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From Insurers to Landlords, Retailers to Restaurants, COVID Reshapes Economies By Paul Wiseman and Alexandra Olson | December 18, 2020 It would be just a temporary precaution. When the viral pandemic erupted in March, employees of the small digital insurance firm Thimble fled their Manhattan offices. CEO Jay Bregman planned to call them back soon — as soon as New York was safe again. Within weeks, he’d changed his mind. Bregman broke his company’s lease...

The Michigan health department reported 4,037 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 83 deaths related to COVID-19 on Wednesday. That pushes the states total number of cases to 446,752, with 11,018 deaths related to the virus. The Ottawa County Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported 78 new lab-confirmed cases of the virus and six more deaths related to COVID-19. The deaths reported in Ottawa County on Wednesday were a man, 74, who died Dec. 11; a 54-year-old man, 81-year-old woma...

NEW YORK (AP) — It would be just a temporary precaution. When the viral pandemic erupted in March, employees of the small insurance firm Thimble fled their Manhattan offices. CEO Jay Bregman planned to call them back soon — as soon as New York was safe again. Within weeks, he’d changed his mind. Bregman broke his company’s lease and told his two dozen or so staffers they could keep working from home — possibly for good. The gains were at once unexpected and immediate. Bregman is savin...

From restaurants to retailers, how COVID transformed economies Paul Wiseman And Alexandra Olson, The Associated Press A woman walks past a restaurant closed due to COVID-19, in Vancouver, on May 6, 2020. , THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck NEW YORK -- It would be just a temporary precaution. When the viral pandemic erupted in March, employees of the small insurance firm Thimble fled their Manhattan offices. CEO Jay Bregman planned to call them ...

From restaurants to retailers, virus transformed economies by Paul Wiseman And Alexandra Olson, The Associated Press Posted Dec 16, 2020 11:03 am EDT Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 11:14 am EDT Chef Proprieter Brenda Buenviaje smiles as she is interviewed at Brendas French Soul Food in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. In pre-pandemic days, Brendas French Soul Food was always hopping, but everything came to a screeching halt on March 16, when San Francisco halted indoor dining to stop the s...

Chef Proprieter Brenda Buenviaje is interviewed next to boxes to shipped at Brendas French Soul Food in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Teo Perez, from left, works in the kitchen with Jorge Morales and Jaime Hernandez at Brendas French Soul Food in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Chef Proprieter Brenda Buenviaje stands in her restaurant while interviewed at Brendas French Soul Food in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jef...

From restaurants to retailers, virus transformed economies Dec. 16, 2020 at 9:54 am It would be just a temporary precaution. When the viral pandemic erupted in March, employees of the small insurance firm Thimble fled their Manhattan offices. CEO Jay Bregman planned to call them back soon — as soon as New York was safe again. Within weeks, he’d changed his mind. Bregman broke his company’s lease and told his two dozen or so staffers they could keep working from home — possibly for good....