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Seoul’s angels: South Korea food delivery giants rev up rider race amid coronavirus boom

October 14, 2020

SEOUL (Reuters) – In South Korea, some of the world’s biggest food delivery firms are scrambling to surf an estimated $4 billion wave of new orders, contracting thousands of new riders in a boom triggered by the scourge of the global economy – the coronavirus pandemic.

Chey Young-ah, a dispatch rider, checks her mobile phone as she chooses a delivery job in Seongnam, South Korea, October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Koreans had already developed such an appetite for meal deliveries that the country ranked third in the world last year for food order services, according to consultancy Euromonitor. Now, tough social distancing rules and work-from-home policies to counter the pandemic have fuelled explosive growth.

South Korea’s food delivery market is expected to jump 40% this year to around $15.4 billion from $11 billion in 2019, Euromonitor data showed, topped only by China and the United States.

Surging coronavirus-era consumer demand

Seoul’s angels: S.Korea food delivery giants rev up rider race amid coronavirus boom

October 14, 2020

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* Home delivery orders rocket, stokes shortage of dispatch bikers

* S.Korea’s 2020 food orders market seen at $15.4B vs $11B in 2019 -Euromonitor

* Leading operators adding thousands of bikers to contractor pool

* Rider pay up to 15,000 won ($13) per order vs hourly minimum wage of 8,590 won

* Contractor work like rider jobs to keep growing, raises labour rights issue -expert

SEOUL, Oct 14 (Reuters) – In South Korea, some of the world’s biggest food delivery firms are scrambling to surf an estimated $4 billion wave of new orders, contracting thousands of new riders in a boom triggered by the scourge of the global economy – the coronavirus pandemic.

Koreans had already developed such an appetite for meal deliveries that the country ranked third in the world last year for food order services, according to consultancy Euromonitor. Now, tough social distancing rules and work-from-home policies to

The Race for a Super-Antibody Against the Coronavirus

October 12, 2020

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Even as vaccines are hailed as our best hope against the coronavirus, dozens of scientific groups are working on an alternate defense: monoclonal antibodies. These therapies shot to prominence just this month after President Trump got an infusion of an antibody cocktail made by Regeneron and credited it for his apparent recovery, even calling it a “cure.”

Monoclonal antibodies are distilled from the blood of patients who have recovered from the virus. Ideally, antibodies infused early in the course of infection — or even before exposure, as a preventive — may provide swift immunity.

An enthusiastic Mr. Trump has promised to distribute these experimental drugs free to anyone who needs them. But they are difficult and expensive to produce. At the moment, Regeneron has enough to treat only 50,000 patients; the supply is unlikely to exceed a few million doses in the foreseeable future.

Dozens of companies and academic groups

Fallbrook health professional takes on Marie Waldron in 75th Assembly District race

October 10, 2020

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Health care worker Kate Schwartz is facing Republican incumbent Marie Waldron in the 75th Assembly District contest, and the two candidates disagree on several key issues confronting constituents.

Schwartz, a Fallbrook Democrat, is a director on the Fallbrook Regional Health District board and has been a licensed behavioral health care provider for more than three decades.

She said she’s eager to bring her experience in the health care industry to Sacramento and to help residents of the 75th Assembly District battle through the coronavirus pandemic, which has sickened nearly 50,000 people and killed more than 800 countywide.

“I’ve spent my entire career working to assist people experiencing mental health illnesses and crises,” Schwartz said in a phone interview. “And of course, working on the community level, I see the inherent, systemic problems with our health care system and want to help to fix it.”

Waldron, of Escondido, is a four-term

Coronavirus Debate Safety: A New Issue Grips the 2020 Race

October 7, 2020

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The last time President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. debated each other, the nation was left grappling with Mr. Trump’s attack on election integrity, his refusal to categorically condemn white supremacists and bitter exchanges of a type rarely seen in American presidential politics.

That was last week.

Now, in a stark reminder of the tumultuous nature of the 2020 race, all of those issues — which are of significant importance to American voters — have been eclipsed in the political dialogue by a fight over health precautions and transparency that is set to define the next presidential debate, scheduled for Oct. 15.

Mr. Trump, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, has insisted that he is “looking forward” to the debate in Miami, despite great uncertainties about what his condition will be then. Mr. Biden and his team, for their part, are seeking to place the onus for a

The Musical Race To Dominate Digital Wellness

October 7, 2020

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Doctor using music apps Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music to cure sickness. — CANVA

iTunes once dominated the digital music distribution space. Its advent disrupted traditional music distributors and created a brand-new digital entertainment economy, proving to be one of Apple’s most successful differentiation and engagement strategies. First, they dominated the Mp3 player market with iPods. Next, they leveraged those music features in their smartphones, propelling them to the top of the mobile-device market.

Several years later, Spotify turned the music market on its head again, firmly establishing and soon dominating the music streaming business, eventually undermining iTunes’ download model and forcing Apple and other competitors to join them in the music streaming and subscription race.

Global Recorded Music Industry Revenue 2001-2019 — MUSICBUSINESSWORLDWIDE

Today, the three largest players in the digital music landscape are Apple Music, Spotify and newcomer Amazon Music. As of March 2020: Spotify had 130 million subscribers, Apple Music had an estimated 70 million and Amazon Music had over 55 million. Although Google’s YouTube Music boasts

Q&A: Where Are We in the COVID-19 Vaccine Race? | Top News

October 7, 2020

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway.

As some companies close in on unveiling their initial findings – with Canadian and European regulators already reviewing early data on some vaccines – the following is what we know about the race to deliver vaccines to help end the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over a million lives:

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc with German partner BioNTech SE <22UAy.F>, U.S. biotech Moderna Inc

and Britain-based AstraZeneca Plc

in conjunction with University of Oxford researchers could provide early analyses of data from their various large trials over the next two months. Johnson & Johnson

is not far behind.

What happens in these trials?

The companies are testing their vaccines against a placebo – typically saline solution – in

Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?

October 7, 2020

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By Carl O’Donnell

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway.

As some companies close in on unveiling their initial findings – with Canadian and European regulators already reviewing early data on some vaccines – the following is what we know about the race to deliver vaccines to help end the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over a million lives:

Who is furthest along?

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc <PFE.N> with German partner BioNTech SE <22UAy.F>, U.S. biotech Moderna Inc <MRNA.O> and Britain-based AstraZeneca Plc <AZN.L> in conjunction with University of Oxford researchers could provide early analyses of data from their various large trials over the next two months. Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N> is not far behind.

What happens in these trials?

The companies are testing

Author to discuss the connection between race and health

October 4, 2020

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Ijeoma Oluo wants you to know the pandemic is a stark reminder that race is closely related to physical and mental well-being.

Oluo, bestselling author of “So You Want to Talk About Race,” will deliver that message and more in her keynote speech at a Snohomish County health summit Oct. 8.

Oluo is a writer, speaker and self-proclaimed “internet yeller” on racial, sexual, economic and gender issues. She is the author of “So You Want to Talk About Race,” an examination of race in America, “Mediocre,” a history of white male American identity and “The Badass Feminist Coloring Book,” featuring 45 sketches of her favorite feminists.

As one of one of Seattle’s strongest voices for social justice, Oluo has attracted a Twitter following of more than 281,200. She helped launch The Establishment, a woman-run news and opinion website where she was an editor-at-large from 2015 to 2019. Oluo also was

Virginia Senate debate sees Warner, Gade clash on Trump, race, health care

October 4, 2020

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Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and his Republican challenger shared the debate stage Saturday night in their second meeting ahead of Election Day in Norfolk, Va.

Warner and Republican challenger Daniel Gade, a wounded Army veteran turned college professor, sparred over the economy, health care, coronavirus relief, and other issues at Norfolk State University, a historically Black university (HBCU). It was the first U.S. Senate debate hosted at the 85-year-old institution.

Many of the questions asked of the two White candidates involved racial disparities.

Early on, they were asked about President Trump’s comments on a deadly, racially charged Charlottesville incident in 2017 and his handling of a similar question during Tuesday’s presidential debate in Cleveland.

“The president badly fumbled that question … and he badly fumbled it in the Charlottesville case as well,” Gade said. “I disavow racism, I disavow white supremacy, and it has no place in our