How to watch tonight’s ‘The Color of Covid’ special
CNN and other news outlets have reported that African American communities in places like Detroit, Chicago, Louisiana, New Jersey and across the country have been hit especially hard by the…
U.S. banks seek term changes as Fed finalizes Main Street Lending Program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. banks are pushing the Federal Reserve to change the terms of a $600 billion lending program for small and medium-sized businesses, including reducing minimum loan sizes…
Walmart to hire 50,000 more workers in coronavirus-driven hiring spree
(Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) said on Friday it would hire 50,000 more workers at its stores, clubs and distribution centers to meet a surge in demand for groceries and…
China reports 27 new coronavirus cases, death toll at 4,632 after data revisions
People wearing protective face masks leave work after office hours in Central Business District, as the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Beijing, China, April 17, 2020.…
10 coronavirus-unit nurses are suspended, potentially for weeks, for refusing to work without N95 masks
Two nurses at PSJHC told CNN that they, along with eight other nurses, were suspended with pay after refusing to enter coronavirus patient rooms on April 9 without N95 masks.…
The CDC illustrators who gave the coronavirus its face
When medical illustrators Alissa Eckert and Dan Higgins at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started working on an illustration of the novel coronavirus, little did they realize that…
GM dispatches first batch of ventilators for COVID-19 patients
The first production ventilators are seen at the General Motors Kokomo manufacturing facility in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kokomo, Indiana, U.S. April 13, 2020. AJ Mast/General…
China crude oil runs hit 15-month low as virus cripples demand
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s daily crude oil throughput in March sank to a 15-month low with state refiners maintaining deep output cuts as the coronavirus pandemic erodes demand, but there…
Protests are popping up across the country over stay-at-home restrictions
Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina and Utah — states led by both Republican and Democratic governors — have all seen protests in recent days as people grow more concerned…
Coronavirus set to usher in big changes at U.S. offices
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The novel coronavirus may do to U.S. office rentals what e-commerce did to malls, or so goes a line of thinking running through commercial real estate…