index.html
How do we deal with a person whose core impulse in every part of his life is to deny, deceive, deflect, disparage, and double-down every time he is challenged? And what precisely is the danger such a person poses if he also happens to be the leader of the free world, during a crisis in which thousands of people are dying every day, with no letup in sight? - https://gen.medium.com/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9
Canada's federal court has ruled that an asylum agreement the country has with the US is invalid because America violates the human rights of refugees. - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53494561
On Thursday, more than 150 prominent medical experts, scientists, teachers, nurses and other experts signed a letter urging leaders to shut the country down and start over to contain the rampant spread of the virus. - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/26/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html