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Trump denounces Fauci as a “disaster” who “got it wrong” about COVID-19
Oct 24, 2020 06:28US president Donald Trump denounced Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a “disaster” and possible “idiot” who “got it wrong” about COVID-19 — even though the president recently used Fauci’s words in a recent campaign commercial.
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300,000 excess deaths this year suggest US COVID death rate is higher than reported
Oct 23, 2020 06:02The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Tuesday October 20th that hundreds of thousands more Americans died this year than in previous years, likely owing to the coronavirus pandemic. As of Tuesday afternoon, 225,698 Americans have died from coronavirus.
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COVID-19 in US prisons is far worse than previously thought, data trackers say
Oct 23, 2020 05:03Interviews with attorneys, volunteers and legal experts tracking COVID-19 data in prisons across the United States reveal that the pandemic is affecting incarcerated people even more than initially understood.
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Trump downplayed COVID at his town hall. No wonder he’s losing older voters
Oct 22, 2020 18:40The spread of COVID-19 poses a particular problem to Trump and his votes. The US government has taken the approach of denying the reality of the pandemic. That has indeed been the picture in Brazil and (to some extent) in Britain — in consequence, all three governments are in difficulty.
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COVID-19 spikes in US rural areas while hospitals face financial crisis
Oct 22, 2020 18:37In the United States, 132 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, including 15 this year, fanning fears that the infectious coronavirus could spread rapidly into rural states, reports say.
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Treasury says US budget gap tripled to record $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020
Oct 22, 2020 10:39The US budget deficit tripled to a record $3.1 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 as the government battled the global coronavirus pandemic that plunged the country into a recession, has taken more than 225,000 American lives and thrown millions out of work.
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As White House embraces dangerous 'herd immunity' strategy, COVID-19 deaths predicted to spike 80% in US by February
Oct 20, 2020 18:12As the Trump administration ignores the pleas of its own health experts and embraces a "herd immunity" strategy that scientists have condemned as fringe and dangerous, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine are predicting an 80% spike in U.S. coronavirus deaths by February as cases continue to rise across the nation.
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In Afghanistan, American troops patrol the same routes their fathers did
Oct 18, 2020 17:17Thousands of US troops continue to pace and patrol exactly the same routes as their predecessors did in 2001, fighting a seemingly endless conflict that both the American and Afghan public have long since soured on.
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Trump will never admit error. His lack of self-accountability is deadly
Oct 18, 2020 07:26On September 9, Bob Woodward’s new book Rage revealed that Donald Trump knew back in February how lethal COVID-19 was, and deliberately chose to play down the threat.
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A four-year timeline of Trump’s impact on science
Oct 15, 2020 11:13From travel bans to human spaceflight to the coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump’s policies and actions have changed science. Since he took office in January 2017, Trump has not made science a priority; he has proposed massive cuts to many science agencies and took 19 months to nominate a science adviser. But his policies and actions have had strong impacts – many of them harmful – on researchers and issues related to science.