Stunning graphs have revealed when the novel coronavirus is projected to peak in every US state. Researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics created a model showing when deaths and hospital resource use is estimated to reach their heights from coast to coast. The model shows that New York is projected see … Read more
Will I inherit any of my terminally ill husband’s state pension when he dies? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:36 BST, 30 March 2020 | Updated: 07:36 BST, 30 March 2020 I receive £150 state pension in my own right. My husband is terminally ill now. Will I receive … Read more
German state finance minister ‘kills himself’ as officials claim he was in despair over the coronavirus crisis Thomas Schaefer, 54, found dead on railway tracks at Hochhein, near Frankfurt Authorities claimed the state finance minister appeared to have killed himself State governor Volker Bouffier suggested he was ‘in despair’ over coronavirus For confidential support in … Read more
Those born in the 1980s are financially worse off than the generation before: are they really facing a state pension age of 75? The This is Money podcast By This Is Money Published: 14:38 GMT, 30 August 2019 | Updated: 14:38 GMT, 30 August 2019 This week, This is Money takes a look at a … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that the state’s coronavirus death toll was now 603 an increase of 134 in just one day, as he gave a rallying call to action to National Guard to ‘kick coronavirus a*s’ from a new, 1,000-bed field hospital at the Javits Center. There are now more than … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that the state’s coronavirus death toll was now 519, an increase of 134 in just one day, as he gave a rallying call to action to National Guard to ‘kick coronavirus a*s’ before the pandemic peak arrives. There are now more than 44,000 cases of infection in … Read more
A mother is suing the Minnesota State Fair after her son allegedly contracted an E. coli infection and developed permanent kidney damage from touching livestock. According to a lawsuit filed last week, Christina Vonderhaar said that, on August 29, she brought her son, then four, to the State Fair, where he pet several animals. Within two … Read more
Chinese media outlets have linked the origin of the coronavirus pandemic with Italy after a Milan-based professor said doctors there saw ‘very strange’ pneumonia cases as early as November. Beijing is now rejecting the widely held assessment that the city of Wuhan is the birthplace of the global outbreak after the number of daily infections … Read more
At long last, Boris Johnson has finally made the nation sit up and pay attention by ordering the closure of pubs, restaurants and cafes. It is Johnson’s genius for acting as the voice of the nation that enabled him to mobilise millions of Britons of all ages and accents, achieve the seemingly impossible and ‘get … Read more
British tourists have been filmed chanting ‘we’ve all got the flu, na na na na!’ and taunting police in Spain as they defy the country’s lockdown during the coronavirus outbreak. Footage shows at least 50 Britons, some topless and others appearing to sip from cans of beer, yelling outside a block of flats in Benidorm … Read more