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They Went for a 'Gorgeous' Hike. The Next Day, Singer Fell Ill

Adam Schlesinger girlfriend Alexis Morley details Fountains of Wayne co-founder's final days

(Newser) - It was shocking to the music world when Adam Schlesinger, one of the founders of Fountains of Wayne, died from COVID-19 earlier this month. But how suddenly the coronavirus felled the 52-year-old is underscored in an emotional Instagram post put up by his girlfriend, Alexis Morley, USA Today notes. Morley...

Unsold Girl Scout Cookies Lead to Federal Relief

Alaskan council gets an emergency loan

(Newser) - It may not be the first business you think of when it comes to coronavirus shutdowns, but the sale of Girl Scout Cookies was cut short amid the outbreak. And in Alaska anyway, that has resulted in federal relief through a Paycheck Protection Program loan, reports the Anchorage Daily News ...

As Meat Plants Shut Down, an Ominous Warning

Food supply chain is 'breaking' amid pandemic, says John Tyson, chair for Tyson Foods

(Newser) - Smithfield Foods and JBS have closed meat-processing sites , while Tyson Foods shut down pork plants in Iowa and Indiana last week after they were found to be hot spots for coronavirus outbreaks. Now Tyson is issuing a dire warning on the state of the industry as a result of the...

Campuses Can Reopen in Fall With 3 Abiding Principles

Test, trace, and separate, writes Brown's president

(Newser) - Last week came a warning that the coronavirus pandemic poses an "existential threat" to US colleges and universities. It's no exaggeration, writes Brown President Christina Paxson in a New York Times op-ed. If colleges cannot reopen in the fall, "it's not a question of whether institutions...

Cops: Woman's Mask May Have Caused Crash

NJ police department walks back initial remarks after noting N95 mask could've led to accident

(Newser) - Police pointed to an odd possible cause of a single-car crash in New Jersey last week, though an "overwhelming response" on social media now has them pulling that back. ABC News reports cops responded to the scene of an accident Thursday in Lincoln Park and found a red car...

This Nation Just Announced It Has 'Won That Battle' on Virus

COVID-19 is 'currently' eliminated in New Zealand, PM says—but citizens should still stay 'vigilant'

(Newser) - While Australia has embarked on an ambitious contact-tracing endeavor in its fight against COVID-19, its Down Under neighbor has some big news of its own. New Zealand has announced it's now able to downgrade its coronavirus alert to "Level 3," per the New Zealand Herald , meaning many...

Australia Undertakes Massive Contact Tracing Endeavor

More than 1M have signed on so far

(Newser) - Australian officials are pleased that more than 1 million people have downloaded an app designed to accelerate contact tracing for coronavirus despite some privacy concerns. Within 12 hours of the Australian-developed COVIDsafe app becoming available late Sunday, 1.13 million of Australia’s 26 million population had downloaded it onto...

Double-Lung Transplant Gave Her a New Life. Virus Claimed It

Joanne Mellady lived more than twice as long as the average for lung transplant patients

(Newser) - Before her double-lung transplant, Joanne Mellady could barely put on a shirt without losing her breath. Afterward, she barely stopped moving. Mellady, who died of the coronavirus in March, had a bucket list that made her family blush, the AP reports. Since getting her transplant in 2007, the widow and...

Amid Pandemic, Strange New Proms Go on

High schoolers are finding ways to have their milestone in isolation

(Newser) - In party dresses or come as you are, with colored lights flashing in their bedrooms and teachers-turned-DJs spinning, high schoolers have turned to virtual proms to salvage at least one slice of fun and tradition for the Class of 2020. And they’re getting help from familiar brands like Teen ...

'I'm Not That Scared': Crowds Hit Calif. Beaches

Temperatures near 90 degrees as tens of thousands of people emerge

(Newser) - A lingering heat wave lured people to Southern California beaches, rivers, and trails again Sunday, prompting warnings from officials that defiance of stay-at-home orders could reverse progress and bring the coronavirus surging back, the AP reports. Tens of thousands of people packed the sand at Newport Beach in Orange County,...

White House Aides Trumpet New Strategy
White House Has
New Trump Strategy
Apr 26, 2020 4:05 PM CDT

White House Has New Trump Strategy

GOP polling shows that his path to 2020 victory depends on one thing

(Newser) - After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the pandemic, the AP reports. Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the injection of...

Navajo Fight Crushing Battle Against Coronavirus

Their infection rate is America's third-highest

(Newser) - The Navajo are battling America's third-highest coronavirus infection rate after New York and New Jersey as they scramble to treat the sick—and it's clearly an uphill battle, NPR reports. Their challenges include lack of hospital space, lack of nursing, lack of equipment, and facilities that simply aren'...

Mayor: I'm So Sorry for My 'Lapse in Judgement'

Texas Mayor Becky Ames violated her own stay-at-home order

(Newser) - Whoops: A Texas mayor was spotted this week breaking her own stay-at-home order by visiting a nail salon, NBC News reports. A photo appeared on social media of Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames wearing a mask as she got a manicure Tuesday at the Nail Bar. "I promise there was...

Coronavirus, Caused by a 'Lab Accident'? Hmmm.

It's not a popular notion among experts who talk to NPR

(Newser) - The coronavirus pandemic was almost certainly not triggered by a lab accident, scientists tell NPR —despite concerns to the contrary floating around Washington. "Every time we get a new virus emerging, we have people that say, 'This could have come from a lab,'" says Peter...

Official List of Possible Signs of Coronavirus Infection Grows

Sore throat, muscle pain and chills are added

(Newser) - The list of possible symptoms of the coronavirus has grown. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its official list of indicators, CBS reports, which had been just fever, cough and shortness of breath. The last one has been elaborated on, as well. The signs that you might have...

Children Make Joyous Return to Outdoors

There were rules: 1 parent, 1 toy, 1 hour

(Newser) - Shrieks of joy rang out Sunday in the streets of Spain as children were allowed to leave their homes for the first time in six weeks. The sound of children shouting and the rattle of bikes on the pavement after the 44-day seclusion of Spain's youngest citizens offered a...

First, Double the Testing, Fauci Says

Doctor expects to reach that level in the next few weeks

(Newser) - The US is conducting 1.5 million to 2 million coronavirus tests a week, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, which sounds like a lot. But he said that's only halfway to the level the nation needs. "We probably should get up to twice that as we get into the...

Boris Johnson Goes Back to Work
Boris Johnson
'Raring to Go' 
Apr 26, 2020 8:53 AM CDT

Boris Johnson 'Raring to Go'

PM returns to the job Monday after recovering from coronavirus

(Newser) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to work at 10 Downing St. on Monday after recovering from the coronavirus that put him in intensive care, with his government facing growing criticism over the deaths and disruption it has caused. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who the AP reports has been...

Trump: Pressers Not Worth the 'Time and Effort'

President skips Saturday's press briefing after complaint, amid concerns he's overexposed

(Newser) - Don't expect to see so much of President Trump at White House press conferences on the coronavirus, because the commander in chief sounds like he's sick of them amid reports that there might be a pullback on them anyway : "What is the purpose of having White House...

IRS to Workers: Come Back. (Bring Your Own Face Masks)

IRS is asking 10K employees to come back to work for incentive pay

(Newser) - The IRS is asking about 10,000 employees it deems "mission-critical" to come back to work beginning Monday, reports Politico , an "initial wave" that will task workers with "opening taxpayer correspondence, handling tax documents, taking taxpayer telephone calls, and performing other functions related to the filing season....

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