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Early Addition: One Third Of American Beer Consumers Won't Drink Corona Because Of Coronavirus
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Published Feb 28, 2020
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- This elaborate data visualization shows in great detail how Coronavirus exploded in South Korea.
- The billionaire Sackler family, widely reviled for their role in profiting off of opioids, received guidance from Mike Bloomberg on how to manage all the negative media coverage.
- A juror in the Harvey Weinstein trial who talked to the press has received so many threats from online trolls calling her a "snitch" that her sister says she has gone into hiding.
- Female mohels are in high demand as more Jewish women get into ritual circumcision.
- The man in charge of the coronavirus response in America, Vice President Mike Pence, is traveling to Florida today for a $25,000-a-plate fundraiser.
- NYCHA tenants are filing a class-action lawsuit against the housing authority, alleging deplorable living conditions arising from years of neglect.
- Watch a team of vets pull an entire beach towel out of a python's mouth in Australia.
- A new survey from a P.R. firm found 38 percent of regular beer drinkers in the U.S. wouldn’t buy Corona because of the OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY UNRELATED Coronavirus.
- And finally, check out this baller fish tank.
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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