With this week's coronavirus-driven rout having shaken awake previously slu...
With this week's coronavirus-driven rout having shaken awake previously slu...
The Dow industrials posted the largest-ever points drop on Thursday as Wall Stre...
Fear of the spreading coronavirus has led to a global run on sales of face masks despite medical experts' advice that most people who aren't sick don't need to wear them. Many businesses are sold out, while others are limiting how many a customer can buy. Amazon is policing its site, trying to make sure sellers don't gouge panicked buyers. In South Korea, hundreds lined up to buy masks from a discount store. Rumors that toilet paper and napkins could be used as masks have emptied store shelves in Asia of paper goods over the past few weeks. Ordinary people trying to protect themselves from the outbreak are not the only ones encountering shortages. Some health care professionals are seeing them as well. Some industry officials are attributing the shortages not just to high demand but to disruptions in supply: An outsize share of the world's surgical masks are made in China - 50%, by its own estimate - and some of the factories are in or near the hard-hit city of Wuhan and have been shut down for weeks because of the crisis, they said. In the U.S., Walgreens, Home Depot, Lowe's and True Value Hardware are reporting a sharp uptick in sales of masks over the past several weeks and say they are scrambling to get more from suppliers to keep up with demand. Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement chain, has limited sales of N95 respirators to 10 per person. They have a close facial fit and more filtration material than general surgical masks, enabling them to keep out at least 95% of particles. Marc Jaconksi, owner of Stanley's True Value Hardware and Rental store in Philadelphia, said he saw a surge in demand for masks, particularly the N95, two weeks ago. But since Tuesday, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the...
With spring and summer coming, some Americans are concerned about or reconsidering their travel plans as the novel coronavirus continues to spread.
With spring and summer coming, some Americans are concerned about or reconsidering their travel plans as the novel coronavirus continues to spread.
When word of the coronavirus first spread, and people didn't realize its deadly potential, it was popular to poke fun about it being contracted by drinking Corona beer. But as the virus has caused concern and panic across the globe, the Mexican brew which shares a similar name has taken a hit in profits and popularity. CORONAVIRUS BACKLASH: Crude sinks to lowest in a year as coronavirus panic increases The Dallas Morning News recently reported...
Geraldo Rivera slammed Democrats and members of the media for using the coronavirus outbreak to promote "fear" and hurt President Trump, calling those people "scumbags."
Trump is vilified for singing from the same hymnal as Democrats in New York and California.
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As the number of new coronavirus cases drop and life-or-death fears subside for many Chinese, the country is beginning to confront a new challenge—the psychological strain of hundreds of millions of lives overturned by the government’s war on the virus.