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Nearly one in five Americans are in collections for medical debt
Jul 25, 2021 04:38As COVID sweeps across America with a fourth wave, this time hitting the red states and counties hardest, medical bankruptcies are starting to explode.
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US sees steepest single-year decline in life expectancy since World War II
Jul 25, 2021 04:32The coronavirus pandemic cut US life expectancy by a year and a half in 2020, down to 77.3 years, according to CDC data released recently. The huge drop was also driven by increased deaths from overdoses, murders, diabetes, and alcohol-related liver disease.
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Sage adviser claims ministers trying to get as many as possible infected with COVID
Jul 24, 2021 04:31A scientist advising the British government has accused ministers of allowing infections to rip through the younger population in an effort to bolster levels of immunity before the NHS faces winter pressures.
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Republican governor says ‘time to start blaming unvaccinated’ for rise in cases
Jul 24, 2021 04:14More than 600,000 people in the US have died so far due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst death toll in the world, and Republican strategists have warned that the party may be blamed by its voters if this total keeps climbing with further COVID outbreaks.
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Trump says Americans 'refusing to take the vaccine' due to mistrust of Biden administration
Jul 23, 2021 15:37Former President Donald Trump has recently issued a statement saying that Americans are "refusing" to take the coronavirus vaccine due to mistrust of the Biden administration, the media and the 2020 presidential election results.
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Oxfam slams Bezos space trip as billions suffer on earth
Jul 23, 2021 15:27In response to Jeff Bezos' space flight, Deepak Xavier, Oxfam International's Global Head of Inequality Campaign, said: “We've now reached stratospheric inequality. Billionaires burning into space, away from a world of pandemic, climate change and starvation. 11 people are likely now dying of hunger each minute while Bezos prepares for an 11-minute personal space flight. This is human folly, not human achievement.”
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Neither corona is permanent nor occupiers of Islamic sites
Jul 22, 2021 09:51Neither COVID-19 is a permanent pandemic nor does the rule of the Saudi Wahhabi have any permanency. Without the dangers of any epidemic disease and without the humility of obtaining a Saudi visa, the Hajj will retain its Abrahamic and Muhammadan spirit to unite Muslims on the common platform of monotheism.
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UK Covid cases could hit 200,000 a day, says scientist behind lockdown strategy
Jul 20, 2021 14:31Coronavirus infections in the UK are surging again and hospitalisations are on the rise, driven by the spread of the Delta variant and the partial lifting of restrictions. COVID cases could hit 200,000 a day in the UK this year and cause “major disruption” to the NHS, according to the scientist whose initial modelling helped shape Britain’s coronavirus lockdown strategy.
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US surgeon general says COVID misinformation ‘spreading like wildfire’ on social media
Jul 20, 2021 04:38Vivek Murthy, the US Surgeon General who has accused companies including Facebook of “poisoning information” about coronavirus vaccines, said they were not doing enough to check the online proliferation of false claims.
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Boris Johnson gave two reasons for lifting all restrictions. Both are wrong
Jul 16, 2021 15:24The UK government has announced a removal of all public health measures, meaning that population immunity has to do all the work. With millions of people still without the protection of full vaccination or previous infection, it is inevitable that a good chunk of that immunity will come from new infection rather than vaccination.