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New estimates of the number of asymptomatic people with the coronavirus suggest that "silent" COVID-19 is much more prevalent than once thought, according to two studies published Wednesday.

The first study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that 42 percent of cases from a group of people in Wuhan, China, were asymptomatic. The second study, published in Thorax, found much higher rates of asymptomatic individuals: 81 percent of cases on a cruise to Antarctica.

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The study from Wuhan looked at 78 patients who tested positive for COVID-19, and found that 33 of the individuals had no symptoms of the illness. These patients were more likely to be women, and more likely to be younger, in their 20s, 30s and early 40s.

Meanwhile, the second study, from Australian researchers, looked at 217 people on a cruise bound for Antarctica. The ship set sail in mid-March, just after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic.

The first fever on board was reported eight days into the voyage. Over the following two weeks, eight people had to be evacuated from the ship because they fell ill.

All of the 217 people who remained on board were tested for COVID-19. More than half (59 percent) tested positive, but just 19 percent of those patients had symptoms. The other 81 percent were symptom-free.

"Many people still haven't grasped the notion that asymptomatic people can be so common, and they wonder why it is they have to wear the mask when they're feeling well, or why they have to keep doing this social distancing stuff," Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, said.

"Simply exhaling can send out viral particles," said Schaffner, who wasn't involved with either study.

That's why the CDC encourages everyone to wear face coverings or masks in public to help prevent the spread of the virus. The agency's estimate of the prevalence of asymptomatic cases, based on mathematical modeling, is lower, at 35 percent.

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There was one positive finding, however, from the study in China: Asymptomatic individuals may not spread the virus for as long as symptomatic patients do. The patients without symptoms shed the virus for about eight days, compared with 19 days among those who did have symptoms, the researchers, from Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, found.

Still, asymptomatic COVID-19 cases remain a concern.

"This is very important because, theoretically, you can spread the infection when you're shedding the virus because it's so highly contagious," Dr. Aditya Shah, an infectious disease fellow at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said.

Though COVID-19 has proven it has the ability to sicken anyone at any age, people over age 65 and those with underlying chronic health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, appear to be most vulnerable.

"I don't know of a single person, no matter how independently-minded they are, who has any desire to give this virus to anyone else," Schaffner said. "But they have to recognize that they could."

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The sports void is real.

Those figuring out how to fill it are reaping the rewards.

After ESPN announced record viewership numbers for its 10-part Michael Jordan series The Last Dance, Turner Sports recorded similar ratings for a golf exhibition.

The network group announced on Monday that Sundays airing of The Match drew an average of 5.8 million viewers, rivaling ratings recorded by The Last Dance, the most-watched documentary in ESPN history. At its peak, 6.3 million people tuned in.

Those ratings set a record for a cable golf telecast, according to Turner Sports. That means more people tuned in to watch Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady play for charity than have ever watched an early round cable broadcast of a major.

For example, weekday coverage of the U.S. Open has broadcast on FS1 while early rounds at the Masters have aired on ESPN in recent years.

The star power on Sunday was huge as big as it gets in sports. But those numbers are still staggering for a casual competition with no real stakes attached.

By comparison, The Last Dance drew an average of 5.6 million live viewers for 10 episodes over a five-week run. The first episode that aired on April 19 drew 6.3 million viewers, which smashed ESPNs previous record for a documentary held by 2012s 30 for 30 Bo Jackson feature You Dont Know Bo, which drew 3.6 million viewers.

The premiere of The Last Dance was the first taste of anything resembling fresh sports on TV in more than a month after the COVID-19 shutdown. That it was a decades-old story with a known outcome didnt matter.

People were starving for sports. And they still are. Which explains in part why sports leagues like MLB and the NBA are contemplating resuming play, no matter the obstacle or the reality that the COVID-19 risks remain.

The stakes and the potential rewards are massive.

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Its impossible to believe that someone who had a rookie season as good as Baker Mayfield can be a bad NFL quarterback.

Its also hard to believe that anyone who played like Mayfield did last season can be a consistently good NFL quarterback.

What do the Cleveland Browns have with Mayfield? The answer isnt a satisfying one. The truth is, we dont know. You can make a strong argument for him being a future star or him being a bust from the No. 1 overall pick.

Its Kevin Stefanskis job to figure that out in his first year as Browns coach. The franchise desperately needs the answer to be on the future star end of the spectrum.

Dianna Russini of ESPN passed along a quote that illustrates whats at stake in Mayfields third season.

Kirk Cousins is a good NFL quarterback. We can argue if hes worth his salary and hes not without warts, but hes a reasonable starting quarterback. Cousins was excellent last year with Stefanski as his offensive coordinator in Minnesota. Cousins made the Pro Bowl.

To say Mayfield is way more talented means the bar is high. A couple Pro Bowls and a career 96.8 passer rating with 88 career starts, which is Cousins rsum, wouldnt be good enough. At least if you buy the opinion of one of the three AFC North coaches outside of Cleveland.

Mayfields talent is hard to deny. He won a Heisman Trophy, was the first pick of the draft and set a rookie record with 27 touchdowns despite not starting Clevelands first three games. Mayfield had some rough moments as a rookie too, but overall its hard to have a much better first year in the NFL.

Thats why its so hard to figure out last season, and if Stefanski understands what went wrong.

Baker Mayfield didn't have a great follow-up to his fine rookie season. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

There are plenty of reasonable excuses for Mayfield last season. Odell Beckham Jr. played through injury most of the season. His offensive line wasnt good. First-year coach Freddie Kitchens was in over his head.

Still, Mayfield deserves a lot of blame for a terrible season. His decision-making was poor. He threw 22 interceptions and every key stat dipped. Cousins, to go back to that comparison, never had a season that bad.

Stefanski talked with Yahoo Sports Terez Paylor last season and discussed his offense, which was heavy on running the ball and setting up play-action. It worked great for Cousins, and Paylor didnt think Stefanskis scheme would change much with Mayfield at quarterback.

We want to play to our strengths, and any time youre thinking about that, youre always thinking about the quarterback, Stefanski told Paylor. We saw an offense that Kirk could excel in with the keeper game and the play-action, because hes so accurate on the move. And then, with the threats we had to get down the field we just thought there was potential there.

The potential is there with Mayfield too. The Browns have a notoriously rough time finding a franchise quarterback. Mayfields 2018 season gave everyone hope. His 2019 season brought about a lot of concern.

If Stefanski can unlock what worked in 2018 and get Mayfield back to that level, itll make the rest of his job a lot easier.

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The armies of the world's two most populous nations are locked in a tense face-off high in the Himalayas, which has the potential to escalate as they seek to further their strategic goals.

Officials quoted by the Indian media say thousands of Chinese troops have forced their way into the Galwan valley in Ladakh, in the disputed Kashmir region.

Indian leaders and military strategists have clearly been left stunned.

The reports say that in early May, Chinese forces put up tents, dug trenches and moved heavy equipment several kilometres inside what had been regarded by India as its territory. The move came after India built a road several hundred kilometres long connecting to a high-altitude forward air base which it reactivated in 2008.

The message from China appears clear to observers in Delhi - this is not a routine incursion.

"The situation is serious. The Chinese have come into territory which they themselves accepted as part of India. It has completely changed the status quo," says Ajai Shukla, an Indian military expert who served as a colonel in the army.

China takes a different view, saying it's India which has changed facts on the ground.

India and China share a border more than 3,440km (2,100 miles) long and have overlapping territorial claims. Their border patrols often bump into each other, resulting in occasional scuffles but both sides insist no bullet has been fired in four decades.

Their armies - two of the world's largest - come face to face at many points. The poorly demarcated Line of Actual Control (LAC) separates the two sides. Rivers, lakes and snowcaps mean the line separating soldiers can shift and they often come close to confrontation.

The current military tension is not limited to Ladakh. Soldiers from the two sides are also eyeball-to-eyeball in Naku La, on the border between China and the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim. Earlier this month they reportedly came to blows.

And there's a row over a new map put out by Nepal, too, which accuses India of encroaching on its territory by building a road connecting with China.

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There are several reasons - but competing strategic goals lie at the root, and both sides blame each other.

"The traditionally peaceful Galwan River has now become a hotspot because it is where the LAC is closest to the new road India has built along the Shyok River to Daulet Beg Oldi (DBO) - the most remote and vulnerable area along the LAC in Ladakh," Mr Shukla says.

India's decision to ramp up infrastructure seems to have infuriated Beijing.

Chinese state-run media outlet Global Times said categorically: "The Galwan Valley region is Chinese territory, and the local border control situation was very clear."

"According to the Chinese military, India is the one which has forced its way into the Galwan valley. So, India is changing the status quo along the LAC - that has angered the Chinese," says Dr Long Xingchun, president of the Chengdu Institute of World Affairs (CIWA), a think tank.

Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia programme at the Wilson Center, another think tank, says this face-off is not routine. He adds China's "massive deployment of soldiers is a show of strength".

The road could boost Delhi's capability to move men and material rapidly in case of a conflict.

Differences have been growing in the past year over other areas of policy too.

When India controversially decided to end Jammu and Kashmir's limited autonomy in August last year, it also redrew the region's map.

The new federally-administered Ladakh included Aksai Chin, an area India claims but China controls.

Senior leaders of India's Hindu-nationalist BJP government have also been talking about recapturing Pakistan-administered Kashmir. A strategic road, the Karakoram highway, passes through this area that connects China with its long-term ally Pakistan. Beijing has invested about $60bn (48bn) in Pakistan's infrastructure - the so-called China Pakistan Economic corridor (CPEC) - as part of its Belt and Road Initiative and the highway is key to transporting goods to and from the southern Pakistani port of Gwadar. The port gives China a foothold in the Arabian Sea.

In addition, China was unhappy when India initially banned all exports of medical and protective equipment to shore up its stocks soon after the coronavirus pandemic started earlier this year.

Reports in the Indian media said soldiers from the two sides clashed on at least two occasions in Ladakh. Stand-offs are reported in at least three locations: the Galwan valley; Hot Springs; and Pangong lake to the south.

"We routinely see both armies crossing the LAC - it's fairly common and such incidents are resolved at the local military level. But this time, the build-up is the largest we have ever seen," says former Indian diplomat P Stobdan, an expert in Ladakh and India-China affairs.

"The stand-off is happening at some strategic areas that are important for India. If Pangong lake is taken, Ladakh can't be defended. If the Chinese military is allowed to settle in the strategic valley of Shyok, then the Nubra valley and even Siachen can be reached."

In what seems to be an intelligence failure, India seems to have been caught off guard again. According to Indian media accounts, the country's soldiers were outnumbered and surrounded when China swiftly diverted men and machines from a military exercise to the border region.

This triggered alarm in Delhi - and India has limited room for manoeuvre. It can either seek to persuade Beijing to withdraw its troops through dialogue or try to remove them by force. Neither is an easy option.

"China is the world's second-largest military power. Technologically it's superior to India. Infrastructure on the other side is very advanced. Financially, China can divert its resources to achieve its military goals, whereas the Indian economy has been struggling in recent years, and the coronavirus crisis has worsened the situation," says Ajai Shukla.

History holds difficult lessons for India. It suffered a humiliating defeat during the 1962 border conflict with China. India says China occupies 38,000km of its territory. Several rounds of talks in the last three decades have failed to resolve the boundary issues.

China already controls the Aksai Chin area further east of Ladakh and this region, claimed by India, is strategically important for Beijing as it connect its Xinjiang province with western Tibet.

In 2017 India and China were engaged in a similar stand-off lasting more than two months in Doklam plateau, a tri-junction between India, China and Bhutan.

India objected to China building a road in a region claimed by Bhutan. The Chinese stood firm. Within six months, Indian media reported that Beijing had built a permanent all-weather military complex there.

This time, too, talks are seen as the only way forward - both countries have so much to lose in a military conflict.

"China has no intention to escalate tensions and I think India also doesn't want a conflict. But the situation depends on both sides. The Indian government should not be guided by the nationalistic media comments," says Dr Long Xingchun of the CIWA in Chengdu. "Both countries have the ability to solve the dispute through high-level talks."

Chinese media have given hardly any coverage to the border issue, which is being interpreted as a possible signal that a route to talks will be sought.

Pratyush Rao, associate director for South Asia at Control Risks consultancy, says both sides have "a clear interest in prioritising their economic recovery" and avoiding military escalation.

"It is important to recognise that both sides have a creditable record of maintaining relative peace and stability along their disputed border."

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The Kentucky Wildcats have a plethora of stars that will enter the 2020 NBA Draft. However, its unlikely that all five will actually be drafted. Many of the players like Immanuel Quickley and Nick Richards have seen their stock fluctuate tremendously over the last few months.

As for point guard Tyrese Maxey, ever since he was brought into Kentucky, he was destined to be a lottery pick after just one season. Maxeys potential stardom was obvious early on in his career at Kentucky.

The Wildcats kicked off the season against the Michigan State Spartans. That game, Maxey dropped 26 points and, in theory, won the Wildcats the game. His ability to score is the No. 1 reason why scouts are craving Maxey.

Likely a lottery pick, Maxey was recently projected to go 11th overall to the San Antonio Spurs in the most recent Yahoo! Sports mock draft.

Maxey struggled a little bit at Kentucky this year but found ways to get better off the ball once his teammate Immanuel Quickley started getting hot late in the season. Hes a great scorer who has the ability to change games and make his teammates better. Maxey scored 20 or more in six games this season on a very talented Kentucky team, Yahoo! Sports Krysten Peek wrote.

To be fair, with Dejounte Murray and Derrick White, the Spurs adding Maxey doesnt make too much sense.

That said, Maxey wasnt the only SEC star that was placed as a lottery pick. Freshman phenom Anthony Edwards was the top-overall selection. Seventh and then ninth were Vanderbilt forward Aaron Nesmith and Auburn forward Isaac Okoro respectively.

Projected to be a top-five pick entering the college basketball season, Maxey has continued to slip in rankings, so itll be interesting where hell be headed in the June 25 draft which will almost certainly not be on June 25.

As for other Wildcats, Immanuel Quickley nearly heard his name called in the first round, but he goes 31st overall to the Dallas Mavericks.

Ashton Hagans is up next, as he went 37th overall to the Washington Wizards, where he could be the heir to John Walls throne.

Finally, Nick Richards goes 56th overall to the Charlotte Hornets, where he would team up with former Cats PJ Washington and Malik Monk.

As has been the case in every mock draft, EJ Montgomery does not hear his name called.

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(Bloomberg) -- Oil is heading for a third weekly gain on signs the market is slowly rebalancing as major producers slash supply and consumption recovers after a historic collapse in demand due to the coronavirus.

Futures in New York are up about 13% this week and traded near a six-week high on Friday around $28 a barrel. Chinas industrial output increased in April for the first time since the outbreak, signaling economic recovery aided by government stimulus efforts. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has slashed supply to its customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia as OPEC and its allies reduce production sharply.

Oil is down more than 50% this year after a rout that pushed prices below zero and the road back to pre-virus levels of demand looks long and uncertain. Still, bright sports have emerged this week, with BP Plc seeing oil demand surging back and the International Energy Agency saying the markets outlook has improved. OPEC+ has cut daily exports by almost 6 million barrels during the first 14 days of this month, according to Petro-Logistics, buoying the global Brent benchmark above $30.

We believe stocks will be reduced gradually over the next 12 months or so, said Rystad Energy head of oil markets Bjornar Tonhaugen. Brent stabilizing above $30 gives the market confidence that frightening days of negative prices and record daily declines are behind us.

Signs of a tighter market are increasing across the globe. Timespreads -- market indicators that point to the level of oversupply -- are the least bearish in about two months in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East. Options markets have also turned their least bearish since March.

Industrial output in China rose 3.9% from a year earlier, reversing a drop of 1.1% in March, data showed Friday. In spite of the improvement, the Chinese economy hasnt returned to normal level, said Liu Aihua, a spokeswoman for the National Bureau of Statistics.

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The market recovery remains fragile. Over 30 tankers laden with Saudi Arabian oil are set to reach the U.S. in May and June, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg, putting fresh pressure on storage just as a glut in America shows signs of easing

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Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Departments investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said.

Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a law enforcement action.

The seizure represents a significant escalation in the investigation into whether Burr violated a law preventing members of Congress from trading on insider information they have gleaned from their official work.

To obtain a search warrant, federal agents and prosecutors must persuade a judge they have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. The law enforcement official said the Justice Department is examining Burr's communications with his broker.

Such a warrant being served on a sitting U.S. senator would require approval from the highest ranks of the Justice Department and is a step that would not be taken lightly. Kerri Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, declined to comment.

A second law enforcement official said FBI agents served a warrant in recent days on Apple to obtain information from Burr's iCloud account and said agents used data obtained from the California-based company as part of the evidence used to obtain the warrant for the senators phone.

Burr sold a significant percentage of his stock portfolio in 33 different transactions on Feb. 13, just as his committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings and a week before the stock market declined sharply. Much of the stock was invested in businesses that in subsequent weeks were hit hard by the plunging market.

Burr and other senators received briefings from U.S. public health officials before the stock sales.

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A spokesperson for the FBI did not return phone messages seeking comment. A spokeswoman for Burr declined to comment. Burr has said he does not plan to run for reelection in 2022.

Burrs sell-off which was publicly disclosed in ranges amounted to between $628,000 and $1.72 million. The stock trades were first reported by the Center for Responsive Politics and ProPublica.

After the sales became public, Burr said that he would ask the Senate Ethics Committee to review them.

Burr is not the only senator who has come under fire for dumping stock as the virus neared the United States.

In late February and early March, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) sold stocks valued at between $1.25 million and $3.1 million in companies that later dropped significantly, including ExxonMobil. She also bought shares in Citrix, which makes telework software.

Loeffler, who was appointed to her seat to fill a vacancy and faces an election later this year, said after the sales became public that she and her husband would divest all individual stocks.

Burr, a longtime supporter of federal programs responsible for dealing with a pandemic, sits on two Senate committees that got early briefings on the coronavirus the Intelligence Committee and the Senate committee that handles health issues.

The health committee received a briefing on the virus on Feb. 12, one day before his stock trades.

The same day Burr sold his stocks, Burr's brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of six stocks, according to documents filed with the Office of Government Ethics. Fauth serves on the National Mediation Board, which provides mediation for labor disputes in the aviation and rail industries.

Burr has denied coordinating trading with his brother-in-law.

In 2012, Congress prohibited lawmakers from acting on intelligence they learn because of their privileged position, such as briefings with high-level federal officials.

Under the STOCK Act, lawmakers are required to disclose their stock market activity but are still allowed to own stock, even in industries they might oversee.

The law passed the Senate in 2012 in a 96-3 vote. Among the three senators to oppose the bill was Burr.

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Two people have been arrested after human remains were found inside two suitcases in the UK.

Police in Gloucestershire, in southwest England, were called after members of the public spotted the driver of a vehicle acting suspiciously, the BBC reported.

A man and woman were questioned by a responding officer in the Forest of Dean after they were allegedly spotted walking along the road with a suitcase, The Mirror reported.

The officer allegedly found a human torso inside the suitcase before other body parts were discovered in a second suitcase shortly after 10.30pm on Tuesday (local time).

Gloucestershire Police confirmed the two individuals were arrested on suspicion of murder.

Three tents were erected at the scene as investigations are ongoing. Source: BPM Media

"A woman from Birmingham aged in her 20s and a man from Wolverhampton aged in his 30s have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the investigation and remain in police custody, they said in a statement.

Police believe the victim to be a woman, however forensic examinations to identify the victim are ongoing, the BBC reported.

Detectives continue to question the two individuals.

While several media reports said body parts had been found in the surrounding woodland, Detective Chief inspector John Turner said that was not the case.

Several roads in the area have been closed with investigations at the scene expected to continue into Friday.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The city of Moscow said on Wednesday it had ascribed the deaths of more than 60% of coronavirus patients in April to other causes as it defended what it said was the superior way it and Russia counted the number of people killed by the novel virus.

At 242,271, Russia has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States, something it attributes to a massive testing programme which it says has seen almost 6 million tests conducted.

But with 2,212 coronavirus deaths, Russia also has one of the world's lowest mortality rates. Moscow, the epicentre of the country's outbreak, accounts for 1,232 of those deaths.

The disparity between the high number of cases and the relatively low number of deaths has prompted Kremlin critics and various Western and Russian media outlets to question the veracity of Russia's official death statistics.

Data published at the weekend showing that the total number of deaths registered in Moscow rose sharply in April compared with the same month last year and was also significantly higher than the number officially confirmed as having been caused by the new virus raised further suspicions.

Moscow's Department of Health acknowledged in a statement on Wednesday that the number of deaths in April, 11,846, had been 1,841 higher than the same month last year and almost triple the number of people registered as having died of the virus.

But it flatly denied it had been dishonestly lowering the Russian capital's coronavirus death toll. Tatyana Golikova, Russia's health minister, has also denied any falsification of the statistics.

Unlike many other countries, Moscow's department of health said it and Russia conducted post-mortem autopsies in 100% of deaths where coronavirus was suspected as the main cause.

"Therefore, post-mortem diagnoses and causes of death recorded in Moscow are ultimately extremely accurate, and mortality data is completely transparent," it said.

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"It's impossible in other COVID-19 cases to name the cause of death. So, for example in over 60% of deaths the cause was clearly for different reasons such as vascular failures (such as heart attacks), stage 4 malignant diseases, leukaemia, systemic diseases which involve organ failure, and other incurable fatal diseases."

It said 639 people in Moscow had died in April as a direct result of the coronavirus and its complications like pneumonia.

The Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday that the Russian Foreign Ministry wanted official retractions from two Western newspapers who had published what it said was incorrect information about the country's coronavirus death rate.

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A woman wears a sign during a rally to protest the February shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, last week in Brunswick, Ga. (John Bazemore / Associated Press)

To the editor: I was pleased to learn of the arrest of Gregory and Travis McMichaels 74 days after they allegedly shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was jogging in Brunswick, Ga.

While many Americans were shocked by this wanton cruelty, committed in broad daylight on a quiet residential street, most black people were not at all surprised. As a collective, we have been bedeviled by such terrorism sometimes sanctioned by the government since the founding of this nation.

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Tianna Bartoletta, a black woman, expressed the challenges facing African American joggers in a recent New York Times interview: "I've run through streets in Morocco, Italy, Barcelona, Netherlands, China and Japan, and it's only in my home country that I wonder if I'll make it back home."

What a pity.

Legrand H. Clegg II, Compton

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To the editor: Some can try to rationalize the recent shooting of an unarmed young man in Georgia, but isnt it evident that racism played an important part, if not the only part? Isn't it also clear that racism is on the rise and being fueled by some high-level political leaders?

The only way to fight racial intolerance is to stand up to it. Some simply lack the courage to do so.

Edward A. Sussman, Fountain Valley

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To the editor: The coronavirus has struck the world just as the 1918 influenza pandemic did a little more than 100 years ago. Unfortunately, the shooting death of Arbery in Georgia last February also took us back 100 years.

The vicious attack on a black runner, shot down by two white men, should shock all Americans. The video of the shooting makes Arbery's death look like a modern-day lynching, and it took more than two months for his attackers to be arrested.

I'm sure we'll get a vaccine that will conquer the coronavirus long before we discover a cure for racism and hatred.

Richard H. Katz, Los Angeles

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