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275 South Africans repatriated from US, hundreds more to arrive this weekAmong them was multiple South African surfing champion Jordy Smith and his wife. The champ had been training for the forthcoming global surf tour, in Hawaii, when the global Covid-19 pandemic struck. He told News24 about how the journey had begun chaotically in Washington."There…

COVID can come for anyone, but older adults, men, and black people have elevated risk of death. Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate. Photos by Unsplash. By this point in the pandemic, we have internalized that the coronavirus could affect any of us. But COVID-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer, either. No one is immune, but…

Dr. Phil McGraw recently said some things about the COVID-19 coronavirus and social distancing. ... [+] (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) Getty Images Looks like the Twittersphere got their Dr. Phil of Dr. Phil’s appearance on a Thursday night episode of the television show The Ingraham Angle. On the show, Phil McGraw, PhD (no, his…

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