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Health workers sue Trump labor secretary, OSHA over 'unconscionable delay' of protections against infectious disease
Nov 04, 2020 17:16The Trump administration has refused to resume work on new federal regulations—tabled in 2017—despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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As COVID-19 soars ahead of election, tapes reveal Kushner bragging about how Trump wrestled response 'back from the doctors'
Nov 01, 2020 17:45US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner bragged about Trump “getting the country back from the doctors” in an April interview with journalist Bob Woodward, a report says. The senior White House advisor boasted that the president was ignoring scientists and medical experts as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, according to audio obtained by CNN.
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Documents reveal WH officials tried to use $250 million in taxpayer money on COVID ad campaign to boost Trump reelection
Nov 01, 2020 05:56New documents released on Thursday, October 29th by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee reveal that Trump administration officials explicitly attempted to use a $250 million taxpayer-funded "public advertising and awareness campaign" to put a rosy spin on President Donald Trump's disastrous coronavirus response and boost his effort to win reelection.
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Only state investment can revive Britain’s zombie economy
Oct 29, 2020 07:06Britain is sleepwalking into a debt crisis that will undermine its prospects of a sustainable recovery. It’s not the debts of the government that are at issue; it is the monumental amount of borrowing by the private sector, much of it from the Treasury, that will hang like a dead weight on the shoulders of thousands of businesses, possibly for a decade.
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Air pollution increases SARS-CoV-2 transmission, it kills half a million babies across globe in 2019
Oct 28, 2020 10:55Evidence from China indicates that higher air pollution could lead to increased transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), leading to more COVID-19 cases.
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Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by Spring 2021, study finds
Oct 27, 2020 19:12The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington released a model showing that nearly 130,000 people's lives would be saved from now until early Spring 2021 if the U.S. adopted universal mask-wearing.
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Trump’s lawyers want Trump’s judges to limit voting
Oct 27, 2020 18:17The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) have pushed one narrative in a raft of nearly identical lawsuits from California to Pennsylvania all tied around limiting mail-in voting. The central theme: claims, without evidence, that widely used mail-in voting would lead to massive voter fraud.
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A long, uneven and uncertain ascent
Oct 26, 2020 12:51Except for China, where output is expected to exceed 2019 levels this year, output in both advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies is projected to remain below 2019 levels even next year. Countries that rely more on contact-intensive services and oil exporters face weaker recoveries compared to manufacturing-led economies.
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Trump’s “lethal screwup” on COVID led to 130,000 avoidable deaths, study says
Oct 25, 2020 12:36A new study by researchers at Columbia University estimates that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus in the United States could have been avoided, placing much of the blame for those deaths on the “abject failure” of the Trump administration.
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Hospitals brace for Europe’s second COVID-19 wave
Oct 25, 2020 05:38Europe’s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is reviving the pressure on hospitals in the worst-hit cities, and forcing health care systems around the continent to devise contingency plans that draw on the lessons of this spring’s deadly first wave.