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FILE PHOTO: A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) staff uses a Lysol to clean a station at the lobby of Grand Central Station following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York City, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon (Reuters) - UK-based Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc (RB.L) said on Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved use of its Lysol Disinfectant Spray against COVID-19. The U.S. EPA said in a statement that the agency had approved two products, Lysol Disinfectant Spray and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist, based on laboratory testing that showed the products were effective against COVID-19. Reckitt Benckiser reported record sales growth in the first quarter and predicted a stronger-than-expected performance in ...

DEIRDRE: GOOD MORNING. I AM DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. TY: I AM TY STEELE. TEO TORRES IS WORKING FROM HOME. THE SACRAMENTO KINGS HAVE CLOSED THE TRAINING FACILITY AT THE GOLDEN 1 CENTER AFTER ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE TEAM TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19. DID CALIFORNIANS HEED THE WARNINGS TO AVOID CROWDS AN WHERE I FACE MASK OVER THE WEEKEND? WE WILL FIND OUT WHEN THE GOVERNOR HOLDS AN UPDATE. EDUCATION OFFICIALS ARE RAISING ALARMS ABOUT A DRAMATIC DROP IN THE NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS WHO HAVE APPLIED FOR COLLEGE AID. DEIRDR THE U.S. IS NEARING 2.9 MILLION CASES IN NEARLY A HUN -- 130,000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED. IN CALIFORNIA, THERE COVID-19 map of California: Latest coronavirus cases by county ...

Former Stanford University Medical Center Chief of Neuroradiology Dr. Scott Atlas said Monday that there is too strong a focus on one aspect of coronavirus statistics at the present time, and not enough on another. Atlas, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said on "The Story" that there's been a heavy focus on an uptick in cases, especially in places where governors either have reinstated or have further enforced restrictions. "When we see this focus on more cases, it doesn't really matter how many cases -- it only matters who gets the cases. We know that the infection-fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.04 percent -- that's less than or equal to the seasonal flu," he said. "The cases themselves should not be and were never the focus. It's only the tragic consequence...

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Health experts won’t ask Americans to take off their masks any time soon. That’s the take of Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. He has been preparing for an outbreak like the novel coronavirus as part of his work for years. Johns Hopkins practices virus simulations as part of is preparedness protocol, with the goal of offering public health experts and policymakers a blueprint of what to do in a pandemic. One of those simulations took place in October 2019, when Toner and a team of researchers launched a coronavirus pandemic simulation in New York, running through various scenarios on how residents, governments and private businesses would hypothetically react to the threat. TEXAS' CORONAVIRUS HOSPITALIZATIONS HIT NEW DAILY HIGH AS TOTAL CASE...

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