• French pharmaceutical company Sanofi said it’s ready to assist the government with millions of doses of a drug that could help treat 300,000 coronavirus patients.
• Test with anti-malaria Plaquenil showed that the COVID-19 virus disappeared after six days in 75% of patients in a limited study.
• The government said the results were promising, but they need to be validated by more extended, independent trials before going forward.
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Staying home and washing our hands are two simple things we all can do to give hospitals the time they need to treat severe coronavirus cases and authorities the time they need to procure critical medical supplies (ventilators and COVID-19 test kits) and come up with measures that will prop up the economy when this is over.

At the same time, researchers need time to study the virus closely, to understand how it works and how it can be defeated. Doctors in Australia have published a study that shows how the immune system kills the infections, while several laboratories around the world are working on vaccines. On top of that, doctors are experimenting with all sorts of drugs that could speed up the recovery of patients. One of them is a flu medication from Japan called favipiravir (Avigan), which showed promise in China. Another even more surprising potential COVID-19 treatment is hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), which France is currently considering for future trials.

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• NASA just elevated all of its centers to Stage 3, meaning a mandatory work-from-home order for almost all of its staff.
• Staff considered to be mission-critical will still be allowed to access NASA facilities, but the majority will have to make do from home.
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NASA has made the decision to send all of its staff in centers across the country home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The decision comes in the wake of multiple NASA facilities being forced into mandatory work-from-home status after staff members tested positive for COVID-19.

It was roughly a week ago that NASA had to close its Ames Research Center to most employees after one tested positive for the virus. Then, earlier this week, a second NASA employee tested positive, this time at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. At the time NASA elevated all of its locations to “Stage 2,” which pushed staff to work from home if possible. Now, the agency has elevated its efforts and moved all centers to “Stage 3,” which is a mandatory work-from-home order.

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• The coronavirus has resulted in an unprecedented number of individuals staying at home during the day and using the web.
• In light of this, there’s well-founded concern that some internet providers aren’t up to the task of handling an upsurge in internet usage, particularly given how popular video streaming is.
• Speedtest.net, as a result, has been keeping an eye on global internet performance across a number of geographic regions.
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With the coronavirus still spreading across all corners of the globe, much of the world is in full-on lockdown mode. In the United States, for example, major metropolitan areas like New York City and Chicago have ordered restaurants and bars to shut down entirely. Meanwhile, a variety of other public establishments — from movie theaters and gyms to Apple retail stores — closed for business a few days ago.

This, coupled with the fact that many employers are letting employees work from home when possible, has resulted in a somewhat precedented scenario where the number of people staying home and going online — either to work or to stream a variety of media content — is perhaps higher than it’s ever been at any other time in history

To this point, The New York Times notes:

As millions of people across the United States shift to working and learning from home this week to limit the spread of the coronavirus, they will test internet networks with one of the biggest mass behavior changes that the nation has experienced.

That is set to strain the internet’s underlying infrastructure, with the burden likely to be particularly felt in two areas: the home networks that people have set up in their residences, and the home internet services from Comcast, Charter and Verizon that those home networks rely on.

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• Best Buy has announced some new policies meant to cut down on crowds at its stores as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
• The electronics chain is cutting the hours it’s open, and it’s also going to limit the number of customers inside at any given time to between 10 and 15.
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Last night, as I was driving to a grocery store nearby to stock up on some essentials that I’m definitely not hoarding, I couldn’t help but notice the parking lot at the Best Buy that’s in the same shopping complex as the store. It was — well, it wasn’t full, but you certainly could be forgiven for assuming it was a normal day and that there wasn’t, you know, a global pandemic going on at the moment. The lot looked about as full as it does on a normal day, which certainly surprised me, though I guess it shouldn’t have. People will stop at nothing to take advantage of deals, though that’s going to come to an end and pretty quick.

Because all of you clowns are crowding its stores instead of practicing the social distancing guidelines recommended by health experts — to keep us all from getting sick — Best Buy is preparing to implement a new policy at its stores, starting on Monday. For the time being, the store will only allow 10 to 15 customers inside at a time.

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• Tesla’s Fremont factory can no longer manufacture cars after it was deemed to be a non-essential business by Alameda County.
• Tesla’s share price dropped by more than 10% on the news. Tesla is now trading below $400 a share, effectively wiping out the bulk of the gains the stock enjoyed over the previous few weeks.
• As the coronavirus continues to spread, Tesla CEO Elon Musk this week reiterated his belief that the panic surrounding the coronavirus is worse than the virus itself.
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Over the past few months, Tesla shares embarked on a meteoric and somewhat unprecedented rise. Consider this: Tesla shares in late November were trading at $328 a share. Not even three months later, Tesla stock price hit $917 on February 19th. Now, just about one month later, the bulk of Tesla’s gains have all but vanished due to concerns surrounding the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Today, Tesla shares are trading in the $380 range, with the stock falling by more than 10% after Tesla’s factory in Fremont was deemed to be a non-essential business. While it was initially assumed that Tesla could keep vehicle production going, that is no longer the case. Incidentally, the Tesla factory shutting down comes just about one week after Tesla manufactured its one-millionth car, a milestone Elon Musk celebrated on Twitter last Tuesday.

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• The state of Utah was just struck with a 5.7 magnitude earthquake near the Salt Lake City area.
• The quake was the strongest in the state since 1992, knocking out power to nearly 50,000 people.
• Emergency management officials warned city residents that aftershocks are likely and to avoid the downtown Salt Lake City area.
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The Salt Lake City area got a rude awakening this morning when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake rocked the region. The event resulted in the loss of power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses and prompted Salk Lake International Airport to send inbound flights elsewhere as staff inspected runways to ensure they were safe to land on.

The last time Utah endured such an earthquake was way back in 1992. That year, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the state, though not in the Salt Lake area. It’s unclear if the earthquake produced any injuries, but we’ll have to wait and see if new reports come in.

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• Some of the recovered coronavirus patients from China, Italy, Japan, and South Korea tested positive after being discharged.
• Doctors don’t believe this is a sign of reinfection, as the immune system can beat the COVID-19 disease.
• There may be various reasons why testing turns positive after recovery.
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The coronavirus pandemic is still wreaking havoc in many countries where authorities have finally realized that harsher measures are needed to reduce the number of active COVID-19 cases so that local medical health systems aren’t overwhelmed. The world now has over 201,000 confirmed cases, with the highly-infectious disease taking the lives of over 8,000 patients. These are the numbers you usually hear about in reports, but there’s one other figure that deserves just as much attention, and that’s the number of recovered cases.

More than 82,000 people, most of them from China, have been declared virus-free, and they can help researchers come up with vaccines and treatments that could help with more severe cases. However, some of the patients who were discharged from the hospital later tested positive for the virus, puzzling doctors who are attempting to fight the disease. It appears, however, there may be several explanations for why a person might retest positive for the virus, so you shouldn’t panic if it happens to you.

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• SpaceX set a record this morning with the launch of a Falcon 9 booster that had already flown four times before.
• The booster failed to land on the platform for a fifth time, but the launch still set a record for the company.
• The rocket’s fairing halves were also recovered.
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SpaceX’s busy schedule of rocket launches continued this morning with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket delivering yet another bundle of the company’s Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch, which was originally scheduled for Sunday, but was called off after an automatic abort was triggered.

The launch is just a tiny part of the larger Starlink mission, which will eventually see thousands and thousands of tiny satellites sent into orbit. However, this morning’s launch was special for an entirely different reason. It was the first time a Falcon 9 rocket has been reused five times, and the record-setting mission shows just how powerful SpaceX’s reusable rocket business model can be.

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• The Trump administration is proposing a $1 trillion stimulus package to deal with the economic impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
• Among its components, the plan calls for sending out as much as $2,000 to Americans in the form of two checks — one sent out on April 6 and the other on May 18.
• Not everyone would get the full $2,000. The final amount would be based on income level and family size.
• This follows some of the worst stock market drops on record, as panic and fear continue to follow the spread of the deadly virus that shows no sign of slowing down yet.
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As much as $2,000 could be coming to most Americans as emergency cash — in the form of two $1,000 checks — if the Trump administration gets its wish as part of a newly proposed $1 trillion stimulus package to deal with the economic effects of the coronavirus.

This package, which far dwarfs what the government spent to bail out the banking industry in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, would include as its largest component half a trillion dollars in direct aid to individual Americans in the form of the emergency cash payouts. The plan is still not final yet, however, and the amounts could change as the Trump administration hammers out the details with congressional leaders.

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• Early sales figures are starting to trickle in for Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 line, and at least when it comes to the S20 itself, the numbers aren’t looking good so far.
• Samsung has reportedly “radically” cut demand for S20 parts, and the handset itself is apparently selling worse than last year’s Galaxy S10. Of course, the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis has proven to be highly detrimental to sales, since the current global pandemic means consumers aren’t exactly in the mood to splurge on pricey electronics and are instead more focused on buying food and essentials right now.
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Can we go ahead and dub Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 flagship one of the unluckiest handsets in history? Korean media has begun reporting that inventory is piling up and that sales of the newly-released handset are shaping up to be worse than last year’s Galaxy S10.

Obviously, most people aren’t exactly in the mood to buy new electronic goods right now given that there’s, you know, a global pandemic that’s still raging at the moment. And even if they were in the mood, the fact that most people are hunkered down at home and practicing social distancing isn’t exactly conducive to participating in consumerism.

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