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Texas Governor Greg Abbott rolled back his state’s reopening process on Friday as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to soar in Texas. “As I said from the start, if the positivity rate rose above 10%, the State of Texas would take further action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Abbott said in a statement. “At this …

New York state Democratic lawmakers will open an inquiry into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes, the Niagra Gazette reported on Friday. Around 6,300 residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities in New York have died during the pandemic, accounting for roughly one quarter of the state’s total coronavirus deaths.  …

The US economy may not shake its bad case of the coronavirus for another two and a half years, a new economic forecast warns. The nation is in for a gradual economic recovery from the “depression-like crisis” sparked by the pandemic, with production and employment likely to remain under pressure through the end of 2022, …

Labor unions for aviation workers want Congress to pass another $32 billion bailout to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs as the coronavirus pandemic keeps airlines in a chokehold. Six unions warned lawmakers that “mass layoffs are inevitable” without another round of payroll aid to keep airline workers employed through at least the end of …

It was the second week of January, and Robert F. Smith could see the economic damage in China wash across his computer screen in Denver. Weekly reports of tracking data from his more than 60 software companies showed that many Chinese businesses, particularly smaller ones, were slowly grinding to a halt as the coronavirus outbreak …

The Government Accountability Office revealed in a new report that almost 1.1 million dead people received coronavirus relief checks from the government that totaled nearly $1.4 billion. The GAO explains that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department “moved quickly” to send out over 160 million payments to Americans as authorized by the …

A heartless hospice chain prodded its sales reps to sneak into hospitals and nursing homes in search of terminally ill patients at the height of the coronavirus pandemic — even if it meant falsely posing as staff, a new lawsuit claims. Courtesy of Kay Van Wey Vitas Healthcare of Miami improperly declared its sales staffers …

The Bonnaroo 2020 festival has been officially canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the festival announced on Thursday. In March, the long-running festival, which is held in Manchester, Tenn., moved from its regular June dates to September in the hopes that the pandemic would have eased enough to allow for mass gatherings, but it has long …

Harley-Davidson will cut 140 jobs in the US following its decision to adjust production volumes, a company representative told Reuters. The layoffs will affect 90 production workers at Harley’s York facility in Pennsylvania and 50 at its Tomahawk facility in Wisconsin. More On: harley-davidson Harley-Davidson cuts 500 jobs in latest round of layoffs Harley-Davidson to …

The US economy shrank at a 5 percent rate in the first quarter and a vastly worse performance is expected in the current three-month period, when the coronavirus pandemic began to spread across the US. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the decline in the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, …