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Hunger threatening to kill more people than COVID this year
Sep 03, 2020 14:34COVID-19 has exposed some of the world's deepest inequalities. It's also a determining force in who gets to eat and who doesn't, underscoring global social divides as the richest keep enjoying a breakneck pace of wealth accumulation. Millions of people have been thrown out of work and don't have enough money to feed their families, despite the trillions in government stimulus that's helped send global equities to all-time highs.
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'White House cover-up': Covid-19 task force reports withheld from public reveal Trump knew of threats as he spread lies
Sep 03, 2020 14:29Rather than being straight with the American people and creating a national plan to fix the problem, the US president and his enablers kept these alarming reports private while publicly downplaying the threat to millions of Americans.
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US is facing a child care crisis as schools go digital
Sep 03, 2020 14:27“A child care crisis is in the offing in the United States as school-age children stay home for the new school year and working parents face the prospect of more state interference”, says Raul Diego, writer, in an article titled: US Is Facing a Child Care Crisis as Schools Go Digital.
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As Trump pushes new tax cuts for wealthy, analysis shows US billionaires $800 billion richer since pandemic hit
Sep 03, 2020 14:22A new research found that between March 18 and August 20—a five-month period in which the economy tanked and tens of millions of people across the U.S. lost their jobs—the combined wealth of America's more than 600 billionaires jumped by $792 billion, bringing their collective net worth to a staggering $3.7 trillion.
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Deep cuts to Florida’s public health system made the state vulnerable to COVID
Sep 03, 2020 14:17When the wave of COVID-19 inundated US state of Florida, the state was caught flat-footed when it mattered most, its main lines of defense eviscerated. Now, confirmed cases have soared past 588,000 and deaths have risen to more than 10,000.
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How to stop COVID-19 fuelling a resurgence of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
Sep 02, 2020 13:25AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB), three of the deadliest infectious diseases, together kill 2.4 million people every year, with TB alone responsible for 1.5 million deaths. And deaths from these diseases could almost double over the next year, according to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a consortium of donors that funds treatments. The reason: coronavirus. It’s a horrifying prospect, and calls for an urgent action plan.
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As GOP officially re-nominates Trump, poll shows 68% in US disapprove of president's pandemic response
Aug 26, 2020 11:13As the GOP's 2020 convention kicked off Monday August 24th and Republicans officially nominated President Donald Trump for reelection, new polling revealed that a bipartisan majority of Americans disapprove of how the president and federal government are handling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Can the US restore its global supremacy?
Aug 24, 2020 11:19While the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continues to propagate dangerously across the world, there is no denying that its health risks are real. Unfortunately, it has been used politically by the US to further its trade war against China, with a singular objective of bringing the Chinese to the negotiation table. Beneath this global propaganda lies another, more sinister agenda. It is looking like the US and some of its allies are using the pandemic to cover up their poor governance.
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Study shows 'unambiguous evidence' Covid-19 infectious in the air, researchers claim
Aug 21, 2020 17:20A research team at the University of Florida has confirmed Covid-19 does live in aerosol droplets, and that the standard 6-foot social distancing protocols used around the world as safety precautions may not be sufficient.
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3 in 5 Americans firmly oppose Trump on his push to reopen schools, poll finds
Aug 21, 2020 17:13Americans overwhelmingly oppose schools fully reopening as coronavirus cases continue to climb across the country, according to a new poll.