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Revealed: Top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge
May 01, 2022 11:27A Guardian analysis uncovers how American companies enriched themselves and their investors while boasting about jacking up prices.
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‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
May 01, 2022 11:21‘Zoonotic spillovers’ or the transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans, expected to rise with at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over next 50 years.
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Top Tory MPs say Boris Johnson should go sooner rather than later
Apr 28, 2022 05:28The problems that have recently engulfed the previous favourite to succeed UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Chancellor of Exchequer, Rishi Sunak – over his wife’s tax affairs, and the fact that he, too, was fined for breaking lockdown rules – are seen as having destroyed his chances of following Johnson into No 10.
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Boris Johnson's Ukraine jaunt and what it says about Britain
Apr 24, 2022 05:15Make no mistake about it, the war in Ukraine has been weaponized by Boris Johnson regime for political gain at home, evidenced in his attempt to make turn Ukraine into some holy cause that will, if it continues along the present trajectory, take Britain and by extension NATO perilously close to direct military confrontation with Russia.
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Why WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne
Apr 21, 2022 10:32Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air. That mistake and the prolonged process of correcting it sowed confusion and raises questions about what will happen in the next pandemic.
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Vaccines are no match for long COVID. Treating it is science’s next great challenge
Apr 19, 2022 16:24Long COVID sufferers need a large-scale recovery trial, fast-tracked to offer them some answers about treatments. Many of the responses offered when they get to the front of the queue at long COVID clinics are about readjustment and rehabilitation in light of their new disability. They do not want readjustment, they want their lives back.
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COVID-19 death rates in poorer US counties were nearly double
Apr 18, 2022 15:18As the US approaches 1 million deaths from COVID-19, it can feel impossible to wrap Americans' heads around such a devastating figure. But it's essential if they want to treat the pre-existing conditions that made it so deadly.
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COVID vaccine plus infection can lead to months of immunity
Apr 14, 2022 09:34Findings show that before the advent of Omicron, vaccination benefited even those who had had a bout of COVID-19.
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Top Tories say Rishi Sunak’s hopes of becoming UK’s prime minister are over
Apr 11, 2022 00:36UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is believed to be considering a ministerial reshuffle in the summer or autumn. There are known to have been tensions between No 10 and No 11 after the Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak offered only lukewarm support to Johnson at the height of the scandal over lockdown-busting parties, before Russia’s special operation in Ukraine.
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Drop in US life expectancy 'speaks volumes' about how the country handled COVID: expert
Apr 11, 2022 00:32Just over a month into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, research revealed recently that life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2021.