Month: May 2021

Bitcoin Rebounds After a Big Tumble: Live Updates – The New York Times
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Bitcoin Rebounds After a Big Tumble: Live Updates – The New York Times

Here’s what you need to know: One of the tuner cars in “F9” has an actual rocket engine attached to its roof.Credit...Universal Pictures LOS ANGELES — In February 2020, Universal Pictures used the Super Bowl to light a marketing match under “F9,” the latest installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise. With any luck, the studio hoped, the movie would roar into theaters a few months later and take in more than $1 billion worldwide, just as a predecessor, “The Fate of the Furious,” did in 2017. But the pandemic had other plans. Some rival studios hemmed and hawed over their release schedule, but Universal shocked Hollywood in early March 2020 by delaying “F9” for an entire year. “It was a very unpopular decision,” Donna Langley, chairwoman of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Gro...
Pandemic has fueled eating disorder surge in teens, adults – Fox News
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Pandemic has fueled eating disorder surge in teens, adults – Fox News

Many hospital beds are full. Waiting lists for outpatient treatment are bulging. And teens and adults seeking help for eating disorders are often finding it takes months to get an appointment. The pandemic created treacherous conditions for eating disorders, leading to a surge of new cases and relapses that is not abating as restrictions are loosened and COVID-19 cases subside in many places, doctors and other specialists say. "We are absolutely seeing massive increases," said Jennifer Wildes, an associate psychiatry professor and director of an outpatient eating disorders program at the University of Chicago Medicine. Some patients are waiting four to five months to get treatment such as psychotherapy and sometimes medication. Waits usually lasted only a few weeks pre-pandemic, Wildes...
2.7 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Iowa – KCCI Des Moines
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2.7 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Iowa – KCCI Des Moines

NEW THIS MORNING, AN AREA TEEN CELEBRATED HER BIRTHDAY, BY GETTING THE VACCINE. KCCI’S TOMMIE CRKLA IS LIVE WITH THE STORY BEHIND HER PANDEMIC PRESENT. TOMMIE? TOMMIE: WE JUST FINISHED OUR FIRST FULL WEEK WHERE KIDS 1152- COULD GET VACCINAT.ED THAT INCLUDES HERE AT THE POLK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT WHERE THEY WILL HAVE A VACCINE CLINIC TOMORROW. THAT WILL INCLUDE ALL AGES INCLUDING KIDS AS LONG AS THEY BRING APPARENT. THAT ALSO GOES FOR 14-YEAR-OLD NORA TURNER. THE AVAILABILITY COINCIDED WHIT HER 14TH BIRTHDAY. THE TEENAGER GOT HEROV CID-19 VACCINE TO CELEBRATE HER DAY. SHE WAS VACCINATED AT UNITYPOINT IN URBANDALE. TURNER SAYS SHE GOT IT, BECAUSE EVEN AT HER YOUNG AGE, SHE KNOWS IT’LL HELP SO SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO SEE ANOTHER FAMILY MEER COME DOWN WITH COVID-19. HER MOM, JANELLE...
Gene Therapy, High-Tech Goggles Restore Some Vision to Blind People – The Wall Street Journal
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Gene Therapy, High-Tech Goggles Restore Some Vision to Blind People – The Wall Street Journal

Scientists are making dramatic strides toward a goal that once seemed almost unimaginable: Restoring limited vision to people affected by a previously irreversible form of blindness caused by an inherited eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers working with the Paris-based company GenSight Biologics SA reported that a 58-year-old man who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa 40 years ago was able to locate objects placed on a table after receiving an experimental therapy. And New York City-based company Bionic Sight LLC announced in March that four blind people in an early-stage clinical trial are now able to detect light and motion after undergoing a similar treatment. Those results haven’t y...
Pink and daughter Willow stun at Billboard Music Awards – CNN
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Pink and daughter Willow stun at Billboard Music Awards – CNN

The two did a stunning acrobatic performance to Pink's "Cover Me in Sunshine," a single she recorded with Willow. After the performance, Pink said her 9-year-old "nailed it." Pink sang a medley of her songs that included "Get the Party Started," "So What," "Blow Me One Last Kiss," "Who Knew," "Just Give Me a Reason." After being introduced by Jon Bon Jovi, who labeled her a "trailblazer," Pink admitted to having a crush on the rocker when she was a kid, but upon finding out he was married, replaced him with Sebastian Bach. Pink is the 10th musician to receive the Icon Award, which "recognizes outstanding artists who have achieved excellence on the Billboard charts and have made an indelible mark on music itself." She joins Mariah Carey (2019), Janet Jackson (2018), Cher (2017), Cel...
Best Bob Dylan Songs According To 80 Musicians – Stereogum
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Best Bob Dylan Songs According To 80 Musicians – Stereogum

David Byrne: "Murder Most Foul," 2020 My first exposure to a Bob Dylan song was probably the Byrds version of “Mr. Tambourine Man.” I heard it on a crappy transistor radio in my bedroom in Arbutus, a Baltimore suburb. It blew my little mind. The words were, to me at that time, impenetrable. They spoke of another world — a place both weird and magical, a bohemian land with links to the Beat poets, with whom I was familiar, a little. Late nights huddled in cafes blathering about what must have been incredibly interesting ideas. Here was a missive from that world. Not sure I was aware that Dylan wrote the song. The music too was revolutionary to me — the chiming 12-string guita...
3 Wuhan researchers ill before first cases revealed in 2019, report says; some vaccinated teens might have heart issues: Live COVID updates – USA TODAY
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3 Wuhan researchers ill before first cases revealed in 2019, report says; some vaccinated teens might have heart issues: Live COVID updates – USA TODAY

China on Monday denied a report that three Wuhan Institute of Virology employees were hospitalized with possible coronavirus symptoms in November 2019, a claim that if true would further fuel debate over the origins of the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal cited a U.S. intelligence report, saying the previously undisclosed information provides fresh details on the timing of the hospital visits about a month before China reported the first infections. China and the World Health Organization have downplayed calls for a broader investigation into whether the virus could have escaped from the laboratory.  China's foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, on Monday called the claim "completely untrue." "The US continues to hype the lab leak theory. Is the real intention to express concern over ...
Allergies or COVID? How to tell the difference – WCVB Boston
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Allergies or COVID? How to tell the difference – WCVB Boston

It's spring and that means sniffling, sneezing and coughing for many allergy sufferers. The tricky part this year is distinguishing allergies from COVID-19. How can you tell them apart? There are a couple telltale signs.Cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, fatigue and loss of taste and smell. They're a familiar sign for allergy sufferers that spring is here. But they are also all coronavirus symptoms.Dr. Sandra Hong with the Cleveland Clinic says there are other symptoms, however, that mean it's not allergies."With coronavirus symptoms, very frequently they'll come on with fevers. If you have a fever, it's not going to be allergies. If you have diarrhea, that's also not allergies. That's something completely different,” she said.Hong says another good way to decipher between the ...
Emma Stones baby daughters name is revealed as Louise Jean McCary – Daily Mail
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Emma Stones baby daughters name is revealed as Louise Jean McCary – Daily Mail

Emma Stone's baby daughter's name is 'revealed as Louise Jean McCary with the moniker a sweet tribute to the star's grandmother' By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 07:22 EDT, 24 May 2021 | Updated: 07:42 EDT, 24 May 2021 Emma Stone's baby daughter's name has reportedly been revealed as Louise Jean McCary. According to TMZ, who have obtained a 'copy of the birth certificate', the star, 32, chose the name as a sweet tribute to her grandmother, who is called Jean Louise.   Emma welcomed her first child with husband Dave McCary in March after the couple tied the knot in 2020.   Reports: Emma Stone's baby daughter's name has reportedly been revealed as Louise Jean McCary (pictured last week at the Cruella premiere in LA)  The public...