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The Smithfield pork plant, located in a Republican-led state that is one of five in the US that has not issued any kind of shelter-in-place order, has become a microcosm illustrating the socioeconomic disparities laid bare by the global pandemic. While ma ...[Read more]
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Whenever you start to think that the federal government under Donald Trump has hit a moral bottom, it finds a new way to shock and horrify.
Over the last few weeks, it has started to appear as though, in addition to abandoning the states to their own devi ...[Read more]
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An unprecedented number of people are losing their jobs in the United States right now. Because of the employer-dependent health care labyrinth we have set up, that means an unprecedented number are also losing their health insurance. The new group of uni ...[Read more]
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker is planning to obtain millions of masks and gloves from China and bring those supplies back to Illinois on charter jets — but he’s keeping the details secret out of fear the Trump administration might seize the cargo for the federal ...[Read more]
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The number of people who have died in the US due to Covid-19 climbed to over 40,000 on Sunday, according to calculations by Reuters.
The American death toll is the highest in the world and is almost two times larger than the figures from Italy, which is ...[Read more]
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White House was reportedly not interested in the intel, but it was passed onto NATO, IDF; when it reached Israel's Health Ministry, 'nothing was done'
US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israe ...[Read more]
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Housing advocates are organizing a massive rent strike May 1 to pressure New York lawmakers to cancel rents during the COVID-19 shutdown.
Donnette Leftord, a Flatbush mom of three and an undocumented New Yorker, wouldn't pay her $1,700 month rent next mon ...[Read more]
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Joe Biden on Friday stumbled through an interview on his proposed response to the coronavirus pandemic.Following a long and disjointed introduction, Biden appeared to suggest policy proposals similar to those Franklin D. Roosevelt employed to coordinate m ...[Read more]
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A study out of Stanford University tested California residents and found that the Covid-19 infection rate is likely far higher than has been reported, but the virus could also be less deadly than commonly believed.
Researchers used 3,300 residents in Sant ...[Read more]
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The health threat facing fruit and vegetable pickers flown in from quarantined Romania underlines Europe’s inequalities, say Costi Rogozanu and Daniela Gabor.
Many farm owners seem happier in any case to have rapid access to the “easterners”. In the ...[Read more]
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The proportion of people dying of coronavirus who do not have underlying conditions has risen in recent weeks, from below 1% to about 5% of the total, Guardian analysis has found.
The analysis, based on daily statements released by NHS England from 5 Mar ...[Read more]
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