A woman wearing a protective mask walks in the street on January 31, 2020 in Wuhan.
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The 2019nC0V coronavirus has infected 29,000 and killed more than 800 people in and around the city of Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province, but life goes on under quarantine for the more than 11 million residents of the metropolis. No one knows when the lockdown will end; until that day arrives, Wuhan residents continue to mostly remain inside their homes. Below are some images of what it has been like when they venture out, as well as scenes from a few of the places where coronavirus patients have been isolated.
A Wuhan resident rests at a seat within a public sculpture on February 8.
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A woman wears a protective mask while exercising on January 27.
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A masked man rides a bicycle across the Yangtze River Bridge on January 31.
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An aerial view of an empty flyover in Wuhan on February 7.
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A man browsing what’s left of the vegetables in a market on January 23.
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A worker disinfects the doors in a hotel accommodating isolated people in Wuhan on February 3.
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Workers in Wuhan carry vegetables from a truck at a hospital on February 10.
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Three vendors play cards while wearing protective masks in an alley on January 31.
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Workers continue to prepare beds at Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Center on February 4.
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A patient walks inside the Wuhan International Convention and Exhibition Center’s “Fangcang Hospital” on February 5 after it was opened to receive coronavirus patients with mild pneumonia.
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A man drags a handcart across a road in Wuhan on February 5.
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Your plan to go “one and done” just got more complicated
Federal health agencies on Tuesday will call for an immediate pause in use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine after six recipients in the United States developed a rare disorder involving blood clots within about two weeks of vaccination, officials briefed on the decision said.
All six recipients were women between the ages of 18 and 48. One woman died and a second woman in Nebraska has been hospitalized in critical condition, the officials said.
Nearly seven million people in the United States have received Johnson & Johnson shots so far, and roughly nine million more doses have been shipped out to the states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While the move is framed as a recommendation to health practitioners in the states, the federal government is expected to pause administration of the vaccine at all federally run vaccination sites. Federal officials expect that state health officials will take that as a strong signal to do the same.
Scientists with the Food and Drug Administration and C.D.C. will jointly examine possible links between the vaccine and the disorder and determine whether the F.D.A. should continue to authorize use of the vaccine for all adults or limit the authorization. An emergency meeting of the C.D.C.’s outside advisory committee has been scheduled for Wednesday, officials said.
Fallout from the killing of Daunte Wright hits the sports world
ESPN reporting with @wojespn: In the aftermath of a police shooting that’s caused unrest in Minneapolis, conversations are ongoing about the possible postponement of the Nets-Timberwolves game tonight. The Twins-Red Sox game has been postponed. Decision expected this afternoon.
Cindy McCain, who endorsed Biden during the campaign, is reportedly his pick for U.S. ambassador to the U.N. World Food Programme
President JOE BIDEN is preparing to name Republican CINDY MCCAIN to a coveted ambassador post in Western Europe in what would be his administration’s first Republican appointee to a Senate-confirmed position.
McCain is undergoing vetting to be nominated for U.S. ambassador to the U.N. World Food Programme, a mission based in Rome, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. This comes after the administration declined to install at least one member from the opposing party in a Cabinet position — a practice of three consecutive presidents (BILL CLINTON, GEORGE W. BUSH and BARACK OBAMA) before DONALD TRUMP broke the streak.
… As chair of the McCain Institute board of trustees, McCain has worked on curbing world hunger and human trafficking. During the 2008 campaign, she traveled to Georgia with the U.N.’s World Food Programme to visit wounded soldiers after a Russian invasion and also monitored the program’s work in Southeast Asia and Africa.