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The US COVID-19 outbreak is worse than it’s ever been
Dec 06, 2020 16:59Nothing about the current COVID-19 explosion should come as a surprise. As the virus spread throughout summer and fall, experts repeatedly warned winter would be worse.
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268,000 Americans died and Scott Atlas shrugged: Trump's "most dangerous" COVID adviser quits
Dec 06, 2020 16:48Atlas had no prior experience in public health but grabbed Trump's attention during his flame-throwing appearances on Fox News and joined the Trump administration as an adviser in August.
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87 million Americans could lose paid leave without urgent action from Congress
Dec 06, 2020 06:12Without legislative action from a divided lame-duck Congress before the end of the year, nearly 90 million public and private-sector workers in the U.S. could soon lose federal paid sick and family leave benefits that have helped prevent tens of thousands of coronavirus infections.
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Endangered primates face high risk of catching COVID-19
Dec 05, 2020 06:28As the coronavirus pandemic rages across the globe, much of the focus centers on the growing human death toll, which has climbed above one million. But experts caution that a handful of our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom are also in jeopardy from SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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The virus won’t stop evolving when the vaccine arrives
Dec 04, 2020 06:03The coronavirus is not a shape shifter like the flu virus, but it could become vaccine resistant over time. That prompts researchers to urge vigilance.
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US hospitals brace for COVID-19 surge
Dec 03, 2020 16:32US Hospitals are facing rising pressure from a surge of coronavirus cases that is threatening to overwhelm their capacity, as the country braces for further escalation following Thanksgiving.
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Mnuchin violates CARES act with plan to move $455 billion in unspent COVID funds
Dec 03, 2020 11:52Bloomberg reported that the funds, which the US Congress allocated to the Federal Reserve in March for emergency lending programs to assist local governments and struggling businesses, will be put in the US Treasury Department’s General Fund following Mnuchin’s widely condemned decision last week to cut off the relief programs at the end of the year.
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Making headlines: COVID-19 and gender inequality
Dec 03, 2020 11:41We have repeatedly heard about how COVID-19 disproportionately affects women. While men are more likely to die from the virus, in many other respects, women are bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s impact.
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Yemen: In a country stalked by disease, COVID barely registers
Dec 02, 2020 14:29At the beginning of 2020, as COVID-19 began to spread from China and around the world, health workers and aid agencies predicted that the virus’s impact on Yemen’s vulnerable population would be catastrophic, forecasting a 90 percent infection rate.
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Scott Atlas resigns as Trump pandemic adviser after controversial tenure
Dec 02, 2020 14:27Scott Atlas has resigned as special adviser to Donald Trump, a White House official said on Monday (30 Nov) , after a controversial four months during which he attacked science-based public health measures and clashed repeatedly with other members of the coronavirus task-force.