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Coronavirus: What s happening in Canada and around the world on Dec. 20
Ontario and Quebec, the two provinces hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, both reported daily case counts of the respiratory illness surpassing 2,000 on Sunday while Nunavut reported its first two COVID-19-related deaths.
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A health-care worker pauses during a lull in visitors at a COVID-19 testing centre in Toronto on Sunday.(Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
Reid Wiseman
HOUSTON (NASA PR) NASA’s Director of Flight Operations Steve Koerner has appointed veteran astronaut Reid Wiseman as chief of the Astronaut Office. Wiseman takes the place of astronaut Pat Forrester, who has held the position since June 2017.
“Pat has provided a bedrock of steadfast, forthright leadership in the astronaut office during a crucial time for NASA as we launched the first commercial crew flights and laid the groundwork for Artemis missions,” Koerner said. “His dedication to the astronaut corps has been evident at every turn and we appreciate all the hard work he has put in over the past three years.”
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Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, the humble biochemist who helped revolutionize scientists’ ability to design drugs, grow vaccines, screen for disease and enrich crops, has retired as a senior researcher at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla.
The 89-year-old Smith told the Union-Tribune that he is in declining health and is moving back to Maryland. It was there that his career took off in the 1960s when he discovered “molecular scissors” that can be used to study and alter DNA, the code of life.
Smith has struggled to recover from lymphoma, which was discovered in his chest in 2016 when he underwent a physical exam that involved advanced genetics and imaging. The exam was done at a company created by Craig Venter, who learned that he had prostate cancer when he took the same type of physical.
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