Coronavirus: Return to Work
MLB’s latest tactic to start its season comes courtesy of Dr. Anthony Fauci
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Steven Ferdman Hoping to get Major League Baseball on track to start its season paused due to Covid-19, league commissioner Rob Manfred wasted no time using the nation’s top disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made headlines on Thursday when …
smart technology to keep players safe
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) moves to the basket against Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray (27) during the second half at Staples Center, March 6, 2019. Gary A. Vasquez | USA TODAY Sports | Reuters As the NBA heads to Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the league is making available a host of …
Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says
Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections. Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only …
Florida jobless claims surpass California’s as unemployment spreads
Florida overtook California on Thursday as the U.S. state with the most weekly unemployment claims as Tallahassee began to process in earnest its sizable backlog of filings. Florida, which reported 432,465 jobless claims for the week ended April 25, topped California’s 328,042, marking the first time since the week ended March 21 that the Golden State didn’t …
Apple and Google contact tracing technology cannot be mandatory
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask uses her mobile phone while walking past an Apple iPhone advertisement at Orchard Road in Singapore. Wei Leng Tay | Bloomberg | Getty Images Governments can’t force their citizens to use technology built by Apple and Google for tracking and mitigating the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, senior company representatives …
