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Trump says doctors and nurses “running into death” is “beautiful thing to see”
May 26, 2020 04:06As healthcare workers across the U.S. continue to protest the federal government's failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment and ensure strict workplace safety standards to protect them from Covid-19, President Donald Trump on Thursday—standing in front of stacked boxes of medical supplies—said that frontline nurses and doctors "running into death just like soldiers run into bullets" is "a beautiful thing to see."
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Trump wanted less testing because Jared Kushner said it would spook Wall Street
May 26, 2020 03:58US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner discouraged efforts to ramp up testing for weeks after the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. over of concerns that a rising number of cases might spook Wall Street, according to a new report.
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54,000 US deaths could’ve been prevented if distancing were introduced March 1
May 25, 2020 13:00A newly released study from Columbia University concludes that tens of thousands of Americans likely died from COVID-19 due to the initial inaction and slow response to the disease from the Trump administration.
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Trump pressures CDC to lower COVID death count by changing calculation method
May 25, 2020 03:37US President Donald Trump and members of the White House's coronavirus task force have put pressure on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to alter how it counts virus deaths, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.
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US workers are afraid of returning to work amid pandemic. Will there be a general strike?
May 25, 2020 03:29Calls for a general strike in the US are growing as millions of people consider going back to work after months of quarantine. Could a mass work stoppage be on the horizon?
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Native American health clinic in US receives body bags instead of requested COVID-19 testing kits
May 24, 2020 09:10Seattle-area Native American health center in the US in April received body bags instead of requested equipment to handle the coronavirus in what tribal officials described as a “metaphor” for how the Indigenous population is being treated by local, state, and federal governments around the country as the pandemic continues to rage.
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Challenges for South Asia in, and after, pandemic
May 23, 2020 10:48In less than three months, Covid-19 has made a serious impact on our lives. Worldwide almost 2 million are now infected and more than a hundred thousand have died.
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Future of health care in post-Covid-19 world
May 23, 2020 10:33The coronavirus pandemic has tested global health systems to the maximum, exposing the unpreparedness of many across the globe. This leads to a simple question: What lessons can health-care systems learn in order to become more robust and responsive to global crises like this, and how will those systems look in a post-Covid-19 world?
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COVID deaths in US approach 100,000 as Trump administration misleads public
May 23, 2020 10:30Tensions are high at today’s World Health Organization (WHO) meeting as China and the U.S. growl at each other over Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s baseless allegation that COVID-19 emerged from a Wuhan laboratory, and over accusations from White House trade adviser Peter Navarro that China used air travel to “seed” COVID around the world.
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US is using pandemic as an excuse to send asylum seekers back into harm’s way
May 23, 2020 10:25The Trump administration began pushing its agenda of shutting down asylum in the U.S. right out of the gate, and COVID-19 has now provided a new justification.