Wednesday's Headlines: Asian American doctors and nurses report a sharp increase in racist verbal abuse and physical attacks
Elderly covid-19 patients on ventilators usually do not survive, N.Y. hospitals report; Trump expresses opposition to extending unemployment benefits enacted in response to pandemic; CDC guidelines, released at last, offer low-key guide to reopening; The pandemic may forever change the world's cities; Moderna claimed favorable results in its vaccine trial. It needs to release the data.; I have no choice but to take hydroxychloroquine. Trump has a choice.; If Trump likes hydroxychloroquine, he'll love camel urine ; We're all poorer now. Nothing the government does can fix that.; New guidance on campus sexual assault is ill-timed. But it isn't a return to the old days.; President Trump, stop acting like you own the place; Trump's preferred construction firm lands $1.3 billion border wall contract, the biggest so far; EPA staff warned mileage rollbacks had flaws. Trump officials ignored them.; Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko; A Mississippi pastor with eight kids and no professional music background won 'The Voice' — and made show history; Woman behind Roe v. Wade got paid to embrace antiabortion movement, new documentary shows; Dating right now raises a new set of concerns. And a new kind of dealbreaker.
The racial hostility has left Asian Americans in a painful position on the front lines of the response to the pandemic. Some covid-19 patients refuse to be treated by them. And when doctors and nurses leave the hospital, they face increasing harassment in their daily lives.
A study confirmed that advanced age is the greatest risk factor for a severe outcome, particularly if accompanied by chronic underlying diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
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Many economists fear cutting off the extension could hamper the economic recovery, but Republicans have maintained that the higher benefit will give workers an incentive to stay at home rather than go to work.
The imperatives of social distancing have plunged the world into a giant experiment in remote work, and some office workers may never want to return to the stresses, steep housing costs and public health risks associated with life in a dense, big city.
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A North Dakota construction firm that has received backing from President Trump has secured the largest border wall contract ever awarded to build 42 miles of black-painted fencing through the rugged mountains of southern Arizona.
The behind-the-scenes skirmish in late March between career employees and Trump appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency, revealed in documents, highlights the extent to which administration officials are racing to reverse environmental policies.
Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, a former member of a pro-Russia faction who met with Rudolph Giuliani in Kyiv last year, said he got the tapes from "investigative journalists."
Norma McCorvey, known as Jane Roe in the Supreme Court case legalizing abortion, before advocating against abortion, calls herself "a good actress" in a new documentary airing Friday on FX.
While many people have said they are having more meaningful conversations without physical interactions, meeting in real life eventually comes up, and with it, different interpretations of public health guidelines.
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