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Not surprisingly, COVID-19 remains a dominant theme across industry categories, impacting everything from DIY home improvement trends to food gifting and more.

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID-19, has now become a pandemic, leaving all healthcare institutions and government officials baffled, and researchers and scientists on high alert.

There’s no question the economic fallout from COVID-19 has been severe, and the impact continues to mount across the world. Daily news headlines are full of tragic stories and dire predictions, but are there any relative bright spots in the market during this gloomy period?

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Wireless transfer of power or electrical charging of battery-powered equipment and devices without the requirement of wired electric connection is termed wireless charging. It is often referred to as inductive charging, in which power is transferred wirelessly through electromagnetic induction. 

This $117 billion U.S. business, which encompasses basic janitorial services, pest control, and other building maintenance, is huge but very competitive, comprised of mainly small operators, including 36,000 franchised outlets. Competitors run the gamut, from sole proprietors to giants such as ABM Industries with $6.5 billion in revenues. This is a low-investment business that’s easy to enter, and many do.

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“Had [the US] done more testing from the very beginning and caught cases earlier,” said Dr. Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins, “we would be in a far different place.”