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Warning world is on 'brink of a catastrophic moral failure,' WHO chief denounces vaccine-hoarding by rich nations
Jan 21, 2021 17:32World Health Organization has criticized wealthy countries and pharmaceutical companies for pursuing their own coronavirus vaccine arrangements, even though such a nationalistic and competitive approach to inoculation threatens to magnify deadly global inequalities while prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic crisis.
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Pandemic's robot 'heroes' highlight their value at tech show
Jan 17, 2021 10:21Robots that helped people survive and stay safe over the past year are touting their value at the tech industry's annual extravaganza amid a pandemic which has given fresh momentum to the robotics sector. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is being held online this year due to the global crisis, includes robots that have become "heroes" for many during the coronavirus pandemic.
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A new COVID strain is 70 percent more transmissible and already widespread in US
Jan 15, 2021 16:41For several months, scientists have been aware of multiple strains of the novel coronavirus circulating in the United States. Yet one specific mutation, called B117, is alarming epidemiologists because of how much more transmissible rate.
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As spending climbs and revenue falls, coronavirus forces a global reckoning
Jan 14, 2021 06:13Around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic is racking up a mind-blowing bill: Trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue, ramped-up spending and new borrowing set to burden the next generation with record levels of debt. In the direst cases – low- and middle-income countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America, that are already saddled with backbreaking debt – covering the rising costs is transforming into a high-stakes test of national solvency.
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Are soaring markets and house prices an 'epic bubble' about to pop?
Jan 13, 2021 06:43Despite a purported satisfactory performance last week, shares in London still have some way to go before they reach their pre-crisis level. Here, the asset class that has defied the depressed state of the economy and the health emergency is residential property.
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New COVID variant found in South Africa raises concerns over impacts on vaccine
Jan 12, 2021 16:13Variant 501Y.V2 is believed to be behind a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. Researchers first identified the variant in October 2020 in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.
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“Last responders” are bracing for a surge in COVID deaths across US
Jan 09, 2021 04:44As covid-19 has spread from big cities to rural communities, it has stressed not only hospitals, but also what some euphemistically call “last responders.”
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Citing the pandemic, CBP has expelled newborn U.S. citizens with their migrant mothers
Jan 08, 2021 07:01U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used a controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order authorizing the expulsion of asylum-seekers on supposed public health grounds to send multiple U.S.-born infants — who are by law U.S. citizens — and their migrant families across the southern border to Mexico.
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Health care to the Electoral College: Seven ways 2020 left America exposed
Jan 07, 2021 17:35Black and Latino Americans account for almost 40 percent of coronavirus deaths so far, despite comprising less than a quarter of the population. As they’ve borne the brunt of this pandemic, they’ve been forced to fight for their humanity in another regard: Taking to the streets to protest decades of unjust police killings, only to be met with more police violence.
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This must be undone: Trump EPA finalizes anti-science rule to limit use of public health research
Jan 07, 2021 17:35Trump's nightmarish giveaway to polluters will sicken millions of the most vulnerable people across the US.