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Record 420,000 children a month in England treated for mental health problems
May 24, 2022 04:09Experts say COVID-19 has seriously exacerbated problems such as anxiety, depression and self-harm among school-age children in England and that the “relentless and unsustainable” ongoing rise in their need for help could overwhelm NHS services.
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Boris Johnson to sacrifice top official over Partygate to save himself
May 24, 2022 00:35UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under pressure on Saturday May 21 to explain a recent meeting he held with the senior mandarin Sue Gray. It has led to claims that No 10 had tried to interfere and water down her findings about the Partygate during the coronavirus lockdown.
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Capitalism is to blame for how quickly US COVID deaths reached 1 million
May 20, 2022 03:01With solemn tone and a truly daunting dot-matrix map of the lost, The New York Times put forth the question that nobody seems prepared to deal with at this juncture: How did this country suffer 1 million COVID deaths, the most of any country in the world, in less than three years?
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US COVID deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
May 18, 2022 13:57Virus has laid bare America’s fragmented healthcare system and corrosive racial and socioeconomic inequality.
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100 million new COVID infections could be just months away
May 12, 2022 13:27Mask mandates are being lifted in many countries. Testing and surveillance have decreased and travelling is recommencing widely. People are understandably exhausted and want to forget about the pandemic. This would be a grave mistake.
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As US marks 1 million COVID deaths, Biden has dropped most pandemic protections
May 11, 2022 12:20According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 has become the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer. Amid all of this pain, President Joe Biden has dropped most pandemic restrictions, stopped most national tracking, and failed to act on even the most basic federal actions to reign this pandemic in.
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UK local elections: How London turned from blue to red
May 11, 2022 08:49Even the wealthiest enclaves of the British capital turned against the Tories recently. What has made the city a Labour redoubt – and is its dominance more of a menace than a boon?
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UK local election results were messy. Now Boris Johnson’s future is on the line
May 09, 2022 07:44A heartland slump and hundreds of seat losses in UK's local elections will put new pressure on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but his opponent, Keir Starmer, may also face criticism after failing to deliver a knockout.
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Boris Johnson’s defence on COVID risk to care homes hit by new revelation
May 04, 2022 09:02UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that a lack of knowledge about the asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 put care homes at risk has been further undermined after it emerged he openly discussed the potential scale of symptom-free transmission.
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The dire consequences of the US neglecting the ongoing pandemic
May 02, 2022 10:50Someone in the United States dies of this largely preventable disease about every four minutes—equivalent to a deadly disaster on the scale of the 9/11 attacks every eight or nine days.