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Month: April 2020

NYPD ‘backs the scrubs’ and gives send-off to visiting health workers

NYPD ‘backs the scrubs’ and gives send-off to visiting health workers

Members of the NYPD cheered as visiting health workers headed to their last shifts on April 22, 2020, in New York City. – (WABC)By AARON KATERSKY and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — They traveled from all over the country to lend a helping hand to the Big Apple. […]

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Coronavirus updates: Officials find earliest known US COVID-19 deaths

Coronavirus updates: Officials find earliest known US COVID-19 deaths

narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 177,000 people worldwide. Over 2.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center […]

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New severe weather outbreak expected across South, including tornadoes

New severe weather outbreak expected across South, including tornadoes

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe thunderstorms moved through the I-95 corridor Tuesday from Baltimore to southern New England, which produced damaging winds and hail. The storms even triggered a tornado warning in the New York City metro area. Monmouth County, New Jersey, had the highest […]

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‘NYS Clean’ hand sanitizer prison laborer diagnosed with coronavirus

‘NYS Clean’ hand sanitizer prison laborer diagnosed with coronavirus

MivPiv/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Earlier this month, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility began to notice some of the other prisoners were getting sick. Fearful for his life, he called his wife, Renee Evans-Henry. Evans-Henry said her husband was afraid that the coronavirus had made […]

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Michigan prisoner who served 44 years died from coronavirus days before release

Michigan prisoner who served 44 years died from coronavirus days before release

DanHenson1/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(DETROIT) — Yolanda Peterson says she had prepared a room in her Michigan home for her brother, eagerly anticipating his release from prison after serving 44 years for a murder that initially got him a sentence of life without parole when he was barely old enough […]

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Pandemic could cause famines of ‘biblical proportions’

Pandemic could cause famines of ‘biblical proportions’

jarun011/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 176,000 people worldwide. Over 2.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to […]

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Donald Trump Addresses Media During Tuesday Coronavirus Task Force Meeting

Donald Trump Addresses Media During Tuesday Coronavirus Task Force Meeting

SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday, the White House Coronavirus Task Force again addressed the media with the latest information on COVID-19 in the United States. United States President Donald Trump led off the proceedings by saying the Senate planned the Paycheck Protection Program (funding for hospitals and testing) with the following figures: […]

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Michiganders who make their livings outdoors sound off on COVID-19 orders

Michiganders who make their livings outdoors sound off on COVID-19 orders

Courtesy of Karin Zona By JAMES HILL, ABC NEWS (STURGIS, Mich.) — From his home in Sturgis, Michigan, Mark Zona looks out at the choppy waters of Klinger Lake with a mixture of puzzlement and worry. “It is crippling for me to not be on the water right now,” said […]

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Body found believed to be missing Colorado camper

Body found believed to be missing Colorado camper

SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — Utah search and rescue crews have found the body of a 44-year-old Colorado camper who was missing for several weeks. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Daggett County Sheriff Erik Bailey said Leonard Corby “Corb” Fisher was found Monday about 2.5 miles […]

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Utah buys malaria drugs touted by Trump, panned by doctors

Utah buys malaria drugs touted by Trump, panned by doctors

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State officials say Utah will buy 200,000 treatments of malaria drugs widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus despite warnings from doctors that the medications shouldn’t be used until more testing is done. Utah Department of Health spokesman Tom Hudachko said […]

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