Month April 2020
A coronavirus vaccine currently being developed by Pfizer and German company BioNTech could be ready for emergency use by this fall, Pfizer’s CEO told The Wall Street Journal. The two companies, which have partnered in efforts to develop a vaccine, began… Continue Reading →
PARIS (AP) — Airbus says the aviation industry’s unprecedented troubles are just beginning. The European manufacturing giant reported 481 million euros ($515 million) in losses in the first quarter, put thousands of workers on furlough and sought billions in loans… Continue Reading →
We love our children more than anything in the world. As parents, we feel so helpless when our children are hurt or sick. We want to be there and be everything for them, especially at those times. That was Dr… Continue Reading →
This is not the America, I once knew. I used to be immensely proud to be an American. This country provided oxygenation to me and all its citizens, based on the fundamental principals of the first amendment. We were a… Continue Reading →
The first major test of an almost completely vote-by-mail election during a pandemic is unfolding Tuesday in Ohio, offering lessons to other states about how to conduct one of the most basic acts of democracy amid a health crisis. The… Continue Reading →
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Wednesday its experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, had met the main goal of a trial testing it in COVID-19 patients. The trial was being conducted by… Read more » The post Gilead’s Remdesivir Meets Main Goal… Continue Reading →
TOKYO (AP) — New rumors about Kim Jong Un pour in daily. The North Korean leader is dead. Or he’s very ill. Or maybe he’s just recuperating in his luxury compound, or isolating himself from the coronavirus. As speculation about… Continue Reading →
The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the… Read more » The post Economy Shrank at 4.8% Rate… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) This column is dedicated l’zaicher nishmas the author’s father, R’ Nosson Yoseph Ben Moshe, whose 12th yartzeit is today. The forced isolation of COVID-19 is a time where a husband and wife can become… Continue Reading →
A 16-year-old boy who was diagnosed with coronavirus is hospitalized in serious condition at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, the hospital said on Wednesday. The teenager is suffering from… Read more » The post 16-Year-Old Boy in Serious Condition… Continue Reading →
Over the past few years, New Jersey state lawmakers have tried to pass bills in the Legislature that would legalize the use of marijuana in the Garden State. After multiple failed attempts, lawmakers settled last year on punting the issue… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) This column is dedicated l’zaicher nishmas the author’s father, R’ Nosson Yoseph Ben Moshe, whose 12th yartzeit is today. The forced isolation of COVID-19 is a time where a husband and wife can become… Continue Reading →
A Yahoo News reporter apologized to President Donald Trump on Tuesday for misreading a chart and getting wrong the numbers he used as the basis for a question on U.S. testing for the coronavirus. Trump taunted the reporter, Hunter Walker,… Continue Reading →
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the longest expansion on record. The Commerce Department… Continue Reading →
RENTON, WA (AP) – Boeing is cutting about 10% of its work force and slowing production of planes to deal with a downturn in business that started with the grounding of its best-selling jet and has accelerated because of the… Continue Reading →
PARIS, FRANCE (VINnews) — 98-year-old Dr. Christian Chenay is living proof that age is just a number. Despite his advanced age and the raging COVID-19 virus which has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people in France, Dr. Chenay… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a clip released by Rav Asher Weiss, he urged exceptional caution despite the fact that the Israeli government has eased restrictions and opened the lockdown on workplaces and stores as well as allowing minyanim and mikvaos…. Continue Reading →
Where do we go from here? With coronavirus numbers slowly starting to decline, elected officials and medical professionals throughout the United States are all wrestling with the same issues as they try to map out a plan for a return… Continue Reading →