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Nearly 200M pounds of Canadian french fry potatoes stuck in storage

Posted by Jackie Dunham, CTVNews.ca

on Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:43

TORONTO — With many restaurants closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Canadian farmers have been forced to freeze nearly 200 million pounds of potatoes destined to become french fries because there is no one to buy them.

That’s according to Kevin MacIsaac, the general manager of the United Potato Growers of Canada, who says his organization has reached out to the provinces and estimates that between 1.5 and 200 million pounds of excess raw potatoes have been put into storage as a result of the health emergency.

“It is a fairly large concern,” he told…Click for full article.

A Deep Dive On Coronavirus Vaccine Plays Moderna, Inovio

Posted by Shanthi Rexaline

on Monday, 27 April 2020 10:24

Among the six coronavirus vaccine candidates that have entered human trials, two belong to publicly listed U.S. companies: Moderna Inc and Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc Both stocks have rallied in reaction to updates on R&D and funding.

Moderna is up about 143% year-to-date and Inovio is higher by 265%.

Moderna, Inovio’s Vaccine Candidates

Both Moderna and Inovio use a modern approach as opposed to conventional vaccines that employ a weakened form of the pathogen, a killed pathogen or specific pieces of pathogen such as its protein, sugar or capsid.

Moderna is developing mRNA-1273, an mRNA vaccine, against the new coronavirus in collaboration with the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It is a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 encoding for the spike, or S, protein….CLICK for complete article

As bars reopen new pick-up and rejection lines emerge

on Monday, 27 April 2020 6:14

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How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation

Posted by Katie Jones

on Tuesday, 14 April 2020 9:48

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to wreak havoc across the globe, people’s time that would have otherwise been spent perusing malls or going to live events, is now being spent on the sofa.

During this period of pandemic-induced social isolation, it’s no surprise that people are consuming vast amounts of media. Today’s graphics use data from a Global Web Index report to explore how people have increased their media consumption as a result of the outbreak, and how it differs across each generation…CLICK for complete article

For Those Missing Sports

on Monday, 13 April 2020 10:11

Turn the sound up! ~ Ed