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Good evening. I’m Diya Chacko, and it’s Tuesday, April 21. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus outbreak in California and beyond. Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los…

Healthcare leader predicts 200,000 people could be infected with Covid-19Despite the relatively low number of new coronavirus cases in Thailand, hospitals are already reaching capacity in dealing with patients that need ICU treatment and ventilators… this from Boon Vanasin, chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group.He claims that the three main hospitals in Bangkok specialising in Covid-19…

According to data from 29 states, there have now been more than 5,600 coronavirus-related deaths in long-term care facilities, and more than 3,400 facilities in 39 states are reporting positive cases. NBC senior national correspondent Kate Snow reports for TODAY.» Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY» Watch the latest from TODAY: http://bit.ly/LatestTODAYAbout: TODAY brings you the latest…

Published on Apr 16, 2020Virologist Dr. Joseph Fair, an NBC News contributor, tells TODAY that President Trump’s plan to soon reopen parts of the country is unwise: “The moment we relax social distancing guidelines, that’s going to turn into a new peak” in the coronavirus outbreak curve. He says that it will take “two to…

200 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out about 76% of all species on Earth—both terrestrial and marine. That event was called the end-Triassic extinction, or the Jurassic-Triassic (J-T) extinction event. At that time, the world experienced many of the same things as Earth is facing now, including a warming climate and the…