Halfpoint / Shutterstock.com Spending on home improvements grew in 2020, driven both by higher costs for labor and materials and by homeowners’ shifting priorities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Spending averaged $ 8,305 — up by $ 745 from 2019, according to HomeAdvisor’s latest annual State of Home Spending report. The …
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Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com After a miserable year in the dark night of a pandemic, a new day is about to dawn. Millions of Americans have received the vaccine against COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. And the rest of us will have our opportunity soon. If you can’t wait …
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Minister of Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing announced last week that 40 vaccination centres will be set up in Singapore by end-March this year, with an aim to have one community vaccination centre in each HDB estate. Each centre can deliver about 2,000 vaccinations a day. This is on …
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People who have already been sick with Covid-19 should still be vaccinated, experts say, but they may experience intense side effects even after one dose. Shannon Romano, a molecular biologist, came down with Covid late last March, about a week after she and her colleagues shut down their lab at …
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On Jan. 5, Hank Aaron, the legendary home run hitter, posted on Twitter that he had been vaccinated for the coronavirus at the Morehouse School of Medicine, along with other prominent civil rights figures in Atlanta who were 75 or older and thus part of the group at the highest …
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The deaths add to what is becoming a familiar trend in the spread of the virus as it devastates religious congregate communities by infecting retired, aging populations of nuns and sisters. The religious sisters who lived in retired seclusion at the Dominican Life Center in Michigan followed strict rules to …
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Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Danielle Reed stopped counting after the 156th email arrived in a single afternoon. It was late March, and her laboratory at the Monell Chemical …
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Medical professionals questioned how well the individual plastic bubbles protected band members and concertgoers from the coronavirus. There are Covid-19 bubbles — small clusters of friends or family who agree to socialize exclusively with each other during the pandemic — and then there are the kinds of bubbles the Flaming …
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How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Spending 2020 under the shadow of a pandemic has affected what we need and expect from technology. For many, COVID-19 accelerated the rate of digital transformation: as …
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