May 05 Coronavirus fears may lead to big gap year for college students By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report Many students have a simpler reason than travel or work for considering a gap year: They consider it better than spending a semester or even a year taking college classes online. Continue reading
May 05 Additional 1,700 coronavirus-related deaths reported in New York nursing homes By Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press New York state is now reporting more than 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as the state faces scrutiny over how it’s protected vulnerable residents during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
May 05 WATCH: Trump tours Honeywell face mask factory in Phoenix By Darlene Superville, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin, Associated Press Trump is scheduled to travel to Arizona Tuesday to visit a Honeywell facility that makes N95 masks in what the president suggests will mark the return to more regular travel. Continue reading
May 05 Korean baseball season begins in empty stadiums By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press The new baseball season has begun in South Korea with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher’s mitt echoing around empty stadiums. Continue reading
May 05 COVID-19 tracing apps come with privacy trade-offs By Christina Larson, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Many governments eager to reopen their societies are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
May 05 Coronavirus returns long-banned drive-in movies to Iran By Mehdi Fattahi, Nasser Karimi, Associated Press The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theater. Continue reading
May 05 How contact tracing can help the U.S. get control over coronavirus By Laura Santhanam Testing alone without extensive contact tracing is not enough to control COVID-19, public health experts say. But people's memories can quickly complicate the detective work required to mitigate a pandemic. Continue reading
May 04 Americans see toll of the pandemic on shopping malls By Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press Many Americans are getting their first taste of what pandemic shopping looks like at their local mall. Continue reading
May 04 Watch 4:03 Businesses in the U.S., Europe begin opening doors to a new chapter By Stephanie Sy The start of a new week marked more reopenings across the United States, whose death toll from COVID-19 is now over 68,000. In Washington, D.C., the Senate returned to the Capitol, while the House remained at recess due to the… Continue watching
May 04 Watch 8:08 Grim new projections forecast 'explosive growth' in COVID-19 cases, deaths With the U.S. coronavirus death toll now over 68,000, some fatality projections referenced by the Trump administration have already been surpassed. Roughly 2,000 Americans are dying from the disease every day -- and that number could still rise. Pulitzer Prize-winning… Continue watching