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Cheetos wins as pandemic shoppers reach for processed, canned food

Julie Creswell, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 08 07:39 AM

As the coronavirus shutdowns continue across the United States, two growing trends involving how people eat — the rising amount of money spent on meals outside the home and the increased purchase of fresh or organic foods in grocery stores — have been reversed.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 7, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 08 12:41 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Despite Trump’s optimism, lack of US sports could extend into the fall

Ken Belson and Marc Stein, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 07 07:05 PM

A range of sports leaders and public officials in the United States have cast doubt on normalcy returning anytime soon. Read more »

In stressful times, make stress work for you

Kari Leibowitz and Alia Crum, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 07 02:42 PM

Over a decade of research — ours and that of others — suggests that it’s not the type or amount of stress that determines its impact. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most.   Read more »

Stuck inside? Keep walking

Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 07 02:29 PM

At a time when so many of us are confined to home and worried about whether we are being active enough, the study is especially inspiring in that the added steps do not have to come from running or other vigorous exercise. It finds that for every additional 4,000 steps someone takes in a day, even if it’s just ambling around the block or across the room, his or her risk of dying early from heart disease, cancer or any other cause drops by 50 percent or more.  Read more »

'Solid kami': Filipino nurses in New York brace for ‘apex’ of COVID-19

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at Apr 07 12:18 PM

Filipino operating room nurse Patrick Singson has been at frontlines of the war against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for 18 days straight, as New York tallied 130,680 cases of the respiratory illness. Read more »

New York extends shutdown as COVID-19 cases rise

Bryan R. Smith, AFP
Updated as of Apr 07 03:03 PM

Bodies are moved to a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue at Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York on Monday. Read more »

Vigilance urged as outbreak shows signs of leveling off in New York, New Jersey

Nathan Layne and Peter Szekely, Reuters
Posted at Apr 07 11:03 AM

Governors of New York, New Jersey and Louisiana pointed to tentative signs on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak may be starting to plateau but warned against complacency as the death toll nationwide topped 10,000 and the number of known infections surpassed 360,000.   Read more »

The Spiky Blob Seen Around the World

Cara Giaimo, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 07 08:11 AM

How many times have you seen the image? It looms behind newscasters during evening updates, gets handed out on printed flyers and scrolls by in tweet after tweet. It might even show up in your dreams.But for Alissa Eckert — a medical illustrator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who helped to create what has become the iconic representation of the novel coronavirus — it started out as just another assignment. Read more »

New York City considers mass grave in park for virus victims

Alan Feuer and Liam Stack, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 07 07:11 AM

NEW YORK — New York City officials are starting to lay contingency plans if deaths from the coronavirus outbreak begin to overwhelm the capacity of morgues: temporarily burying the dead on public land.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 6, 2020

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Posted at Apr 07 12:53 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Virus in, virus out

Andrew Kelly, Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 11:15 AM

A healthcare worker empties a trashcan containing contents that includes P.P.E outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on Saturday in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. Read more »

He kissed his mother goodbye. Then he learned she had coronavirus.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 06 07:22 AM

Samuel Roy Quinn spent five hours with his mother Friday, finally allowed to say goodbye as her condition deteriorated in a nursing home south of Houston. He held her hand and hugged her. He removed his face mask several times to kiss her on the forehead. When he eventually left the nursing home, The Resort at Texas City, an employee ran after Quinn to tell him — for the first time — that his mother had tested positive for the coronavirus. Read more »

11 days after fuming about a coughing passenger, a bus driver died from the coronavirus

Michael Levenson, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 06 07:11 AM

Jason Hargrove was furious. A woman on his bus had just coughed four or five times, unguarded. He went on Facebook and vented his anger, cursing at times. On Wednesday, a week and a half after recording the video outside his bus, Hargrove, a 50-year-old, married father of six, died from complications of COVID-19. Read more »

We don't need no social distance: US police bust Pink Floyd 'corona party'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 06 06:35 AM

NEW YORK - Partygoers at a Pink Floyd tribute night have been scolded for shouting abuse at New Jersey police after defying social distancing rules brought in to contain the coronavirus pandemic.   Read more »

US braces for 'hardest, saddest' week as virus deaths surpass 9,000

Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 12:37 AM

Bodies of victims of COVID-19 were stacked in bright orange bags inside a makeshift morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, according to photos provided to Reuters. Read more »

NBA, Knicks, Nets help donate 1M masks

Field Level Media/Reuters
Posted at Apr 05 09:12 AM

The NBA, the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets are collaborating with China's consul general Huang Ping to donate one million surgical masks to the New York City area. Read more »

Baseball: Phillies' Harper, Mets' Matz donate to virus relief efforts

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 04 04:14 PM

Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper and New York Mets left-hander Steven Matz have stepped to the plate by making donations to coronavirus relief efforts. Read more »

Dr. James T. Goodrich, who operated on conjoined Filipino twins, dies at 73

Michael Gold and Daniel E. Slotnik, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 03 10:37 PM

Goodrich was thrust into public view when he conducted a series of four operations over nearly a year on Clarence and Carl Aguirre, twins from the Philippines who were joined at the tops of their heads and shared major veins in their brains. Read more »

An exhausting war over lack of live sports is starting; consumers are losing

Kevin Draper, The New York Times
Posted at Apr 03 04:47 PM

Without live games featuring action from the top American leagues, U.S. channels have been shells of their former selves. Read more »