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Hunger like they've never seen it before: US food banks struggle as 1 in 6 families with children don't have enough to eat
Dec 02, 2020 14:25According to Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the U.S., more than 50 million people will experience food insecurity by the end of the year.
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‘Catastrophic’: Balkan health care overwhelmed by virus surge
Dec 02, 2020 07:43The Western Balkans, one of Europe’s poorest corners, has for weeks been battling an explosive coronavirus spike, its death toll doubling in the last month alone to reach nearly 10,000. The crisis is exposing gaps in health care systems that have long suffered from low funding and a brain drain crisis, with an exodus of promising young doctors and nurses leaving to seek better wages and training abroad.
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US surpasses 13m COVID cases as experts urge caution over Thanksgiving weekend
Nov 30, 2020 02:09America’s coronavirus surge showed no sign of abating over the Thanksgiving holiday, as cases in the country surpassed 13 million on Friday (27 Nov 2020).
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Bleak Milestone: More than 100,000 American nursing home residents and staff killed by pandemic
Nov 30, 2020 02:04As of the last week of November, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people who live and work in long-term care facilities in the United States, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's latest analysis of state-reported data.
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Amid US public health and employment crises, new survey shows poor Americans agree on policy solutions
Nov 29, 2020 06:14According to a recent poll, 73% of Americans living in or near poverty somewhat or strongly agree that "the U.S. government should enact the policies and programs necessary to end U.S. hunger by ensuring that all Americans can afford and access sufficient, nutritious, culturally compatible food."
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Cuba could be on the brink of a revolutionary COVID vaccine, but US sanctions are slowing it down
Nov 27, 2020 16:50Dr. Helen Yaffe of Glasgow University, author of “We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World,” said: “Cuba now has four COVID-specific vaccine candidates under clinical trial. The fact that a small Caribbean island can achieve such a remarkable feat is testimony to its state-owned biotech sector, which is directed towards public health demands and integrated into its healthcare and education systems.
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Ever-growing millions of Americans face eviction and hunger. Will Congress act?
Nov 25, 2020 12:05In the last weeks of 2020, absent quick congressional action and with the pandemic raging worse than ever, millions of Americans are staring into an economic abyss. Somewhere in the region of 12 million people — millions of them temporary workers who don’t qualify, in normal times, for unemployment; and millions more who are now considered to be long-term unemployed and who, again, in normal times would have maxed out their unemployment benefits — will lose their financial lifelines next month.
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US rural hospitals are facing unprecedented challenges amid worsening pandemic
Nov 24, 2020 05:44Rural American health care systems entered the coronavirus pandemic in already precarious financial positions. Over the years, shifting demographics, declining revenue and increasing operating expenses have made it harder for rural hospitals to stay in business.
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America is letting the Coronavirus rage through prisons
Nov 24, 2020 05:41As Americans grapple with how to gather with loved ones this holiday season, the roughly two million people confined in the nation’s prisons and jails face an even grimmer challenge: how to stay alive inside a system being ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.
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US worst fears have come true: With no sign of federal relief, nursing home industry study shows surge in COVID-19
Nov 20, 2020 16:29A new study shows that weekly COVID-19 cases in US nursing homes have reached record numbers this month (November) and traces the spike to community spread outside the facilities. According to Johns Hopkins University, weekly new cases of COVDI-19 rose 140% in the first week of November, with more than 572,000 Americans infected.