Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 28: Pandemic Fraud At Least $9 Billion, Actor Thrown Off Plane for Refusing to Sit Next to Person Wearing a Mask
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by Jonathan Spira
7h ago
Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,478th day. In news we cover today, a very drunk actor was thrown off a flight leaving Texas after he refused to sit next to a passenger who had donned a face mask, the IRS says that pandemic fraud in the United States cost as much as $9 billion, and passengers were dying on the Zaandam cruise ship four years ago as it struggled to return to Florida. TODAY IN COVID HISTORY On March 28, 2020, the ill-fated voyage of the Za ..read more
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New York Auto Show Returns for 2024 Promising an ‘Electrifying Experience’
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by Paul Riegler
20h ago
NEW YORK — The New York International Auto Show returns once again to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and electric vehicles and new cars from Korea are commanding the spotlight. Show organizers are promising an “electrifying” experience to visitors. “The automotive industry is in the midst of a seismic shift towards electrification, and nowhere is this more evident than at the New York Auto Show’s EV Test Track,” the group that runs the show, the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association., said in a statement. “As manufacturers showcase their latest electric vehicles on the track ..read more
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Summer Time in Europe for 2024 to Start This Weekend
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by Paul Riegler
2d ago
Another confirmation that spring is indeed  here comes this Sunday when Europeans spring forward. This weekend, clocks in the European Union will change on Sunday at 1 a.m. GMT. At that time, which is 2 a.m. in Central Europe, clocks should be set ahead by one hour. In the United States, Daylight Saving Time started two weeks earlier on March 17 at 2 a.m. The change puts both sides of the Atlantic back in sync after a two-week period that followed the switch in most of the United States and Canada. Summer Time, known as Sommerzeit in Austria and Germany and British Summer Time or BST ..read more
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Did You Reach the Minimum Daily Recommended Fruit Intake Today? Here Are Eight Fruits Experts Recommend That You Will Enjoy
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by Paul Riegler
2d ago
Did you meet your minimum daily fruit intake today?  Or even yesterday… or last week? Come to think of it, do you even know what the guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake are? According to the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, prepared by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, adults should consume 1.5-2 cup- (3.75 ml-500 ml)-equivalents of fruits and 2–3 cup- (500 ml to 750 ml)-equivalents of vegetables daily. All dietary experts agree that a healthy diet supports proper immune function and helps prevent obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseas ..read more
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 26: New Moderna Vaccine Shows Improved Results, What Bill Gates Said About Covid Four Years Ago
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by Jonathan Spira
2d ago
Students on campus, known as the grounds, of the University of Virginia Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,476th day. In news we cover today, a look back four years ago revealed a world where one-third of the population was living under some form of coronavirus pandemic-related restrictions, Bill Gates warned that the pandemic would not be over quickly, Moderna’s newly formulated coronavirus vaccine triggers a stronger immune response than current versi ..read more
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Intoxicated Actor Refuses to Sit Next to Sober Passenger Wearing Face Mask on Flight From (‘Uh, Where the Hell Am I at’) Houston Airport
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by Anna Breuer
2d ago
A Southwest jet taking off in Newark. The airline is the dominant carrier at Houston’s Hobby Airport. An actor who apparently doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia page was kicked off a flight departing from an unnamed Houston Airport on Saturday. Forrie Jordan Smith, who regularly appears on the neo-Western drama “Yellowstone,” said in a video he posted on Instagram that he had been removed from a flight and left stranded in Space City for refusing to sit next to an already-seated passenger who was wearing a face mask, although he seemed to be unable to recall quite where he was at one point of th ..read more
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Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses into Baltimore’s Patapsco River After Freighter Loses Power, Hits Support Column
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by Kurt Stolz
3d ago
The Curtis Bay Yards Bridge carries Interstate 895 over CSX’s Curtis Bay Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. and is an approach to the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel that runs under the Patapsco River, the same river that the Key Bridge carried traffic over until Tuesday’s partial collapse. A major bridge in Baltimore that carries Interstate 695 traffic collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship early Tuesday morning, causing bridge workers to plunge into the icy waters below, local authorities said. The accident, which took place at 1:30 a.m. EDT, set off an emergency response, with the Coast Guard an ..read more
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 25: Head of U.N. Relief Efforts Says Long Covid is Forcing His Retirement, BioNTech Gets Default Notice from NIH
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by Jonathan Spira
3d ago
The New York City Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. The U.N. General Assembly used the building from 1946 to 1950. Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,479th day. In news we cover today, the head of the United Nations relief organization is retiring after announcing he has Long Covid, Pfizer partner BioNTech is in default of its royalty agreement with the NIH, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a ..read more
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Boeing CEO, Other Top Execs, to Resign in Management Shakeup After Blowout of 737 Max Door Plug
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by Paul Riegler
4d ago
An early test version of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Dallas Three senior Boeing executives including CEO Dave Calhoun are stepping down, the beleaguered company said Monday. The news comes as the company continues to deal with an ongoing scandal and federal investigation into the safety of its passenger jets following the blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max passenger jet in mid-flight. As part of the shakeup, Stan Deal, the president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has retired with immediate effect. Larry Kellner, chairman of the company’s board of directors, will not stand ..read more
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A ‘Worm Moon’ Eclipse and Auroras Lighted Up the Weekend Skies
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by Kurt Stolz
4d ago
The night sky lighted up in the wee hours of Monday morning for several celestial events ahead of the highly anticipated solar eclipse in early April. In addition to Friday night’s coronal mass ejection from the sun’s outermost layer, which caused a “severe” geomagnetic storm that was observed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sunday evening, and auroras, naturally-occurring light displays caused by disruptions in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by the solar wind, which are expected to continue into Monday night. Sunday night saw the rise of the first full Moon of spr ..read more
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