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Fox Lied, 200,000 died: Video mash-up chronicles cable network downplaying COVID-19 dangers as pandemic soared
Sep 24, 2020 16:52As the United States passes the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, Fox News continues to mostly ignore the ever-mounting death toll in favor of complaining about health measures meant to mitigate the pandemic's worst-case scenario.
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Trump spreads misinformation with claim that Dems wrote Ginsburg’s dying wish
Sep 24, 2020 16:50US President Donald Trump made false assertions recently regarding the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish, insinuating that her request to have her successor named after the election was crafted by leading Democrats in Congress.
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Astounding: Trump officials reportedly bypassed CDC scientists to publish 'dangerous' COVID-19 testing guidelines
Sep 24, 2020 16:42Trump administration officials at the Department of Health and Human Services reportedly bypassed career government scientists and authored the significantly relaxed coronavirus testing guidelines that experts criticized as medically unsound and dangerous when they were first published on the CDC website in August.
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Insufficient COVID protections for US postal workers pose threat to mail-in voting
Sep 22, 2020 18:48In recent weeks, furors over Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s cost-cutting initiatives, and over US President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated warnings of voter fraud, have overshadowed a significant threat to the Postal Service’s ability to handle the expected tens of millions of mail-in ballots this fall: a rapid rise in the number of workers sidelined by COVID-19.
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According to Oxfam, rich countries have already hoarded most future COVID vaccines
Sep 21, 2020 15:53The world’s wealthiest nations have already quietly bought up more than half of the potential future supply of the most promising COVID-19 vaccine doses, leaving little for anyone else.
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Trump falsely claims COVID death toll is not so bad if you leave out blue states
Sep 21, 2020 15:52In yet another attempt to evade responsibility for the nation’s disastrous coronavirus response as the U.S. death toll approaches 200,000, President Donald Trump late Wednesday September 16th said the fact that millions of Americans haven’t died of Covid-19 is a sign of success and declared, “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at.”
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Trump touts herd immunity approach that experts warn would kill millions
Sep 21, 2020 15:41To reach “herd immunity” to the virus, experts say around 65% of the U.S. population — over 200 million people — would have to be infected. Given the current U.S. death rate from Covid-19, that number of cases would kill millions of people.
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India facing oxygen scarcity as virus cases surge
Sep 21, 2020 07:44According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some 15 percent of COVID-19 patients require help with breathing. Some people appear in no evident respiratory distress, but are found to have dangerously low oxygen levels — a condition called silent hypoxia. A fraction of the critically ill patients require a ventilator.
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Millions of American children go hungry as Mitch McConnell blocks stimulus bill
Sep 20, 2020 05:16Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, and emergency food assistance is set to expire on September 30 as Congress remains at an impasse over stimulus legislation.
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USDA and meatpacking industry collaborated to undermine COVID-19 response, documents show
Sep 18, 2020 16:44The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the meatpacking industry worked together to downplay and disregard risks to worker health during the COVID-19 pandemic, as shown in documents published Monday by Public Citizen and American Oversight.