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'A heinous crime': Israeli regime’s airstrikes damage Gaza's only coronavirus testing lab
May 21, 2021 04:59It was bad enough when Palestinians in Gaza weren't able to get vaccinated, but now to reportedly lose their only coronavirus testing lab is... beyond words.
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Why is COVID killing so many young children in Brazil? Doctors are baffled
May 20, 2021 03:58COVID-19 is ravaging Brazil, and, in a disturbing new wrinkle that experts are working to understand, it appears to be killing babies and small children at an unusually high rate.
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UK ‘faces labour shortages’ as COVID and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers
May 18, 2021 15:03Britain’s employers are struggling to hire staff as lockdown lifts amid an exodus of overseas workers caused by the COVID pandemic and Brexit, industry figures reveal.
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Malaysia locks down to preempt India-like crisis
May 13, 2021 10:59Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announces third nationwide lockdown as coronavirus cases soar, health system buckles and new variants take lethal hold.
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After hoarding, West bickers on sharing patents as virus kills in droves
May 13, 2021 10:56South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Support for new malaria vaccine may be lacking in rich world
May 13, 2021 10:47The first efforts to eradicate malaria began in the 1950s under the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (one that decided to leave sub-Saharan Africa out of the “global” campaign), making use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine and spraying large areas with the insecticide DDT.
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The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world
May 13, 2021 04:50Wastewater tracking was used before the pandemic to monitor for polio and illicit drug use, but interest in the field and its applications has now ballooned
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US fiscal profligacy and the impending crisis
May 12, 2021 12:02It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Joe Biden administration’s fiscal irresponsibility arises from a cynical political calculation. It evidently proposes to employ the federal budget as a slush fund to distribute benefits to various political constituencies, gambling that the avalanche of new debt will not cause a financial crisis before the 2022 Congressional elections.
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COVID-19 takes a dire global demographic toll
May 12, 2021 00:36Pandemic deaths, disruptions to fertility and restrictions on migration are causing major social and demographic transformations worldwide.
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India’s double viral mutation cause for global concern
May 09, 2021 08:23Across the world, several key mutant strains have emerged thanks to ongoing coronavirus replication in humans. Both ability to replicate and transmit, and a better ability to escape our immune systems, led to the variants establishing themselves as dominant strains across geographies and populations.