Economic Indicators10 hours ago (Apr 10, 2020 05:00PM ET) (C) Reuters. Illustration photo of a U.S. five dollar note By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States racked up a $744 billion budget deficit in the first half of fiscal 2020, up 8% from a year earlier, the Treasury […]
Astronaut Mike Massimino on How to Make the Most of This Isolation
Mike Massimino has experienced the greatest isolation a human being could ever know: the solitude of space, hundreds of miles above humanity. A NASA astronaut for 18 years, Massimino spent about a month total sheltering in place–or, more accurately, sheltering in space–aboard two separate missions on the space shuttle, donning […]
U.S. consumer prices post largest drop in five years amid coronavirus disruptions
2/2 (C) Reuters. People are reflected in a mirror as they shop during Black Friday sales in New York 2/2 By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices fell by the most in more than five years in March and further decreases are likely as the novel coronavirus outbreak […]
9 Amazon Workers Describe the Daily Risks They Face in the Pandemic
After this interview was conducted, the driver reported that Whole Foods has instituted more protections for workers, including social distancing measures, temperature screenings, and providing gloves. Warehouse worker, early sixties, California I’ve been with Amazon 11 months now. I went there with the idea that it was just going to […]
U.S. consumer prices post largest drop in five years
2/2 (C) Reuters. People are reflected in a mirror as they shop during Black Friday sales in New York 2/2 By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices fell by the most in more than five years in March and further decreases are likely as the novel coronavirus outbreak […]
Life in Pandemic and Echoes of Soviet Russia
Like a nation of Raskolnikovs, we lead underground lives. In the Soviet era, intellectuals and artists had a surreptitious means of communications, a stealth distribution system, called samizdat. It is an ad hoc means of publishing information, based on a DIY spirit. Though the current impetus is to avoid a […]
Modified Sleep Apnea Machines May Ease the Ventilator Crunch
As hospital administrators and public health officials scramble to meet a shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients, teams of doctors, engineers, and DIYers are filling some gaps by modifying breathing machines that are relatively plentiful, such as those used to treat sleep apnea. This technological fix is happening at the […]
Does Vaping Raise Your Risk of Covid-19 Symptoms?
Like many parents, LeeAnn is terrified her son will catch Covid-19. She lives in New York, near the nation’s coronavirus epicenter, but that isn’t the only issue that’s worrying her. LeeAnn is especially concerned because her teenager vapes: “This virus attacks the lungs and his lungs are most likely compromised […]
I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.” Dr. Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci hopes that Americans have learned some permanent lessons from the COVID-19 outbreak. “One of them is absolute compulsive hand-washing,” said Fauci, the most famous member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He made the comments last Wednesday during a Wall Street Journal podcast. “The other,” he […]
Japan’s wholesale prices mark first fall in five months as pandemic hits global demand
Economic Indicators5 hours ago (Apr 09, 2020 08:50PM ET) (C) Reuters. Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tokyo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s wholesale prices marked the first annual decline in five months in March, suggesting that slumping global demand for oil and raw material due to […]