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Polling Shows Two-Thirds of Americans Back Funding for Postal Service in Next Coronavirus Relief Package | Common Dreams News

“The public expects members of Congress and the White House to show appreciation for the importance of USPS and to ensure that essential postal services continue.”
— Read on www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/30/polling-shows-two-thirds-americans-back-funding-postal-service-next-coronavirus

Old Drugs May Find a New Purpose: Fighting the Coronavirus – The New York Times

A “drug repurposing” strategy uncovers dozens of compounds that have the unexpected potential to combat the virus.

“I’m going to be brutally honest with you: 95 to 98 percent of these are going to fail,” said Sumit K. Chanda, a virologist at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, Calif. “But we only need one or two.”