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US coronavirus death toll passes 400,000 amid grim forecast over winter
More than 400,000 Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, a horrific marker of the misery the virus has spread across the country, as the rate of deaths from Covid-19 increases. The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reported ...[Read more]
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The Future of the Coronavirus? An Annoying Childhood Infection
Once immunity is widespread in adults, the virus rampaging across the world will come to resemble the common cold, scientists predict. ...[Read more]
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Coronavirus news: WHO warns no herd immunity in 2021; Moderna says vaccine immunity lasts a year
- Portugal’s president tests positive; Lebanon tightens restrictions as infections skyrocket; ‘Reckless’ Christmas rule relaxation blamed for Ireland surge. - Immunity from Moderna Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine should last at least a year, the company sa ...[Read more]
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Los Angeles telling ambulance drivers ‘not to transport’ patients likely to die as pandemic worsens
With an even more contagious strain of COVID-19 spreading rapidly, the U.K. has announced a third round of lockdowns that involve some of the strictest measures taken so far. The national lockdown and stay-at-home order has tight restrictions on who is al ...[Read more]
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New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free
At midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system. Under new rules, social distancing is not required and there are no limits on public gatherings, but borders remain closed to foreigners. Ne ...[Read more]
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Worse Than Being in Iraq – Veteran & ER Doctor Says Pandemic Is Pushing Hospitals to Breaking Point
As the U.S. averages more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, we speak with Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency physician who has been treating patients since the beginning of the U.S. outbreak, first in New York City and now in Yuma, Arizona. Dr. Gilma ...[Read more]
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Thank Socialism for the Vaccine. Blame Capitalism for Its Distribution.
The jaw-dropping speed of COVID-19 vaccine development is a glorious marvel of science, cooperation, and economic planning — a glimpse of how much more an egalitarian world could produce and achieve. But the lifeboat ethics of vaccine rollout is a horri ...[Read more]
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Americans are Broke and Hungry, as Politicians Have Sat on Their Hands
Covid-19 not only killed over 300,000 Americans, it also bankrupted millions. When it first attacked, congress and the white house rushed billions to rich corporations, while the Fed turned on the money spigot to keep the stock market afloat. But this lar ...[Read more]
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Venezuela Receives Chinese Medical Supplies To Fight COVID-19
After pointing out that it was the ninth shipment sent by Chinese authorities, she recalled that over 274 tons of equipment, medical inputs, and medicines have been received so far this year. Rodriguez also mentioned that Venezuela is nowadays a victim of ...[Read more]
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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and inequalities in our societies. That said, the treatment of the dis ...[Read more]
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Coronavirus ‘may have been quietly spreading long before pandemic’
Researchers from the United States, Britain and Australia looked at piles of data released by scientists around the world for clues about the virus’ evolutionary past, and found it might have made the jump from animal to humans long before the first det ...[Read more]
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