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Coronavirus Fears Lead To Canceled Flights And Concerns Within The Travel Industry

Companies are canceling employee travel and airlines are slashing hundreds of flights amid fear of the spreading coronavirus. The slump is hitting the travel industry and related businesses hard.
- David Schaper
COVID-19: 'We Can Push This Virus Back,' WHO Leader Says Of Coronavirus

As the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness spreads around the world, governments have a chance to "break the chains of transmission," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.
- Bill Chappell
Seattle Now: Can I be tested for coronavirus?

If you have symptoms of coronavirus, you probably want to get tested. But it's not quite that simple. We’re hearing from people who are having symptoms, who want to get tested, but who were turned away when they tried. Why the holdup?
- Patricia Murphy
How Computer Modeling Of COVID-19's Spread Could Help Fight The Virus

As the world watches the outbreak of a novel coronovirus, epidemiologists are watching simulations of that outbreak in their computers, to try to predict what might happen next.
- Nell Greenfieldboyce
Delays In Coronavirus Testing Creates Confusion, Questions

The coronavirus response has been marred by a delayed rollout of an effective test for those who may have been exposed. It's created uncertainty and left some who were exposed to the disease untested.
- Greg Allen
In A 1st, Scientists Use Revolutionary Gene-Editing Tool To Edit Inside A Patient

Doctors used CRISPR to edit genes of cells inside a patient's eye, hoping to restore vision to a person blinded by a rare genetic disorder. A similar strategy might work for some brain diseases.
- Rob Stein
Retirement homes shore up defenses against coronavirus

The spotlight on COVID-19 deaths associated with Life Care Center in Kirkland has Seattle-area nursing homes, retirement homes and assisted living facilities trying to keep the virus out. Older people are at higher risk because they have more chronic conditions that complicate their body’s effort to fight the virus. We visited one place on the border of Seattle and Renton to learn what they’re doing.
- Joshua McNichols
Coronavirus testing restrictions frustrate Seattle area residents, criteria expected to broaden

As the death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to rise, many people who feel sick are naturally concerned they might have the infection. Until now, a coronavirus test has been difficult to get locally because of limited capacity and strict rules for who qualifies. However, both of those restrictions may relax soon.
- Tom Banse
Hospital at the center of U.S. coronavirus deaths hasn't been upfront about staff risk, nurses claim

Employees of EvergreenHealth who cared for the deceased patients worry they were exposed to the coronavirus, without proper notification from the hospital.
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
The 'Wuhan Shake' and other coronavirus memes blowing up the internet

The coronavirus is taking over internet
- Juan Pablo Chiquiza

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