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| While United States and Britain are bracing for one of the darkest weeks in living memory, there’s good news from Spain where emergency rooms are returning almost to normal a week after dire scenes in hospital corridors. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is in good spirits after spending the night in a London hospital, in what his office described as a “precautionary step” after he contracted the new coronavirus Coronavirus patients around the world are rushing to join studies of an experimental drug that showed promise against some similar viruses in the past. And a second U.S. company is poised to begin a small safety test of a vaccine. Stocks jumped in markets around the world Monday after some of the hardest-hit areas offered sparks of hope that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak may be on the horizon. The global economic crisis caused by coronavirus has devastated the oil industry in the U.S., which pumps more crude than any other country. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans in overwhelming numbers are actively avoiding others as much as possible and taking additional steps to protect themselves from the coronavirus. |
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