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• ‘Very, Very Scary’: Officials Dumbfounded as Florida Beaches Reopen, 3 Days After Death Spike

  18-04-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state of Florida passed two milestones in the coronavirus pandemic this week: its deadliest day yet, and the reopening of several public beaches.Hundreds of people flocked to the newly opened beaches in northern Florida on Friday evening, just two weeks Gov. Ron DeSantis’ month-long stay-at-home order began. The state is the first of several to start slowly reopening public spaces even as the novel coronavirus continues to spread.DeSantis announced Saturday that K-12 schools would rema
  
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• Florida, South Carolina reopen beaches as states begin to loosen restrictions

  18-04-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The governors are giving the green light despite concerns over the continuing coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• White House adviser Stephen Moore has repeatedly compared those protesting coronavirus lockdowns to Rosa Parks

  18-04-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protestors have railed against temporary measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, which Moore called "injustice and a loss of liberties."
  
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• Day 30 This House Is A Prison On Planet Bullshit – Quarantine Sign

  18-04-2020 23:48 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
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• My Stimulus Check Won’t Come Down Off The Roof – Meme

  18-04-2020 23:44 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
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• Jacksonville Florida Beach 26 Minutes After Reopening – Coronavirus Meme

  18-04-2020 23:40 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
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• 4 family members battling coronavirus after Virginia bishop's death

  18-04-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bishop Gerald Glenn of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church died from the virus. Now his wife, two daughters and son-in-law are sick.
  
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• Protesters decry stay-at-home orders in Maryland, Texas and Ohio capitals

  18-04-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rightwing media and Donald Trump have supported demonstrators but they appear to represent a minority opinion* Thousands of Americans backed by rightwing donors gear up for protestsA day after Donald Trump encouraged Americans to protest against strict public health measures aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus, rallies were held in state capitals in Maryland, Texas and Ohio, with more planned for next week in other states.Hundreds of people stood shoulder-to-shoulder at the Texas Capitol
  
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• House Hunters Stimulus Check Edition – Meme

  18-04-2020 23:29 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
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• Horrors revealed at virus-hit Canada nursing home

  18-04-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elderly residents left soiled and unfed after their caregivers fled the premises, 31 deaths in the space of a few weeks: a nursing home in Montreal has become the symbol of the terrible toll coronavirus is taking in Canada's long-term care homes.The bleak situation discovered at the Residence Herron, in the Montreal suburb of Dorval, has triggered an investigation for gross negligence and a national reckoning about the conditions in long-term care homes which account for half the country's more
  
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• Spanish virus lockdown prolonged as toll tops 20,000

  18-04-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the nationwide coronavirus lockdown would be extended two weeks to May 9, hours after the official death toll passed 20,000."We have done the hardest part through responsibility and social discipline... we are putting the most extreme moments behind us," Sanchez said.Spain, which has been under confinement since March 14, has recorded 20,043 deaths from the virus, the latest health ministry figures showed -- the third-highest official to
  
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• Sheriff threatened to jail teen's family if she did not delete Instagram posts about coronavirus, lawsuit says

  18-04-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Marquette County sheriff maintained the girl did not have the right to make her Instagram posts, the lawsuit says.
  
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• ECB Is Flexible and Could Do More If Needed, Officials Say

  18-04-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank could take further action if needed to support the euro area through the economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, policy makers at the institution said.The central bank has already unleashed a barrage of support over the past few weeks to cushion countries across the bloc, including committing to spend more than 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) on public and private debt this year. Yet even with such an unprecedented monetary boost, tensions a
  
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• Gilead’s Coronavirus Treatment Has Investors Excited, but the Latest Study Looks Inconclusive

  18-04-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Thursday, STAT News reported positive results from a clinical trial of remdesivir (RDV), a potential antiviral treatment for the coronavirus. Leaked data from a University of Chicago clinic participating in the study showed marked improvements in 113 COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms. Markets rallied on the news, with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 stock indexes jumping more than 2 percent. Shares of Gilead Sciences, the pharmaceutical company developing remdesivir, gained 10 percent when
  
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• Fewer Deaths in N.Y., Italy; New U.S. Cases Slow: Virus Update

  18-04-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- New York reported the fewest new coronavirus deaths in almost two weeks. Italy announced the least in almost a week. France had the smallest increase in five days.Spain will extend a lockdown for two weeks after joining the U.S. and Italy with more than 20,000 deaths. U.S. cases rose 3.4%, slower than the average over the last week. As the U.S. and Canada agreed to extend border limits to May 20, Israel planned to ease some limits.Key DevelopmentsVirus Tracker: Cases top 2.3 milli
  
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• Fact check: Herd immunity would not fully stop the spread of coronavirus

  18-04-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Although herd immunity may eventually be achieved, through vaccination or outbreak, other factors help stop respiratory diseases like COVID-19.
  
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• Brazil's economy could recover in fourth quarter, says central bank president

  18-04-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil's central bank president Roberto Campos Neto said on Saturday that Latin America's largest economy will begin to recover from the coronavirus crisis in the fourth quarter, according to an interview in local media.Brazil has more coronavirus cases than any other country in Latin America.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly dismissed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak and criticized social isolation guidelines, arguing that the economic toll will kill more people than the
  
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• 'America is being tested': Pence delivers commencement address to Air Force Academy class of 2020 and its first cadets to join Trump's Space Force

  18-04-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A wide shot of the event showed the academy graduates seated eight feet apart to comply with social distancing guidelines.
  
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• Over 200 people gathered in California to protest the state's stay-at-home order

  18-04-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 200 protesters defied public health expert advice, ignoring social distancing guidelines to remain six feet apart and crowded without face masks.
  
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• Michigan residents sue governor over coronavirus pandemic orders

  18-04-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faces at least two federal lawsuits challenging her April 9 executive order to fight the coronavirus outbreak, including requirements that residents stay at home and that most businesses close.
  
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• Landmark Lebanese hotel folds amid virus, economic crisis

  18-04-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of Lebanon’s landmark hotels that survived the country’s bloody 15-year civil war and various other bouts of fighting is shutting down amid the country's economic crisis and coronavirus pandemic, a hotel executive said Saturday.The prestigious, nearly 70-year-old Le Bristol was closed temporarily as part of national measures to combat the spread of the virus.It is owned by the Doumet family, one of Lebanon’s richest.
  
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• Judge doubts Kansas COVID-19 rule, blocks it for 2 churches

  18-04-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge signaled that he believes there's a good chance that Kansas is violating religious freedom and free speech rights with a coronavirus-inspired 10-person limit on in-person attendance at religious services or activities and he blocked its enforcement against two churches that sued over it.The ruling Saturday from U.S. District Judge John Broomes in Wichita prevents the enforcement of an order issued by Gov. Laura Kelly against a church in Dodge City in western Kansas and one in Jun
  
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• The Federal Bureau of Prisons has confirmed the first staff death linked to the coronavirus, report says

  18-04-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bureau said Robin Grubbs, who worked at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta, is the "first potential" staff death due to COVID-19, CBS News reported.
  
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• The week that was: Stories from the coronavirus saga

  18-04-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pressure is on to reopen America for business — even as the hardest hit areas in the United States and around the world are still struggling mightily to contain the coronavirus.The debate over easing lockdowns has taken on partisan tones in the United States, with Republican President Donald Trump urging supporters to “liberate” three states led by Democratic governors.In Africa, lockdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus may be having an unintended effect — chok
  
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• Vanessa Bryant wishes Kobe a happy 19th wedding anniversary on Instagram

  18-04-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vanessa Bryant celebrated the anniversary of her wedding to her late husband Kobe by posting a photo and a heartfelt message on Instagram.
  
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• 20 of Afghan president's palace staff have virus: officials

  18-04-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  About 20 workers in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's palace have tested positive for the coronavirus, two officials told AFP on Saturday, but so far, there is no indication the president himself has been infected.A second official confirmed the number, and said an additional 12 people from the president's administrative office had also contracted the virus.Ghani's spokesman Sediq Sediqqi declined to comment and referred questions to the health ministry, which also would not comment, saying it did
  
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• Crowds flock to Jacksonville beaches amid record COVID-19 cases

  18-04-2020 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Florida morons" trended on Twitter as people around the country criticized the decision to reopen beaches.
  
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• Unapproved Chinese coronavirus antibody tests being used in at least 2 states

  18-04-2020 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some Chinese-made COVID-19 antibody tests being used in the U.S. were not approved by China's FDA. China has now barred their export.
  
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• Italian church-turned-morgue 'finally empty' of coffins

  18-04-2020 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A church in Bergamo that served as an overspill morgue at the height of Italy's coronavirus epidemic "is finally empty", the mayor said Saturday.Where dozens of coffins once stood, nothing but flowers are left to be seen in a photograph tweeted by mayor Giorgio Gori that symbolises the easing of a crisis that has killed over 23,000 people in Italy.Bergamo is in the wealthy northern region of Lombardy, which accounts for over half Italy's virus victims.
  
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• Cuomo says New York is 'past the plateau' as coronavirus hospitalizations continue to fall

  18-04-2020 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite the good news, another 540 New Yorkers died as a result of the virus on Saturday, and 2,000 more were admitted to hospitals in the state.
  
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• Trump hopes to resume rallies as campaign vows their return

  18-04-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I hope we're going to have rallies. I think they're going to be bigger than ever," president said Friday.
  
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• Longstanding issues put Native American communities at high COVID-19 risk

  18-04-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With limited resources, tribal leaders are improvising ways to stop the virus' spread.
  
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• Every deportation flight from the U.S. is an 'alarm bell' as Central American countries brace for coronavirus

  18-04-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Central American countries are on edge as deportation flights from the United States arrive in the region with passengers who have tested positive for the novel COVID-19 coronavirus, The Associated Press reports.Because the United States has only tested a limited number of detained immigrants for the virus, there are fears that its spread throughout the U.S. detention centers is much wider than has been reported. Subsequently, that could mean that countries like Guatemala, where more than 1,600
  
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• Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran, highest in Middle East

  18-04-2020 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East.An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkey's confirmed tally within a few hundred of China, where the novel coronavirus first emerged.Koca said 121 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,890.
  
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• Trump says US investigating whether coronavirus spread after China lab mishap but cites no evidence

  18-04-2020 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump said U.S. officials are investigating whether the coronavirus began spreading after an accident at a Chinese lab. He did not offer evidence.
  
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• In nod to normalcy, Pence celebrates Air Force Academy grads

  18-04-2020 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a symbolic nod to normalcy, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a commencement address to the U.S. Air Force Academy's graduating class on Saturday, telling the cadets that by setting off on their mission to defend the nation they “inspire confidence that we will prevail against the invisible enemy in our time as well.”“I know we gather at a time of great challenge in the life of our nation,” Pence said as he began his remarks.
  
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• Fact check: Trump did host rallies, play golf as as COVID-19 outbreak ramped up

  18-04-2020 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A social media post implied that President Donald Trump was golfing or campaigning as the coronavirus spread. We find this to be true.
  
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• Another tornado outbreak is possible in the southern U.S. on Sunday

  18-04-2020 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A week after one of the biggest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history, more tornadoes are likely again on Sunday.
  
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• Hundreds crowd newly reopened Florida beaches even as the state sees a spike in coronavirus infections

  18-04-2020 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The rush to the beach came on the same day that Florida saw 1,400 new infections — the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases yet.
  
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• It's potatoes, again, for circus animals in Italy lockdown

  18-04-2020 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What do you call a hungry alligator during a coronavirus lockdown?An Italian circus stuck in a car park for two months has the answer: a problem.The Millennium Circus was supposed to be performing along the Ligurian coast in northern Italy, but the virus and a national shutdown of the country stopped it in its tracks.
  
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• Dr. Fauci throws cold water on conspiracy theory that coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab

  18-04-2020 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News and Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been pushing the lab narrative hard in recent days, despite a lack of hard evidence.
  
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• Planet Fitness CEO suggests unplugging 'every other piece of cardio' equipment at gyms as one way to enforce social distancing when lockdowns end

  18-04-2020 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration said gym facilities would be in "phase one" of reopening US businesses but health experts liken gyms to a "petri dish."
  
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• ESA helps NASA analyze unopened Apollo Moon landslide sample

  18-04-2020 18:30
  
  The European Space Agency has revealed that it is working with NASA to help it analyze a sample collected from a lunar landslide during the Apollo 17 mission in the early 1970s. The work will help shed light on aspects of the Moon using technologies that weren’t available when the sample was collected, as well as determining whether this method … Continue reading
  
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• Democrats Make Offer to Mnuchin in Effort to Break Aid Deadlock

  18-04-2020 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump signaled a possible compromise in the deadlock over additional aid for a staggered U.S. economy as the two top congressional Democrats and the administration pushed negotiations into the weekend.Congressional Democrats outlined a new compromise offer to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Friday night, a senior Democratic aide said. Trump’s blessing for aid to hospitals removes one sticking point in talks among House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democrati
  
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• New York Governor sounds optimistic note as coronavirus numbers improve

  18-04-2020 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuomo's cautiously upbeat report at a daily briefing came as the daily death toll across the state, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, dropped to 540 on April 17, down from 630 a day earlier and the lowest in more than two weeks.The governor said total hospitalizations of patients being treated for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, came to 16,967, a drop of more than 1,300 over the past three days."If you look at the past three days, you could argue th
  
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• Italy's daily coronavirus death toll lowest since April 12

  18-04-2020 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 482 on Saturday, the lowest daily increase since April 12, while the number of new cases was stable at 3,491, the Civil Protection Agency said.The death toll had risen by 575 on Friday, up from 525 the day before, with 3,493 new cases recorded.
  
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• 'Live free or die:' Americans protesting stay-at-home order were supported by prominent conservatives — including one linked to Betsy DeVos

  18-04-2020 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rightwing-backed demonstrators have claimed that they would rather "live free or die" than remain under state-mandated lockdowns any longer.
  
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• WHO warns that coronavirus antibodies can't guarantee long-term immunity

  18-04-2020 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization warned that there's no evidence antibody tests can show if a previously infected person is immune to reinfection.
  
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• Fox News host defended anti-lockdown protesters carrying Confederate flags and falsely accused Michigan's governor of calling them Nazis

  18-04-2020 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters — some armed — carried signs calling Gov. Gretchen Whitmer a Nazi as they waved Confederate flags and held Trump 2020 posters.
  
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• Tehran cautiously reopens as economic hardship trumps virus risks

  18-04-2020 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran allowed some shuttered Tehran businesses to reopen Saturday despite the Middle East's deadliest coronavirus outbreak, as many faced a bitter choice between risking infection and economic ruin.Top officials argue that Iran's sanctions-hit economy cannot afford to remain on lockdown, and approved similar measures in other provinces last week.There was a "significant" uptick in highway use on Saturday, according to Tehran's traffic police chief, who told state TV that some anti-congestion meas
  
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