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We spoke to immunologist Dr. Arturo Casadevall about convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 to find out what it is and why it holds promise.

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04/06/2020

Some researchers and doctors have started using plasma from people recovering from COVID-19 to treat others who have developed the disease. Medical News Today spoke to Dr. Arturo Casadevall, from Johns Hopkins University, to learn more about this approach. In the search for an effective treatment for COVID-19, an old method of fighting infectious diseases has recently resurfaced: transfusions with convalescent plasma. Plasma is a component of blood. This method has a simple premise. The blood of people who have recovered from an infection contains antibodies. Antibodies are molecules that have learned to recognize and fight the pathogens, such as viruses, that have caused disease. Doctors can separate plasma, one of the blood components that contain such antibodies, and administer it to...

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The NHL announced its Return to Play Plan on Tuesday with the Stanley Cup Playoffs that will include 24 teams.

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04/06/2020

The NHL announced its Return to Play Plan on Tuesday with 24 teams in competition for the Stanley Cup.The tournament will begin with a 16-team, eight-series Qualifying Round and a Seeding Round Robin among the top four teams in each conference to determine seeds for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The NHL paused the regular season March 12 due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus and its remaining 189 games will not be completed. The 12 qualifying teams from the Eastern and Western conferences were determined by points percentage as of that date. Seven teams did not qualify. "I want to make clear that the health and safety of our players, coaches, essential support staff and our communities are paramount," Commissioner Gary Bettman said in announcing the Return to Play Plan. "While nothing ...

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Gab users have been instructed to tweet at and write to the president urging him to join the network, which is filled with conspiracy theories, racism, and antisemitism.

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04/06/2020

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. As President Donald Trump fumes at Twitters decision to fact-check two of his tweets this week, a ready-made replacement social network is trying to convince him to join. Gab, a far-right social network that is filled with conspiracy theories, racism and antisemitism, is rolling out the red carpet for the president, with a verified account that has already amassed over 27,000 followers. The account, which has the same handle and profile picture as Trumps Twitter account, has a blue tick to show its a verified account. The holding page also claims Trump has been a member since 2016, even though he has yet to actually join and Gab itself only launched in 2017. In an email sent to its members on Wednesday night, Gab said...

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GOP activists in the rural Virginia district are furious that Rep. Denver Riggleman would marry two men. Now they want to take him out.

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04/06/2020

When Anthony Rek LeCounte and Alex Siciliano tied the knot last summer, they didnt expect their wedding to become a flashpoint in a congressional campaign. Shortly after moving down to Charlottesville for graduate school at the University of Virginia, the pair of gay Republican activists had become volunteers for Denver Riggleman, a libertarian-leaning distillery owner and former Air Force intelligence officer running for an open House seat. Theyd struck up a friendship, and after he won a hard-fought race, asked him to officiate their wedding at a nearby vineyard that summer. "It was so exciting and such an honor for Alex and Rek to ask me to conduct a same-sex wedding," Riggleman told VICE News, calling the pair friends who "obviously love each other." But some of the GOP activists ...

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04/06/2020

Qui songe à changer de télévision, envisage évidemment dacheter lun des meilleurs téléviseurs OLED du marché. La technologie OLED est de plus en plus le premier choix arrêté lorsquon recherche un écran haut de gamme. Et pour cause : cette innovation offre des niveaux de contraste et de fidélité des couleurs jamais atteints par la plupart des téléviseurs LCD. Limités en termes de luminosité, ces derniers ont constitué une base importante pour les constructeurs qui ont, depuis, considérablement atténuer ce défaut. Les écrans OLED sont ainsi plus adaptés à la gestion des contenus HDR, grâce à un niveau de luminosité élevé. Le dernier aspect décisif dans lachat dun téléviseur OLED ? Des prix qui commencent à être accessibles - comptez 2000 euros en moyenne, hors période promotionnelle. Il con...

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A timeline of events leading up to nationwide outcry against the Minneapolis man’s death.

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04/06/2020

A trailer smoldered behind a Target store near the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct on Friday morning, days after the death of George Floyd in police custody spurred violent protests in the city. Only hours before, the precinct building itself was set on fire. Small groups of protesters had begun to gather Friday in the area, shouting slogans including “I can’t breathe,” which Floyd told the Minneapolis police officer who had a knee on his neck in a bystander's video of the incident. It's unclear whether the graphic video has alone sparked the outrage across the Twin Cities and the country, or if it's a culmination of anger from a string of high-profile incidents in which three black people were killed. A timeline of what has transpired in recent weeks and days: Residents flock to th...

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40 programmes à découvrir ou à rattraper sur Netflix dès maintenant.

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04/06/2020

La plateforme Netflix met à votre disposition un choix incroyable de séries TV inédites ou devenues cultes. Vous ne savez par laquelle commencer ? Découvrez notre guide des meilleures séries Netflix disponibles pour le public français. Lancé en septembre 2014 en France, Netflix compte plus de 6 millions dabonnés au niveau local. Des sérivores quil faut satisfaire en permanence, avec la diffusion de fictions plus addictives les unes que les autres. Le service de streaming a réussi, au fil des années, à éclipser progressivement le paysage audiovisuel français grâce à des séries originales comme Stranger Things et Orange is the New Black mais aussi via des feuilletons dont la popularité sest construite à la TV, tels que Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Sherlock ou encore Mad Men. Pour nous rendr...

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Help the Hungry: Parents face terrible choice between putting food on the table and paying bills, as campaign gets emergency supplies out to people in dire financial need

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04/06/2020

Parents have spoken about the terrible toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking on family life, as the ongoing lockdown causes levels of hardship many in Britain have never experienced before. While job losses have pushed some into debt and poverty for the first time, parents struggling to get by before the crisis have found making ends meet each week has become almost impossible. One mother told The Independent she has gone without food for several days to make sure her children have enough to eat, while another talked about being forced to choose between food or heating the family home. Download the new Independent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now Paula Sarri-Gonzalez, a 29-year-old single mother with three children under the age of 10, has str...

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For them, graduation doesn’t just commemorate a personal achievement; it’s a collective milestone for the entire family, which they were supposed to celebrate together.

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03/06/2020

The class of 2020 isnt exactly going out with a bang, which is a bummer for the millions of 2020 graduates. But for first-generation graduates, the cosmic injustice is even harder to swallow. For them, graduation doesn't just commemorate a personal achievement; it marks a collective milestone for the entire family, which they were supposed to celebrate together. Tomás Mier's parents had organized a 200-person party. Aron Abrahams' parents had booked a trip to Eritrea to celebrate with his extended family. Maxine Philavong's mom had been planning for this day for over a year. Now they're all watching their graduation ceremonies from their couch, clinking glasses over Zoom, and throwing their caps up into ceiling fans. "I cant stop crying, Max," Yuppadee Bowers told her daughter Maxine, ...

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The videos show Floyd appearing to surrender before dying after his face was pressed into the street with an officer’s knee on his neck.

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03/06/2020

Videos taken by bystanders show the moments leading up to the deadly arrest of George Floyd and appear to undermine Minneapolis polices account that he was uncooperative. Minneapolis cops said that they were responding to reports of a man suspected of forgery on Monday evening, and encountered 46-year-old Floyd, who appeared to be under the influence sitting on top of his car. He was ordered to step from his car, the Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. But newly-surfaced videos do not appear to support that account. The first video, taken by a bystander through his windshield, shows several officers apprehending Floyd. But he doesnt appear to be resisting just standing next to his car. The second video was from su...