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Day: March 31, 2020

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Johnson hails return of 20,000 former NHS staff

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And last week an organ transplant consultant died after testing positive for the virus. Prof Andrew Goddard, the head of the Royal College of Physicians, said “about one in four” of its workforce was currently off work, either with symptoms or isolating because family members have symptoms. “I’ve got lots of colleagues sitting at home with family members. They themselves don’t have symptoms and are chomping at the bit to try and get back to work,” he said, adding that widespread testing would mean staff who are well can return…

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Keanu Reeves’ Girlfriend Alexandra Grant Breaks Silence On Relationship In Rare Vogue Interview! – Perez Hilton

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Back in November the entire Internet was shocked to learn Keanu Reeves When asked about the reaction to the couple’s sort of debut at the 2019 LACMA Art + Film Gala, she revealed the surprise wasn’t limited to strangers — apparently they’ve been so private a lot of her friends didn’t know either! She recalled: “I think every single person I knew called me in the first week of November, and that’s fascinating. But the question I’ve been asking in all of this is: ‘What is the opportunity for good?’” Well, so…

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The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus

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In the past few days, New York City’s hospitals have become unrecognizable. Thousands of patients sick with the novel coronavirus have swarmed into emergency rooms and intensive care units. From 3,000 miles away in Seattle, as Lisa Brandenburg watched the scenes unfold—isolation wards cobbled together in lobbies, nurses caring for Covid-19 patients in makeshift trash bag gowns, refrigerated mobile morgues idling on the street outside—she couldn’t stop herself from thinking: “That could be us.” It could be, if the models are wrong. Until this past week, Seattle had been the…

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Your Coffee And Chocolate Habit Could Be Fueling Malaria

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Many of the world’s favorite food and drinks – such as coffee, chocolate, and soy – could be fanning the flames of malaria, according to a new study. Products such as coffee, cocoa, tobacco, tea, beef, soybeans, and palm oil require huge amounts of land to satisfy intense demand from developed countries and help to fuel forest clearing in many tropical regions of the world. The environmental cost of deforestation is fairly widely understood, but what does it have to do with malaria?  Previous research has shown that deforestation can help create the ideal conditions…

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Here Are 10 Vegan Beauty Brands You Need To Know About

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By The Honest Company Lacey Ramburger Updated March 29, 2020 PSA 📣 We’re SO excited to announce that we are now available @urbanoutfitters 🤩 We have select skincare & color faves on urbanoutfitters.com now, and we will be available in select stores soon. Who’s excited?! ✨ Where would you like to see your fave @honest_beauty products next? 🤔 Drop it below! #CleanBeautyThatWorks #ThatsHonest #crueltyfree #UOBeauty A post shared by Honest Beauty (@honest_beauty) on Feb 20, 2020 at 10:40am PST Honest Beauty has an incredible line up of products that cover…

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The Heart of a Radiation Therapist During Covid-19

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ShareTweetPin I only post about things that are near and dear to my heart, and being a Radiation Therapist is one of those things. And here we are.  In the middle of a pandemic of the likes we have never seen in our years, and we hope to never see again.  The adversities, challenges, fears, and panic are all-consuming at this point.  We are asked to stay home.  To take social distancing seriously.  To stay up to date on all the news and information that is available. Yet, as Radiation…

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This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For

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The shock itself is shocking. Shouldn’t we have been more prepared? Hasn’t culture been drenched in catastrophe porn for decades? The bomb. The breakdown. The fallout. The senseless armies of shambling corpses, all the nightmares of dead generations sliding out of our screens. For more than a decade, young and young-ish people have been living in anticipatory grief for everything we know. But somehow, this is different. The idea of imminent annihilating catastrophe has been part of the collective unconscious for as long as we've had one. From the end…

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The Covid-19 Pandemic Aggravates Disputes Around Gig Work

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The rapidly spreading novel coronavirus is supercharging a debate about the treatment of gig workers. The relief bill signed Friday by President Trump will provide a short-term lifeline. But some workers for companies such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Amazon worry the help won’t come soon enough. Today, many gig workers are considered independent contractors, not entitled to workers’ compensation, health care benefits, or sick pay. Because their employers don't pay into unemployment insurance, the workers haven’t been able to obtain those benefits either. Many app-based companies have established…

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This Is Why Ofcom Is Recommending You Give The Microwave A Rest During Lockdown

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The year is 2020. After watching parts of the planet burn and the arrival of a global pandemic, just to top it all off, your internet stops working. Will the atrocities never end? As an estimated one-third of the global population is forced to stay at home and wait out the outbreak, the comfort blankets of streaming services are placing “unprecedented” pressure on internet providers. Online entertainment services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix have reported that they’re reducing the streaming quality of programs to try and maintain the service as…

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What The ‘Gossip Girl’ Characters Would Be Doing During Quarantine | Betches

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With coronavirus ruining all of my springtime plans, I’ve officially reached my limit on self-entertainment. A girl can only buy so many new bags and eat so much caviar in one day, especially when my private pilot refuses to fly me to France. People are just so rude these days. Anyway, in order to get myself through this depressing time, I’m turning to Manhattan’s elite because if anyone’s wreaking havoc during this quarantine, it’s going to be them. Being hot and wealthy is just predictable. Still, what our favorites lack…

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“I Pulled in a Rest Area. I Saw Two Girls About 7 or 8 Climb in a Pick-up. Mom Ran Towards Me Waving Her Hands for Me to Stop”: Truck Driver Touched By Strangers Kindness During Hard Times

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ShareTweetPin “Gonna take me longer to post this, cause I can’t voice text it, not with this lump in my throat… Coming back from St. Louis this afternoon, pulled off in a rest area to take a break. I noticed a pick-up pulled in and parked at the end of the lot. As I climbed back in my semi to leave, I noticed two girls, I’d say around the age of 7-8 years old, climb in the back of the pick-up and pull out two cardboard signs they made. I…

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