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NEW YORK, NY Yahoo Sports and the Womens Sports Foundation today announced #WeKeepPlaying, a first of its kind live event bringing together some of the most iconic women in professional sports to inspire young athletes during the COVID-19 crisis. The elite athletes will share their own stories of personal resilience to engage and inspire young athletes across the globe during this unprecedented time. The event will stream live on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 4:00 pm ET exclusively on the Yahoo Sports mobile app and YahooSports.com.

The event, which will be moderated by journalist Cari Champion, will include some of the most renowned athletes across basketball, soccer, swimming, football, hockey and track & field who will speak to young athletes about the importance of staying healthy mentally, physically and emotionally. #WeKeepPlaying will also include a conversation with sports icon, international activist and Womens Sports Foundation founder, Billie Jean King, and former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice who was also the first woman to be admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club.

Sports play a vital role in the mental and physical health of young athletes, so, as the global athletic community pauses its activity, it is more important than ever to have a candid conversation about the wellbeing of our youth, said Guru Gowrappan, Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Media. Yahoo Sports is committed to connecting people to their passions, and providing fans with comprehensive access to sports content and commerce that they crave. We are proud to bring our audience content that addresses the needs of our young athletes during these unprecedented times.

During this challenging time of COVID-19, we know that young girls all across the country cannot participate in sports or live out their passions on the field, court, ice, pool or anywhere they play sports, said Billie Jean King, founder of the Womens Sports Foundation. Our Foundation is the ally and advocate for all girls and women: we know her, we cheer for her, we believe in her, and we are here for her. That is why we are bringing together our community of prominent women athletes and leaders to empower, support and inspire young girls and each other during this unprecedented time.

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Viewers will be able to submit questions in the lead up to the live event via @YahooSports on Twitter and Facebook by using #WeKeepPlaying. Content from this conversation will be featured on Yahoo Sports, which has been offering its audience the latest information, content and conversation -- especially around mental health -- during the crisis.

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Berlin (AFP) - With the coronavirus pandemic wiping clean much of the calendar of public events in Germany, the memorial at the Buchenwald former concentration camp marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation on Saturday in a new way.

It published online a "Declaration of Thuringia" (www.thueringer-erklaerung.de) -- in German, English and French -- warning that "human rights, democracy and freedom can by no means be taken for granted" as "right-wing radicalism and authoritarianism are on the rise".

Signed by figures from politics and civil society, including Thuringia state premier Bodo Ramelow and Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor Ivan Ivanji, the text described as a grave threat "a form of populism emboldened by a racially motivated superiority complex, nationalism and the undermining of European unity".

"Racism and anti-Semitism are openly propagated and have led to acts of violence in Germany that would have been inconceivable even several years ago," it stated.

"Yesterday's destructive poisons are once again being touted as a universal remedy for society's ills."

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The website also published brief statements from people who survived Buchenwald, where around 56,000 people perished in the main camp and 20,000 in the satellite installation Dora between 1937 and a prisoners' uprising in April 1945.

"Not everybody can be a hero, a politician, a philosopher, a helper. But each and every one of us can respect the dignity of every other individual and give someone in need a helping hand," wrote Jack Unikoski, a 93-year-old Polish former inmate who today lives in Australia.

"Be friendly and tolerant of other people. Hatred for one group can easily spread to the others. We learned the hard way -- 'It can happen to you, too'," wrote Chava Ginsburg, a 90-year-old Hungarian woman who survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and women's camp Markkleeberg, another satellite camp of Buchenwald.

Along with 40 more people from 14 countries who lived through the concentration camps, the two were among those invited to the commemoration originally slated for April 5 and 7 in Buchenwald and Dora.

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Public events planned over several days to mark the liberation have all been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But memorial director Volkhard Knigge said they would all be rescheduled for next year.

Meanwhile, he asked members of the public to place flowers at the entrances to both camps Saturday -- "while respecting social distancing rules".

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Other memorials around Germany, including Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen, plan similar online events in the coming days.

"The good thing to be found amidst every evil is that we humans rediscover ourselves," wrote Hungarian philosopher Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, 94, another Buchenwald and Auschwitz survivor.

"We can once again do things for ourselves; we can help each other, have fun with each other," Fahidi-Pusztai said.

"We can more easily get through even crises with humour and good cheer. Believe me. I know only all too well."

The 75th anniversaries of the liberation of the camps falls in a year when Germany has seen a string of far-right and anti-Semitic attacks.

In February, a far-right extremist conspiracy theorist shot nine people dead, in a rare mass shooting that shocked the nation.

Last autumn, another shooter killed two in an attempted attack on a synagogue in Halle, a city in Germany's former communist East.

And in June 2019, a pro-refugee local politician from Angela Merkel's conservative party was shot at his home.

Germany's VS domestic intelligence service has warned that far-right terrorism and violence represent "the greatest danger to democracy" in the country.

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Testing for the coronavirus at Abbott Laboratories in Michigan. (AP Foto/Carlos Osorio)

On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading public health expert and adviser to President Trump, announced on CNN that within a week or so, we are going to have a relatively large number of tests to determine if recovered COVID-19 patients, including those who never showed symptoms, have evidence of immunity. Among policymakers, there is discussion about whether results of this testing could be used to issue certificates of immunity that would allow individuals to return to normal life. Here are some of the key scientific considerations that will play into their conversations.

At this time, there is promising preliminary evidence that antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, will prevent reinfection. A recent study reported that five critically ill patients improved after receiving antibody-rich plasma from donors who had recovered from COVID-19. This potential treatment for COVID-19 is being further investigated with FDA guidance. Another study found that a subset of antibodies in 16 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 were able to neutralize, or prevent reinfection, with SARS-CoV-2. Given the small size of each of these studies, it is difficult to know if the findings will hold true at a population level. We do not yet know if all COVID-19 patients are able to mount effective immunity and prevent reinfection.

The important underlying concept is that not all antibodies can prevent infections. When we have an infection, our immune system will create many different antibodies. Some antibodies, called non-neutralizing antibodies, will attach to parts of the infectious agent, in this case SARS-CoV-2, that are not involved in how it invades our cells to cause disease. Think of non-neutralizing antibodies like an oven mitt on the wrong hand when youre taking a tray out of the oven useless for preventing a burn. At this time, it is not clear if every COVID-19 patient will develop neutralizing antibodies, or if only a subset will develop immunity that can prevent reinfection.

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In China, Japan and South Korea, there are reports of COVID-19 patients who recovered completely, then developed new symptoms and tested positive for the virus a second time. It is not clear if these patients were reinfected or, more optimistically, if they had an unexplained increase in the virus, also called a reactivation, and symptom relapse. Its also possible that some cases were false positives the test was positive, but the patient did not have COVID-19. In South Korea, 51 patients from Daegu and the surrounding North Gyeongsang Province, the epicenters of the countrys COVID-19 outbreak, showed this pattern of recovery and then renewed symptoms. Jeong Eun-kyeong, director-general of the Korean Centers for Disease Control, publicly stated that it is likely due to reactivation, not reinfection. Additional data to put the matter to rest is not yet available, but a number of researchers are working to find answers.

Another open question with COVID-19 immunity is how long it will last. Other coronavirus strains that cause seasonal infections like the common cold, show declining immunity a few weeks after infection, and reinfection within a year. But SARS-CoV, the cause of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome pandemic, has more genetic similarity to SARS-CoV-2 and more reassuring immunity data. SARS patients had two to three years of protection from reinfection. If that is also true of COVID-19, it could buy the world enough time to develop and distribute a vaccine, which is probably at least 18 months off.

Immune testing for COVID-19 is inherently valuable. Widespread use will help us understand the extent of the viruss spread in the population and can help identify individuals who are still vulnerable to infection.

The economic implications of certificates of immunity are highly appealing. Expedited research will help enable our leaders to make smart safe decisions for the well-being of all.

Ashita S. Batavia, MD, MSc, is a board-certified infectious disease specialist and public health expert with extensive experience in treating epidemics. She works at Lawrence Hospital NYP-Columbia. (Instagram: @ashita_batavia)

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WASHINGTON Russian spies are likely using the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to collect intelligence on U.S. supply lines, which have struggled to provide adequate medical equipment, according to an intelligence report issued earlier this week by the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by Yahoo News.

The Russian intelligence services likely are watching the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says says an April 6 intelligence bulletin produced by the DHS Counterintelligence Mission Center.

Intelligence collection on medical supply chain vulnerabilities could inform future operations aimed at weakening key logistical elements in preparation for a wartime attack, or opportunistically during an emergency, the document says.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the report comes at a time when the U.S. has surpassed other countries in coronavirus cases, while also facing domestic concerns about shortfalls in medical supplies, particularly for personal protective equipment, or PPE, for health care providers. After weeks of delays, President Trump last month authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of equipment, including ventilators and N95 respirator masks.

Moscow, in the meantime, has already scored some major public relations coups amid the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this month, Russia sent a planeload of medical equipment to the United States in what at first appeared to be a donation, though it was later revealed that the United States paid for supplies.

On Friday, President Trump spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the coronavirus pandemic, the White House announced.

Last month, Russia flew in plane loads of medical equipment and more than 100 personnel to Italy as part of what it describes a humanitarian mission. But La Stampa, an Italian newspaper, reported that Russian military intelligence officials were also on those flights.

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Michael Carpenter, managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, told Yahoo News he wasnt surprised by the reports claims, given how Russia operates. Russian intelligence service is always probing vulnerabilities among adversaries. Its not surprising even in the midst of a pandemic where they are supposed to be focusing on their own safety and health, theyre scrutinizing our supply chain vulnerabilities, our critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and so forth, said Carpenter, who previously served as a senior Pentagon official responsible for Russia.

This pandemic is essentially a war game of countries resilience, how command and control works, how governments respond rapidly, he added.

The unclassified DHS report notes that Russia has since January conducted a disinformation campaign related to the coronavirus epidemic. DHS also expects that Russia will use the current crisis as a way to improve its future information operations.

We expect the Kremlin analyzes American public reaction to disinformation and adjusts techniques to maximize the impact both during the current COVID-19 situation and in the future, such as Russias ongoing 2020 election interference, the report says.

Daniel Hoffman, a retired CIA senior Intelligence Officer, said that Russia is using its propaganda to send a not so cryptic message to the U.S. government. "The Russians are well aware that we know what our vulnerabilities are," he said. "Implicitly threatening us, the Kremlin wants us to know they also know our vulnerabilities."

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Another target of Kremlin propaganda are Russians, according to Bret Schafer, a media and digital disinformation fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. During the 2016 presidential elections, the Kremlin-directed interference campaign spread conspiracy theories.

Now its different, according to Schafer. Instead, the narrative framing from state-backed outlets has generally been to portray the Russian governments response to the crisis as competent, while framing the EU and U.S.s response as inept, he wrote in an email to Yahoo news.

Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., agreed that the focus of Russian information operations now appears to be on a domestic audience. The goal is to show Russians what Putin is accomplishing, she says.

Im sure they're watching as different parts of our supply chain are breaking down under this unique environment, she says. They can use that to broadcast at home.

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By Deena Beasley

(Reuters) - More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc., according to new data based on patient observation.

The analysis, published on Friday by the New England Journal of Medicine, does not detail what other treatments the 61 hospitalized patients were given and data on eight of them were not included -- in one case because of a dosing error.

The paper's author called the findings "hopeful," but cautioned that it is difficult to interpret the results since they do not include comparison to a control group, as would be the case in a randomized clinical trial. In addition, the patient numbers were small, the details being disclosed are limited, and the follow-up time was relatively short.

There are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.

Gilead last month sharply limited its compassionate use program for remdesivir and is conducting its own clinical trials of the antiviral drug, with results expected in coming weeks. Researchers in China as well as the U.S. National Institutes of Health are also testing the drug in COVID-19 patients.

The new analysis includes patients in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan who received a 10-day course of intravenous remdesivir.

Before the treatment, 30 patients were on mechanical ventilators, and four were on a machine that pumps blood from the patient's body through an artificial oxygenator. After a median follow-up of 18 days, 36 patients, or 68%, had an improvement in oxygen-support class, including more than half of the 30 patients receiving mechanical ventilation who had their breathing tubes removed. A total of 25 patients, or 47%, were discharged from the hospital. Seven patients, 13% of the total, died.

Twelve patients, 23%, had serious side effects including multiple-organ-dysfunction syndrome, septic shock and acute kidney injury.

"We look forward to the results of controlled clinical trials to potentially validate these findings," wrote Dr. Jonathan Grein, the paper's lead author and director of hospital epidemiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

(Reporting By Deena Beasley; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

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Tom Brady and Donald Trump hung out through the years. Then the friendship got complicated.

Trump ran for U.S. President in 2016 and won. Brady, then the New England Patriots quarterback, pretty much stopped discussing his friend in public, hoping to avoid controversy. Trump continues to bring up Brady, however.

Brady had perhaps the most expansive interview of his career on Wednesday, spending hours on The Howard Stern Show discussing a number of topics. Stern is renowned for his skills as an interviewer and he got Brady discussing Trump, something he has been reluctant to talk about for years.

It became a big deal when reporters noticed a Make America Great Again hat in Bradys locker after Trump was running for office. That and Bradys well-known friendship with Trump led to an awkward spot in which Brady was being asked political questions he clearly didnt want to answer.

Stern had a friendship with Trump too. Trump was a frequent guest on Sterns show, and Stern said Trump came to his wedding. Stern related to Brady that way.

I dont know where youre at politically, but it was weird because there was a time when Donald called me up and said, I want you to speak at the Republican convention, Stern recalled. And Donald can be very forceful. It was weird, I was actually a Hillary Clinton supporter, I was really into her. It was awkward for me because he was asking me to do that and I had to say no to him, and its not an easy thing to do somebody who has been kind to you. Did you get asked the same thing? I imagine he wanted you to endorse him.

Yeah, Brady said. Well, he wanted me to speak at that convention too, and I wasnt going to do anything political.

Brady said he met Trump in 2001 and the friendship evolved as Bradys football career took off.

He would call me after games, I watched your game Tom, lets play golf together, Brady told Stern. So 2003, 2004, thats kind of the way it was. He would come up to our games and stand on the sideline and cheer for the Patriots. He had a way of connecting with people, and still does. But the whole political aspect came, and I got brought into a lot of those things because it was so polarizing around the election time. It was uncomfortable to me. You cant undo things not that I would undo a friendship but the political support is totally different than the support of a friend.

Brady said he felt getting involved in the political realm could have affected his job of being the quarterback to teammates who might not have been voting for Trump.

Tom Brady chats with Donald Trump at a 2005 boxing match. (Photo by Donna Connor/WireImage)

Brady explained how he felt uncomfortable juggling his friendship with Trump and the sudden political implications involved with that.

I didnt want to support, I didnt want to get into all the political ... theres zero win in anything in regards to that. Its politics, Brady told Stern. The whole political realm right now ... Im a person, from my standpoint, to embrace leadership. I got brought together in a locker room where I was trying to get along with everybody. In an outward sense, when you start talking about politics is about how you do you not bring people together, which is the opposite of what politics should have always been in our country.

From my profession, leadership and responsibility is about embracing the whole and trying to bring people together to lead them to a common goal. Now, theres a lot of different agendas and goals.

Brady said there was never a rift in the locker room over his Trump friendship,

Did teammates ever get pissed off at you for your relationship? Stern asked.

No, no, never, Brady said. They know me. They know who I am. I was with them every day.

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Stern switched topics, bringing up Trumps previous desire to have Brady date his daughter Ivanka. Brady had a round of awkward laughter over the question.

That was a long time ago, Brady said. That was a long time ago in my life.

Brady said Trump never told him he wanted him to date his daughter, but Stern said Trump had said that on his show before.

There was never that where we dated or anything like that, Brady said.

Then Brady, who is married to supermodel Gisele Bndchen, relied on one of his best media skills, which is deflecting during an awkward question.

It all worked out for me anyway, Brady said. I married the woman of my dreams.

Tom Brady and Donald Trump playing golf in January of 2006. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON Reprising the skeptical tone he has applied to the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, President Trump accused the World Health Organization of helping China conceal the number of its citizens that have been infected by the coronavirus.

I do believe they knew, the president said at Fridays briefing of the coronavirus task force, suggesting that the WHO was aware that China was not being truthful about the scope of COVID-19 infections. But they didnt want to tell the world. And were gonna get to the bottom of it.

Trump did not provide evidence to support his assertion, but he made clear that the international public health organization would remain a primary target in the coming days. We're going to talk about the WHO next week in great detail. I didn't want to do it today, Good Friday. I didn't want to do it before Easter, and also didn't want to do it before we have all the facts, he said.

Fridays comments came during a week in which Trump has repeatedly blamed the WHO for improperly handling the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, he said that the WHO was very biased toward China.

Trump has said he wants to put a hold on U.S. funding to the WHO, although when or how he intends to do so remains unclear (funding is appropriated by Congress). The United States contributed $893 million to the WHO for its current two-year funding period, while Chinas latest contribution was $86 million.

Were paying them more than 10 times more than China, the president said. And they are very, very China-centric.

The source of Trumps irritation appears to be that the WHO did not endorse his restriction on travel from China to the United States, which he implemented on Jan. 31. Four days before that, a WHO guidance advised against unnecessary restrictions of international traffic.

More broadly, the president appears to be annoyed that the WHO has generally praised Chinas response to the pandemic, which originated within its borders, in the southeastern city of Wuhan. Praise for China has indeed been fulsome from WHO officials. Dr. Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist who led the WHO team in China, told Yahoo News that if he were to get infected by the coronavirus, he would seek treatment in China.

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They know how to keep people alive, he said.

Aylward added, however, that Chinese epidemiologists learned much of what they know from American counterparts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Praise for China has irked some in the United States, Trumps allies in particular. They believe that Trump has been unfairly maligned while China has been unfairly celebrated. Instead of acting in the best interest of our global health, the WHO has served as a propaganda arm for the Chinese government, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., wrote on Twitter earlier this week. She said she supported a funding freeze.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has also criticized the WHO for what he perceives as its overly solicitous attitude towards China.

Earlier this week, Trump also charged that the WHO minimized the threat very strongly. That appears to be a reference to a Jan. 14 tweet from the WHO that declared that Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission. That would prove an incorrect assertion. Trump has also made false assertions about the coronavirus, including that it would vanish of its own accord.

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The coronavirus pandemic has put production on the next season of The Bachelorette on hold, while ABC has scrapped plans for its Bachelor Summer Games spinoff. But fans in need of a Bachelor Nation fix while they quarantine need look no further than their favorite online bookstore, where theyll find a brand-spanking-new memoir courtesy of Colton Underwood.

Published on March 31, The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV unravels the former Bachelors personal history and complicated experience on the dating show. which notoriously played up his status as a then-26-year-old virgin. (Incidentally, Underwood, who is still dating final rose recipient Cassie Randolph, is more tight-lipped about his status these days.)

Speaking to Yahoo Entertainment from Randolphs family home in California where the couple is isolating following Underwoods bout of COVID-19, from which he has since recovered the former reality star addressed some of his books biggest revelations, including his frustrations with producers he felt sometimes crossed the line while filming Season 23 of The Bachelor.

Colton Underwood (pictured with girlfriend Cassie Randolph) spills behind-the-scenes details about his experience on The Bachelor in his new memoir. (Photo: John Fleenor via Getty Images)

I tried to stay really professional with it because theres sort of this fine line, Underwood shared. I understand its showbusiness, I understand what I signed up for, but its still also my personal life. They have another season, another Bachelor to move onto, and I have my life and my decisions that I make on the show carry on into my real life.

Im so appreciative of the franchise and Im very grateful for their opportunities, but of course theres some things we disagreed on, theres some frustrations on my behalf, and Im sure there were things I could have done better for them as well, so Im not downplaying that at all. But when it came to my relationship, I didnt want them to get in the way, and I felt at times there were some certain things that happened that just sort of crossed the line in my opinion.

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That said, Underwood underscored that his book isnt about trashing the franchise, but rather an opportunity to describe his constant struggle with finding love within the constraints of a hugely popular TV show.

But neither Underwood nor Randolph who abruptly left the show in Week 9 after expressing doubts about getting engaged, prompting her beaus infamous fence-jumping moment conformed to the standard Bachelor formula, which caused some friction.

I dont know exactly what their game plan was, I dont know exactly what they wanted out of it, said Underwood, who has written that producers appeared to discourage his romance with Randolph. There was a part of me that maybe thought they just wanted an engagement, and they wanted me to go with somebody who was going to be ready for that, and I dont think they thought Cassie was ready at the time. But that wasnt for them to decide. I signed up for the show to find somebody who I could spend the rest of my life with, and if Cassie wasnt ready for the show, to say yes at the end of the show, but shes going to be ready in a year from now, then Im willing to put in the work, Im willing to be patient, Im willing to compromise [on] what I went into the show expecting at the end. I can change thats allowed, for people to change what they want.

Underwood says that Bachelor producers meddled in his relationship with Randolph on the show. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)

Despite his frustrations, Underwood added that has no hard feelings for his former Bachelor producers, saying theres a mutual respect. But he felt that showrunner interference could be responsible for sabotaging some of the on-screen romances. (Though Underwood didnt name them, neither the last Bachelor, Peter Weber, or the last Bachelorette, Hannah Brown, ended up with their final picks.)

Theyre very good at their job, they know what theyre doing and they have a hit show, he said. Im not here to bash or say anything poorly about them, but theres also a point where I just want to stand up and say, Hey, you guys need to get back to what makes the show so special, and what people love about this show, and thats love.

You look back at the last few Bachelorettes and Bachelors, and they didnt end with love, and you have to sort of ask yourself, why is that? I havent watched those two [seasons] but Ive seen through social media, and even just talking to people, the frustration of [things behind the scenes] that maybe lead to ... not having that fairy-tale ending that theyre used to. I dont know, I just hope that Claire [Crawley, the next Bachelorette] comes out of it very happy at the end of her season.

Underwood admitted that he didnt regret being so open about his virginity during his time on the show, saying, Do I wish that maybe they could have handled it a little different? Of course, [and] I could have handled certain situations different as well. He also laughed as he revealed how his grandma called him up after she read in The First Time about how hed use fake yawns to signal to producers that he had a boner during a hot-and-heavy moment.

And more than a year into his relationship with Randolph, Underwood shared that things are going great.

Obviously were like any other couple, he said. At times it gets hard relationships are hard, and on certain days you have to work harder on that relationship than on others but overall its been a good experience, and weve been very open and honest with each other about expectations, what we want out of the relationship. Weve been supportive of each other, and I cant say enough good things about her.

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By Nick Brown

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam remembers the moment he realized he could no longer smile at patients. He was helping a nervous man suffering from COVID-19 at the New York City hospital where he works as a nurse. The patient cracked a joke, and Sam laughed. Then he felt air in his eye.

It was a bleak moment, he said.

The smile had lifted Sams N95 respirator mask off his face, creating an air leak. With COVID-19, the deadly respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, transmittable through the air, thats a risk.

A big smile helps things feel less scary, said Sam, who was not authorized to speak to the media and asked that his last name not be used. Not having that, in a time when my patients are scared shitless, is challenging.

Already battling overcrowded hospitals and equipment shortages, healthcare workers on the front lines of New York's coronavirus outbreak say the highly contagious virus has hampered their ability to comfort patients fighting to stay alive.

COVID-19 has infected more than 161,000 people in New York and killed 7,000.

One of nurse Peggy Desiderio's elderly coronavirus patients at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan calls her into her room every time she walks by. But Desiderio doesnt have much to give.

I have to say wait a minute, then put on my PPE, says Desiderio, referring to personal protective equipment like masks, gloves and gowns. Then I feel guilty because I need to rush her. She really needs company, a human voice.

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When one coronavirus patient wandered from her room in search of a nurse, Sam said, Normally wed politely redirect her. Now its more like screaming: Get back in the fucking room.

A good bedside manner is crucial for Dr. Sonika Randev, 35, a physical medicine and rehabilitation resident at Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan.

Randev provides palliative care to terminal COVID-19 patients and assesses the physical and mental capacity of elderly patients who may have recovered enough to leave the hospital. "Our responsibility is to comfort them," she said.

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Through tears, Randev recalled trying to tell an elderly patient with early signs of dementia, through layers of PPE, that he could not yet go home to his family. You want to smile, you want to hold their hand, she said.

Occasionally, frail COVID-19 patients fall out of bed, said Emily Muzyka, a nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Normally, nurses would rush to help, but now, Muzyka says, they must pause to first put on gowns, masks and gloves.

Muzyka has held patients hands through final breaths in the past, but things have changed.

If I have to do that now, she said, it will be through gloves.

A lack of warmth from doctors can make an already stressful hospital visit harder to bear, said Jacqueline Sperling, a psychologist and instructor at Harvard Medical School, saying that doctors looking to make patients experiences a little smoother can try to smile with their eyes.

One can sometimes determine the emotion someone is communicating just by seeing the eyes, Sperling said. "Practice in front of a mirror at home. See what that looks like, remember through muscle memory.

Some doctors are finding other ways to create bonds.

Randev is planning to show patients photos of herself on her phone, or via printouts, so they can see what she looks like unmasked, hoping it will make patients feel a little safer.

To be able to say, Hi, my name is Sonika, and this is me, she said. This is what I look like. I know its scary.

(Reporting by Nick Brown; editing by Ross Colvin and Leslie Adler)

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Flags fly at full staff outside the NYSE on 9 April 2020 in New York City

US stocks have just recorded their biggest weekly gain since 1974 despite the bleak economic outlook.

Wall Street's S&P 500 shares index has risen 12% this week, as the US central bank announced more stimulus measures to support the economy.

Financial markets have experienced extreme volatility as the economic impact from the coronavirus worsens.

Gold prices hit a seven-year high with many investors still remaining cautious about the future of the global economy.

"It looks like the Fed are on a mission to blow holes in every dam that stops the flow of credit. And it sure sounds like they have plenty more dynamite if needed," said Stephen Innes, global chief market strategist at Axicorp.

"Markets have been encouraged by corona curves flattening in Europe, exits from lockdowns in China, and talk of economic reopening globally. The level optimism has caught virtually everyone by surprise."

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve said an additional $2.3 trillion was available to support debt markets saying it would act "forcefully, pro-actively, and aggressively" to combat an economic tidal wave.

The strong words came after data showed US jobless claims jumped by 6.6 million, taking the three-week total to more than 16 million unemployed and seeking benefits.

The Fed's chairman Jerome Powell emphasised the central bank's measures were temporary, but that there was "no limit" to the dollar amounts it can deploy for programmes already on the books.

Markets were also lifted by comments from Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who said there may end up being fewer fatalities from the coronavirus than earlier forecast.

He placed the number at around 60,000 Americans, compared to earlier estimates of up to 240,000 deaths.

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