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welcome to the good news ride home for thursday June 4th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Confirmed case numbers continue to rise around the world as places that were previously spared are now the sites of major outbreaks.

How do libraries disinfect books?

Isaac Newton's little-known cure for the plague.

New synthetic red blood cells that can act as a mechanism for therapeutic drug delivery.

And Big Bird's upcoming CNN Town Hall.

While it may seem like the threat of coronavirus is decreasing for those of us who live in places that were hit earlier on, the number of cases worldwide are actually rising,

faster than ever, with over 100,000 confirmed cases reported each day. Quoting the New York Times, twice as many

countries have reported a rise in new cases over the past two weeks as have reported declines,

according to a New York Times database. On May 30th, more new cases were reported in a single day

worldwide than ever before, 134,064. The increase has been

driven by emerging hotspots in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Overall, there have

been more than 6.3 million reported cases worldwide and more than 380,000 known deaths.

More than a quarter of all known deaths have been in the United States,

but the geography of the pandemic is changing quickly, end quote.

The death toll in Brazil has passed 30,000 with cases surpassing half a million,

despite that businesses have begun reopening in major cities, including

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