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The Comprehensive List Of Netflix Shows To Watch While Social Distancing | Betches

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every college I know has switched to remote/online learning, governors across the country are shutting down schools, workplaces are mandating Luckily for introverts and lazy people alike, one of the most recommended ways to prevent further spread of the virus is to stay at home unless absolutely necessary. Seriously, just don’t leave your house if you can. If this is our generation’s war (as I’ve seen some tweets call it), at least we can fight it by sitting on our couches instead of going into trenches. While you might think…

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Chloroquine May Fight Covid-19and Silicon Valleys Into It

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The chatter about a promising drug to fight Covid-19 started, as chatter often does (but science does not), on Twitter. A blockchain investor named James Todaro Google doc he’d cowritten, explaining the idea. What Is the Coronavirus? Plus: How can I avoid catching it? Is Covid-19 more deadly than the flu? Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer your questions. nearly a dozen drugs to treat coronavirus are in clinical trials in China, just one—remdesivir, an antiviral that was in trials against Ebola and the coronavirus MERS—is in linked to Todaro’s Google document;…

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Can a face mask protect me from coronavirus? Covid-19 myths busted

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The truth about how you can catch coronavirus, how much more elderly people are at risk and what you can do to avoid infection Claim: Face masks dont work Wearing a face mask is certainly not an iron-clad guarantee that you wont get sick viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, known as aerosols, can penetrate masks. However, masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is a main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly fivefold protection versus no barrier alone (although…

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Family embraces social distancing to wish grandmother, 95, a happy birthday

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(CNN)When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But her family did not want her special day to pass by without celebration, so on Wednesday they decided to wish her a happy birthday — all from a safe distance. “We had to keep our distance but we couldn’t not see our best girl on her birthday!!!” Kathleen’s granddaughter, Sara Byrne, wrote on Instagram. “Happy 95th Gram we love you SO much!!!” A heartwarming video shows family members — with balloons, decorations and party hats — lined up outside her front yard…

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7 New Songs to Help You Feel Less Socially Distant

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Music is insistent on the collective. The best music is built on community, and what truly gives any particular song staying power is how it’s regarded among the masses. Sure, we carry songs with us as we go about our day, shuffling through them on Spotify or assembling playlists on Soundcloud for personal pleasure. We like to tell ourselves that they exist in a vacuum, that sometimes these aural trinkets are just for us. Intimacy certainly affords your favorite songs a particular fire, but, ultimately, it is the spirit of…

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This is a war: Cuomo warns coronavirus could overwhelm New York healthcare

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New York has been hit hardest, with around confirmed 3,000 cases, but governor estimates there could be tens of thousands more cases New Yorks governor, Andrew Cuomo, warned on Thursday morning that he expects the healthcare system in the state to be overwhelmed as cases of Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) NY Governor orders 75 percent of the states workforce to stay home. March 19, 2020 The stress is just incredible, and rightfully so, he said, acknowledging the bewildering disruption to daily life for most of the states 19 million population. The…

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Two Canadian provinces declare state of emergency as Covid-19 fears deepen

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Cases in British Columbia almost double in one day, while Ontario premier says it faces danger of major proportions Two provinces in Canada have declared states of emergency and another witnessed a surge in coronavirus cases as fears of a widespread outbreak nationwide continue to deepen. As prime minister Justin Trudeau prepares to unleash a stimulus package worth at least C$20bn (US$14bn), British Columbia announced another 83 confirmed cases on Tuesday afternoon, bringing the provinces total confirmed Covid-19 infections to 186. In her daily briefing, provincial health officer Dr Bonnie…

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Pompeo says State Department employees tested positive for coronavirus as he blasts Iran and China over ‘disinformation’

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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday a “handful” of State Department employees have tested positive for the coronavirus in the first official acknowledgement that his staff has been directly affected by the pandemic. Pompeo also focused on America’s geopolitical foes Iran and China in connection to the pandemic, claiming that Iran has been lying about the impact of the outbreak and, like China, has been falsely trying to blame the virus on the US. Iranian leaders have “lied about the Wuhan virus for weeks, the Iranian leadership is…

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