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Global Covid-19 cases top 10 million as HHS secretary warns 'window is closing' to get disease back under control in US
Jul 04, 2020 05:10US coronavirus related deaths now exceed 125,000, about one-quarter of the world total.
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Car crashes deadlier as drivers speed during lockdowns
Jul 04, 2020 03:59The US National Safety Council said recently as traffic plummeted across the country during coronavirus lockdown, roads became more lethal, with a 37 percent increase in fatality rates per miles driven in April, compared to the same month last year.
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NHS facing shortage of doctors before second wave of coronavirus arrives
Jul 04, 2020 03:52A new survey of doctors in the UK found almost one in seven is planning to quit the NHS or retire when the current crisis subsides, with many more saying they aim to cut back on hours, and almost a third complaining of mental health problems related to four months of relentless struggle against Covid-19.
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Analysis warns 11% of American unemployed due to pandemic have 'zero chance' of getting job back
Jul 03, 2020 00:56The US ongoing economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus pandemic will leave over 17 million workers without a job to return to once the outbreak is over, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute's Heidi Shierholz, who also predicts without sustained and continued federal action 10 million or more jobs could be lost in the next year.
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20 million Americans could lose health coverage as Trump aims to end Obamacare
Jul 01, 2020 09:05Repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which is sometimes called “Obamacare,” could cause significant harm to the American people, particularly those who depend on the program to access health insurance through state exchanges. If the law were to end suddenly by the US President Donald Trump, it’s estimated that 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage.
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Worst virus fears realized in poor or war-torn countries
Jul 01, 2020 08:49Coronavirus lockdowns are likely the most effective safeguard, but they have exacted a heavy toll even on middle-class families in Europe and North America, and are economically devastating in developing countries. India’s lockdown, the world’s largest, caused countless migrant workers in major cities to lose their jobs overnight.
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Is America a failed state? Trump’s COVID response has many saying “yes”
Jun 30, 2020 14:51Evident by its response to COVID-19, its brutal crackdown on racial-justice protesters, and its inability to hold free and fair elections, experts are in agreement: the United States is a nation in decline.
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COVID-19 may be linked to brain complications, but does it cause them?
Jun 30, 2020 04:31Over the course of three weeks in April, researchers surveyed 153 hospitalized patients in the UK who had both a new confirmed or probable COVID-19 diagnosis and a new neurological or psychiatric diagnosis.
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Trump’s ratings in free fall as COVID infections rise by 25 percent in one week
Jun 29, 2020 11:18New poll suggests nearly three-in-five Americans, 58 percent, disapprove of how US president, Donald Trump has handled the coronavirus pandemic and believe he has done a poor job of trying to address and contain the spread of COVID-19.
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Florida reports 9,000 new coronavirus cases in biggest daily surge
Jun 29, 2020 11:06Florida reported a record number of new coronavirus cases on Friday: In the past 24 hours, 8,942 new infections were confirmed, representing a nearly 8% increase in the state's total number of cases. It was the biggest single-day coronavirus case surge any state had seen since April 15, when New York reported 11,571 cases.