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As economic suffering grips regular Americans, Wall Street behemoths ready feast of stock buybacks
Jan 28, 2021 06:57For millions of regular Americans, the end of 2020 was marked by economic distress, with millions suffering pandemic-triggered job losses—and thus the loss of their employer-tied health insurance—still waiting on robust economic relief from federal lawmakers, and facing a weak social safety net.
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Fast-spreading COVID variant can elude immune responses
Jan 28, 2021 02:43Evidence is growing that some coronavirus variants could evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and previous infections. Researchers are trying to make sense of a tsunami of lab studies released this week that raise concerns about some emerging variants and mutations.
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Spain’s virus surge hits mental health of frontline workers
Jan 28, 2021 02:36A study released recently by Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar looking at the impact of the spring’s COVID-19 surge on more than 9,000 health workers across Spain found that at least 28% suffered major depression. Dr. Jordi Alonso, one of the chief researchers said that is six times higher than the rate in the general population before the pandemic.
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Fauci says he was the 'skunk at the picnic' in Trump's COVID team
Jan 27, 2021 16:53Dr Anthony Fauci was the “skunk at the picnic” in Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus taskforce, the top US public health expert told the New York Times in a candid interview on Sunday (24 Jan 2021).
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How coronavirus has totally transformed society in America
Jan 27, 2021 16:34The true, lasting effects of the coronavirus will stay with Americans for generations, even beyond the grisly death toll or economic effects.
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What new COVID variants mean for schools is not yet clear
Jan 26, 2021 20:54The emergence of fast-spreading coronavirus variants has once again put a spotlight on the role of children in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Experts warn US civil rights fallout from COVID could be far worse than the pandemic itself
Jan 26, 2021 20:51As US President Biden signs a national mask mandate into law, measures being imposed in the name of protecting public health could create a humanitarian crisis that sees Americans sued by the state and forced into detention camps for breaking pandemic protocols
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A year after Wuhan lockdown, a world still deep in crisis
Jan 26, 2021 05:56The anniversary of the coronavirus lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Saturday Jan. 23, comes as more contagious variants of the coronavirus spread and efforts to vaccinate people against COVID-19 have been frustrated by disarray and limited supplies in some places. The scourge has killed over two million people worldwide.
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COVID’s toll on smell and taste: What scientists do and don’t know
Jan 21, 2021 17:38Researchers are studying the sensory impact of the coronavirus, how long it lasts and what can be done to treat it.
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Almost 30% of COVID patients in England readmitted to hospital after discharge – study
Jan 21, 2021 17:36Nearly a third of people who were discharged from hospitals in England after being treated for Covid-19 were readmitted within five months – and almost one in eight died, a study suggests.