Sep 7, 2020 | Interviews and Features
Facebook has blocked the live stream of a man in France suffering from an incurable ailment who planned to broadcast his death, Agence France-Press reported. Alain Cocq, 57, has a medical condition that causes his arteries to stick together, and stopped all food and drink as of Friday night. He has used his condition to try to bring about changes to France’s right-to-die law, and announced he would live-stream his death on Facebook.
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Sep 7, 2020 | Interviews and Features
More than 7,000 college-students in Missouri have tested positive for the coronavirus since classes resumed in mid-August, fueling spikes in confirmed cases in the state’s college towns, Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday.
Recent single-day positive test rates in some college towns have been as high as 45% for people in the 18-24 age group, Parson said. That’s more than eight times the national positivity rate of 5.5% for people of all ages, according to the seven-day average from The COVID Tracking Project operated by The Atlantic.
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Sep 7, 2020 | Interviews and Features
More than 7,000 college-students in Missouri have tested positive for the coronavirus since classes resumed in mid-August, fueling spikes in confirmed cases in the state’s college towns, Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday.
Recent single-day positive test rates in some college towns have been as high as 45% for people in the 18-24 age group, Parson said. That’s more than eight times the national positivity rate of 5.5% for people of all ages, according to the seven-day average from The COVID Tracking Project operated by The Atlantic.
Sep 5, 2020 | Interviews and Features
Federal and state investigators raided a Pennsylvania nursing home Thursday where hundreds of residents and staff members tested positive for coronavirus and dozens have died, authorities said.
Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general’s office, and other agencies executed the search warrant at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center northeast of Pittsburgh, said Scott Brady, U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania’s Western District.
Federal and state investigators raided a Pennsylvania nursing home Thursday where hundreds of residents and staff members tested positive for coronavirus and dozens have died, authorities said.
Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general’s office, and other agencies executed the search warrant at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center northeast of Pittsburgh, said Scott Brady, U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania’s Western District.
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Sep 5, 2020 | Interviews and Features
A coronavirus patient in her 70s—Lisette Braeken—who spent 160 days fighting the infection at a hospital in Belgium, including nine weeks in a coma, has been discharged from the hospital after doctors gave the patient a “0.0001 percent chance of survival,” Belgium’s Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) reported.
A doctor reportedly told Braeken’s son Geert: “What happened to your mother here gives me goosebumps. It’s a miracle.”
The patient, from the Dilsen-Stokkem municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg, was given a minimal chance of survival at the start of June.
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Sep 5, 2020 | Interviews and Features
A WHO spokeswoman said on Friday it does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety.
“We don’t seem to be expecting to work out widespread vaccination until the middle of next year,” spokeswoman Margaret Harris told journalists at an arrangement in Geneva.
WHO spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris said that the worldwide corona vaccine is in advanced clinical trials but no vaccine has yet demonstrated 50 percent of the corona’s preventability. Whereas, in the corona period, any vaccine is expected to be at least 50 percent effective.
Russia granted regulatory approval to a COVID-nineteen vaccine in August once but two months of human testing, prompting some Western consultants to question its safety and efficacy.
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