Epicenter of pandemic shifts to South America
Physiotherapist, Ana Carolina Xavier applies a Brazilian physiotherapy method while attending to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient Marcia Guimaraes, 40, in Rio de Janeiro’s outskirts, Brazil, on May 23, 2020.
The World checks in with a leading epidemiologist, Caroline Buckee from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the latest coronavirus news: where the virus is now spreading across the globe, the timeline on a vaccine, and how we are doing to slow the spread of disease. And, is the United States entering a new Cold War, this time with China? The two nations were already sparring over trade, technology, and territory in the Pacific, before a war of words and accusations erupted over the response to the pandemic. The World’s Patrick Winn has more on the tense situation. Also, for the past few months, office workers across the globe have been working from home, upending the way meetings are conducted and employee interactions occur. Host Marco Werman speaks with Hayden Brown, president and CEO of Upwork, an online hiring platform for remote and independent professionals, about the future of working from home. Finally, the canals of Venice are clear for the first time in decades, but those legendary waterways that typically draw up to 30 million people a year to Venice may also be the city’s downfall. Marco Werman speaks with Sara Moraca of InsideClimate News, about the future of the city that could be inundated by the end of the century.
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