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The UK now has the highest death rate from Covid-19 of any country in the world, the latest data has revealed. An average of 935 daily deaths in the UK over the last week was the equivalent of more than 16 people in every million dying each day from coronavirus. Figures compiled by University of Oxford-based research platform Our World in Data show that no other country matches the UK’s per capita rate of deaths. The UK overtook the Czech...

Half a century later, Houston  is a problem as some of its largest hospitals reach 100% ICU occupancy. Ditto for many other cities around the US. This is a problem and it’s getting worse. Meanwhile, the same pandemic that is filling hospitals is also killing jobs. The latest employment report showed the US lost 140,000 jobs in December. We are still down almost 10 million jobs since last winter. The economy won’t improve until we get the virus under control, which depends heavily on how fast we vaccinate people. The pace is picking up but it’s still not enough—especially as scienti...

January 10, 2021 A rsenal Elementary School’s gym was set up with three tables and several medical workers standing behind them that February morning. About 20 newspaper reporters, two news photographers and a TV video cameraman hovered in the background. Dr. Jonas Salk prepares to draw blood from Arthur Donahoo of Washington, Pa., as part of the polio vaccine testing in the early 1950s. (Post-Gazette Archives) Second- and third- graders filed up to the tables, first-graders trailing behind. At one table, a wide-eyed boy offered his arm. A doctor and a nurse, both women, spoke soothingly ...

Jan 7, 2021 7:00 AM EST Looking at cause of death in daily numbers might help put Covid and other diseases into perspective. Worldwide, life expectancy at birth reached 73 years in 2019, a 9-year increase compared with 1990, according to the United Nations. About 56 million people in the world died in 2017. In that year, the overwhelming cause was cardiovascular disease, which killed about 17.8 million humans. So far, confirmed deaths from Covid-19 worldwide by Jan. 4 are nearly 1.85 million. But in the U.S. in 2020, Covid-19 became a leading cause of death when the daily death rate became ...

Provided by Dow Jones By Greg Ip Whether investors one day regret paying so much for Tesla Inc. stock, they have done the planet a favor. Their enthusiasm enabled the company to raise enough money to stay afloat until it could profitably mass produce electric cars while accelerating other manufacturers' rollouts. Tesla, trading at more than 1,000 times trailing earnings, is only the most extreme example of a euphoria that has swept green energy. From the end of 2019, a fund that tracks Nasdaq's clean energy index has risen 191% compared with the broad market's 1...