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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Adobe is terminating its Flash software today, and with it will go Zynga’s original FarmVille game from 2009. That brings to an end an era of social gaming that will be remembered in history with mixed emotions. Some people hated the spammy nature of FarmVille and its boring gameplay, while …
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This briefing has ended. Click here for the latest updates. Here’s what you need to know: Global virus deaths surpass 800,000, with South and Central American countries seeing large tallies. The filming of a movie starring Ben Affleck shifts to Canada because of the virus outbreak in the U.S. The …
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Here’s what you need to know: Half a million people are dead as confirmed virus cases top 10 million. Paranoid hallucinations plague many virus patients who end up in the I.C.U. At a Houston hospital bracing for a virus peak, new patients are often young. Most affluent countries are keeping …
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They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear, driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg to check on patients who are at home, five or six days into being sick with the coronavirus. They take a blood test, looking for signs that a patient is about to go …
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A 69-year-old New Jersey man who on Tuesday became the first person in the Northeast to die after contracting the coronavirus had gone to his doctor last week complaining of a fever and a cough, officials said. He was treated with antibiotics and Tamiflu, an antiviral medication given to alleviate …
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LONDON — A Chinese tourist has died in France of the coronavirus, the French health minister said on Saturday, becoming the outbreak’s first fatality in Europe and outside Asia. France’s health minister, Agnès Buzyn, said the tourist, who was 80 years old and from the Chinese province of Hubei, the …
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ESSEX, Mont. — The long freight trains climb slowly over Marias Pass, through snow-draped mountains south of Glacier National Park and north of the Great Bear Wilderness, snaking through some of the wildest country in the Lower 48. Some 25 trains a day, each a chain of 90 to 120 …
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