Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Monday issued an order to residents stay at home until June 10, part of expanded efforts to curtail the coronavirus pandemic that continues to spread across the country.

“I want to be clear: Do not go out unless you need to go out. This is very different than wanting to go out,” the Democratic governor said in announcing the order.

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., April 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today the launch of its third COVID-19 test, a lab-based serology blood test for the detection of the antibody, IgG, that identifies if a person has had the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Antibody testing is an important next step to tell if someone has been previously infected. It will provide more understanding of the virus, including how long antibodies stay in the body and if they provide immunity. This type of knowledge could help support the development of treatments and vaccines.

Hopefully, when Congress gets done allocating several trillion dollars simply to keep the economy afloat, we will be able to have another discussion: What should we invest in so we don’t just burden young Americans with a mountain of new debt, but also arm them with the tools to grow out of it and still prosper in the 21st century?

As far as famous quotes go, one remark, from a TED Talk by Methodist minister Donald Davis, will likely be etched in the minds of University of Virginia sports fans forever.

“If you learn to use adversity right, it will buy you a ticket to a place you couldn’t have gotten to any other way.”

It’s a quote that UVA men’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett’s wife, Laurel, shared with him in the aftermath of the team’s shocking loss to University of Maryland-Baltimore County in the opening round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament.

As we wake up to daily developments, a continued lockdown, and economic uncertainty amid the coronavirus pandemic, many young entrepreneurs and business leaders are feeling a sense of unease, and a loss of direction.

These unprecedented times are creating trials for many, but however testing they may seem, with those challenges, come opportunities. As an entrepreneur myself, I’ve experienced many situations like these, and I’ve always found myself having to dig deep and push through.

People who get "mild" cases of COVID-19 often still experience a range of uncomfortable and even painful symptoms.

Cases in general are categorized as "asymptomatic," "mild," "severe," or "critical." Studies have suggested that about 80% of infections by the novel coronavirus are mild, but that simply refers to people who don't need to be hospitalized. Mild cases can also develop into severe cases if the infections worsen.

(CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci has declared the handshake dead. All that close physical contact is just not what you want when there's a respiratory-borne pandemic going around. But look around you. The world's got plenty of alternatives with zero touching and all of the intended warmth.

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“It’s my first global pandemic. How about you?” Jonathan Rothberg wanted to know.

Rothberg is a high-energy biotech entrepreneur who has been trapped in quarantine on his super-yacht, the Gene Machine, since mid-March, when we first reached him by phone. The creator of a fast DNA sequencing machine and, more recently, a revolutionary cheap ultrasound wand, Rothberg had been cruising in the Caribbean when the pandemic hit.

Persistence is key to succeeding, entrepreneurs often say. Whether you just need a little boost, or feel the weight of the world on your shoulders, persistence quotes can provide the spark to get your mojo back. Everyone experiences setbacks, delays and obstacles. But many famous entrepreneurs point to one thing that made a difference in their careers. They kept going. They fell down, got up, dusted themselves off, and tried again.

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Over half a million people have recovered from COVID-19 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.

As of Thursday morning, the university reported 528,000 recoveries from the novel coronavirus.

Most of the recoveries have occurred in China, where the pandemic began. In the United States, about 48,000 people have reportedly recovered from COVID-19.

There is a crowdsourced list of European VCs floating around the web in which 99% of funds claim to be “open for business”. To all founders reading this resource I’d like to recommend they take these as statements of intent at best and false advertising at worst. The reality is that COVID-19 fundamentally changes the way VCs have done business for the last decade. Venture will not go back to “normal” within the next year and founders need to understand this to plan their fundraising accordingly.

As if being a working parent didn’t already include enough moving pieces to manage, even toddlers are now having standing teleconferences. For the two of us, our daughters’ virtual morning preschool meeting is one more item to be juggled as we attempt to work full-time from home without childcare. Our own conference calls are scheduled for naptime and occasionally interrupted by a request for potty. We attempt to wedge the rest of the workday into the early mornings and post-bedtime.

"We won," the messenger announced, and then collapsed, and so becoming the most renowned victim of connectivity, spearheading the Marathon legacy. Pheidippides' death encapsulates the quest for and risks of connectivity; we see it as tragic and unnecessary because we now take it for granted that a message and its messenger can be separated. But when the message is the messenger, as in, reporting for work, the risk is real, witnessed by over a million annual road deaths globally as well as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In this piece, we look at the concept of connectivity's many facets, the range of its manifestations, and its outcomes to understand what role planners can play in shaping its effects.

Dr. Ayse Sena Mutlu, a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor’s Huffington Center On Aging, had an intriguing question. Is it possible to change the body’s fat storage without changing eating habits? Working with the laboratory worm C. elegans, Mutlu and her colleagues conducted a broad screen to investigate whether neurons can actively send signals that, without affecting feeding habits, could alter lipid metabolism.

“When we found a connection with the sense of smell, we were very surprised. We expected a link with taste or related to eating,” said Mutlu, who works in the laboratory of Dr. Meng Wang, professor of molecular and human genetics, a member of the Huffington Center On Aging and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Baylor.

When a company goes public — when selling shares to the public through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) — it is usually five to ten years old.  This means that considerable gains have already gone to the early investors, such as angels and VCs (venture capitalists). Kind of unfair, huh? Well, to deal with this, Congress passed the Jobs Act in 2012 to democratize investments in startups. The result has been the emergence of a variety of equity crowdfunding sites.

Alexander M. Murray, Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business, recently spoke to InvestorPlace about such equity crowdinvesting sites:

Iceland has 364,000 inhabitants. Currently, roughly 10% of them are aware of whether or not they have COVID-19. This is due to a massive undertaking by Kári Stefánsson, MD, Dr. Med., the co-founder, president, and CEO of deCODE genetics—a population genetics powerhouse that has routinely produced new discoveries in fields such as genomic architecture, cancer genetics, and mental illness. Now, deCODE has combined the most intensive targeted testing and general screening of any population to date for SARS-CoV-2.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Jeff Kinney has been spending a lot of time sitting in a cemetery.

The creator of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book and film franchise is not there to mourn. Rather, he needs a place to think alone when much of his Plainville, Massachusetts, town is closed and his kids are home from school.

Some head-clearing time amid the headstones speaks to how artists must be flexible to remain sharp — and how some of us can take tips from such veteran isolators on how to stay creatively engaged at work and in our spare time during a quarantine.

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to widen even further the growing class divides now found in virtually every major country. By disrupting smaller grassroots businesses while expanding the power of technologies used in the enforcement of government edicts, the virus could further empower both the tech oligarchs and the “expert” class leading the national response to the crisis.

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When you first land on lizandmollie.com, you’re greeted with an endearing illustration of an elephant, lion, sloth and owl sitting around a conference table. One animal is bored, the other is yelling, another seems silently terrified and anxious — all meant to depict the wide range of emotions you might encounter in a team meeting. Emblazoned beneath this drawing sits an eye-catching tagline in a brushstroke font: “The future of work is emotional.” And judging by the early months of 2020 alone, that sentiment seems downright prophetic.

Summary: Droplets from a cough travel at a speed of 1.2 meters per second at peak velocity. Findings reveal that there is no logical reason to suggest 6 foot of physical distance is substantial at reducing coronavirus transmission.

Source: Western University

A recent Western-led study says two meters might not be far enough away if someone lets an uncovered cough loose in your direction – meaning sneeze and cough etiquette is more than a simple social nicety, but a key to stopping the spread of diseases like COVID-19.

Image: Western Engineering’s cough chamber is a two-metre enclosed cube with an opening and chin rest in the front, which is used as an access point for study participants to cough. Within the cube, a camera and a laser are used to determine the velocity of the expelled droplets from the cough. The image is credited to Frank Neufeld.