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N.B.A. Investigating After Jeremy Lin Said He Was Called ‘Coronavirus’

The N.B.A. G League said on Friday that it was investigating a report by Jeremy Lin, one of the best-known Asian-American players in basketball, that he had been called “coronavirus” on the court. Lin disclosed the slur in a Facebook post on Thursday in which he denounced the racism and discrimination faced by Asian-Americans. It […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 27, 2021, 12:05 am
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Opinion | The Final Push to End the Coronavirus Pandemic in the U.S.

Vaccines have brought the United States tantalizingly close to crushing the coronavirus within its borders. After months of hiccups, some 1.4 million people are now being vaccinated every day, and many more shots are coming through the pipeline. The Food and Drug Administration is soon expected to authorize a third vaccine — a single-dose shot […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 7:19 pm
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Opinion | The Secret Life of a Coronavirus

“A Contagious Living Fluid” For thousands of years, people knew of viruses only through the illnesses they caused. Doctors gave these diseases names like smallpox, rabies and influenza. When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered at drops of water with his microscope in the late 1600s, he discovered bacteria and other minuscule wonders, but he could not […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 3:12 pm
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Positive Coronavirus Tests Decline in N.Y., but Variants Loom

Weather: Sunny, with a high in the mid-40s. It’ll be a wet weekend, near 50 on Saturday and cooler on Sunday. Alternate-side parking: Suspended today for Purim. The number of New Yorkers testing positive for the coronavirus has declined precipitously since the peak of the holiday surge, but the state still has a long way […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 5:40 am
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The Coronavirus Is Plotting a Comeback. Here’s Our Chance to Stop It for Good.

Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases, hospitalizations and deaths has yo-yoed before, but never has it plunged so steeply and so fast. Is this it, then? Is this the beginning of the end? After a year of being pummeled by grim […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 25, 2021, 6:30 pm
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A New Coronavirus Variant Is Spreading in New York, Researchers Report

A new form of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly in New York City, and it carries a worrisome mutation that may weaken the effectiveness of vaccines, two teams of researchers have found. The new variant, called B.1.526, first appeared in samples collected in the city in November. By the middle of this month, it accounted […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 24, 2021, 9:06 pm
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Coronavirus Vaccine Finder Aims to Help Americans Get Shots

Despite the progress, though, getting appointments for vaccinations has been a source of great frustration for many people. Appointment slots are filled within minutes of becoming available. States, local health departments and pharmacy chains have their own sign-up websites that in many cases do not share data with one another. The C.D.C. has its own […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 24, 2021, 8:53 pm
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105-Year Old Woman Survived Spanish Flu, and Now, Coronavirus

Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer. “Prayer. Prayer. Prayer,” she offers. “One step at a time. No junk food.” But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 23, 2021, 9:08 am
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Keeping the Australian Open Safe from Coronavirus

MELBOURNE, Australia — A funny thing happened at the end of plenty of matches at the Australian Open this year: Players gathered their used water bottles and their sweat-soaked towels and put them in garbage and laundry bags rather than leaving them for someone else to clean up and, in the process, come into contact […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 21, 2021, 12:45 pm
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Positive Coronavirus Test? Canadians Worry Their Neighbors Will Find Out.

Few victims of public shaming have become as famous as Mr. Cronk, the New Brunswicker who contracted coronavirus on a business trip. He initially had no symptoms, so was not required to self-isolate upon returning, he said. Nine days later, he exhibited a few symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus, so the health department began […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 21, 2021, 11:45 am
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Coronavirus, Texas, Mars: Your Weekend Briefing

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. 500,000 deaths. Roughly one year since the first known coronavirus-related death was reported in the U.S., an unfathomable toll is nearing — the loss of half a million people. As of Sunday, the pandemic […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 21, 2021, 6:03 am
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Covid-19 US deaths: What it’s like to die from the coronavirus

We’re approaching half a million deaths from the coronavirus in the US. But most of these deaths — and the grueling medical ordeals leading up to them — have remained largely hidden from view. The majority of terminally ill Covid-19 patients typically spend their last days or weeks isolated in ICUs to keep the virus […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 20, 2021, 9:30 am