Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Will Gilead price its coronavirus drug for public good or company profit?
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc faces a new dilemma in deciding how much it should profit from the only treatment so far proven to help patients infected with the novel coronavirus. T...
May 06, 2020
Facebook names first members of oversight board that can overrule Zuckerberg
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's new content oversight board will include a former head of state, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and several constitutional law experts and rights advoca...
May 06, 2020
New York governor says some states making a mistake by reopening
(Reuters) - States that are reopening their economies despite rising infection rates for the novel coronavirus are making a mistake, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday, urging that such ...
May 06, 2020
New coronavirus adapts to populations; vaccine works in monkeys
By Nancy Lapid NEW YORK (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness cau...
May 06, 2020
Howard and Lois, reunited: Elderly couple separated by virus finally meet again
By Joshua Schneyer and Caitlin Ochs NEW PALTZ, New York (Reuters) - For 56 days, the coronavirus pandemic kept Howard Smith apart from Lois Kittson, his wife of half a century. Their separation ended ...
May 06, 2020
WHO warns of new lockdowns if transition not managed carefully
ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned of the risks of returning to lockdown if countries emerging from pandemic restrictions do not manage trans...
May 06, 2020
Democrats want $25 billion for U.S. Postal Service: Hoyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats would like to see $25 billion for the U.S. Postal Service in the next major coronavirus legislation before the House of Representatives, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer sa...
May 06, 2020
U.S. judge dismisses lawsuit over worker safety at Smithfield pork plant
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a worker advocacy group's lawsuit accusing Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's largest pork processor, of failing to adequately protect ...
May 06, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court’s Ginsburg takes part in arguments after treatment
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at 87 the oldest member of the U.S. Supreme Court, participated in oral arguments on Wednesday a day after being...
May 06, 2020
Trump says will keep coronavirus task force indefinitely
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the White House coronavirus task force would continue its work on the pandemic, focusing on vaccines and therapeutics, a day after ...
May 06, 2020
