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Amid the pandemic, tributes were colored by coronavirus precautions and the devastating losses from the health crisis.

Universities across the country have reported growing Covid-19 cases in fraternity houses, threatening their surrounding communities and plans to bring students back to campus.

"We had to assume it was spreading everywhere because we had no testing. That's going to be looked back at as the key missing element here," the former FDA chief told CNBC on Friday.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said the company will push back on a planned change to Apple's iPhone operating system that would impact how advertisers track users. But, he said, "I don't think we have much influence over Apple."

Mortgage rates just set another new low, according to Freddie Mac, and that means the number of borrowers who could benefit from a refinance hit a new all-time high. 

U.S. government debt prices were higher Friday morning as investors monitored an array of economic data, along with the Senate blockage of a slimmed-down coronavirus relief bill and further volatility in equity markets.

As Covid-19 continues to disrupt educational plans, parents increasingly are unsatisfied with the schooling their children receive.

The company is also launching a prompt at the top of users' News Feeds to encourage people to sign up to work the polls. 

Instagram last month launched Reels in an effort to compete with TikTok. The move came at a particularly vulnerable time for TikTok, which is at risk of being banned in the U.S. over national security concerns. 

Software and online retail are particularly resilient when it comes to weakness in the broader technology space, exchange-traded fund analysts say.

People who tested positive for Covid-19 were more than twice as likely to report eating or drinking at a bar or restaurant in the past two weeks.

Even if employees have demonstrated an ability to do their jobs from home, the company expects them to report to the office to foster creativity and innovation under its phased-in return-to-work plan.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Peloton, Oracle, Chewy, eBay, and more.

78 Stanford Medicine academics and doctors signed a letter to warn the public about controversial views shared by Dr. Scott Atlas, an advisor to President Trump on the pandemic.

WHO Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said Thursday there's no need to be "overly discouraged" by the news, adding that "these things happen." 

"This is stuff that everyone knew. There's a report that I have here someplace where China said it was airborne earlier than the statements I made. People knew it was airborne. This was nothing," Trump said Thursday.

P-TECH, an IBM-created program that brings training and job opportunities to high school students from communities with high concentrations of poverty, is expanding.

"It's much safer for students to live on campus," President Donald Trump said during a press briefing at the White House.

Senate Republicans attempted to pass a more narrow coronavirus stimulus bill, but Democrats blocked the plan.

"Diversity of thinking is often reflected by the diversity of the people, and so you need diverse people in the organization. It's absolutely a business imperative," Carnival CEO Arnold Donald told CNBC.