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ECB joins central banks pledging coronavirus action if needed
Mar 06, 2020 16:40Finance ministers from the Group of Seven were expected to lead a global teleconference in the coming days to discuss their response to the economic threat posed by the coronavirus. The ministers were expected to be joined by their central bank governors. That could be the prelude to concerted action that might include a global series of interest rate cuts.
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Public attempt to control fake news about the coronavirus
Mar 06, 2020 16:35Dr. Mike Ryan, Head of the WHO's Health Emergency Program, at a WHO briefing on the coronavirus earlier this month said "We need a vaccine against misinformation." China is the world's most populous country has the largest market of Internet users globally: 21% of the world's 3.8 billion Internet users, so fake news can spread quickly online. A 2018 study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that "false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does."
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US is not prepared for coronavirus (1)
Mar 06, 2020 13:13A 2019 report by CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security found “the United States remains woefully ill-prepared to respond to global health security threats.” Meanwhile if the coronavirus spreads in the US, it will highlight the danger of healthcare inequality in this country as millions of people without insurance will delay seeking care and spread the disease to family, neighbors, and co-workers.
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Iran's dynamic and Jihadi campaign against novel coronavirus
Mar 04, 2020 17:41National solidarity and resolve for fighting the novel coronavirus, referred to as COVID-19, is cementing further, proving that the Iranian nation does not submit to difficulties, and never loses hope under any circumstances.
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Missteps at U.S. centers for disease control and prevention have set back its ability to detect spread of coronavirus
Mar 03, 2020 16:14"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lost valuable weeks that could have been used to track its possible spread in the United States because it insisted upon devising its own test". This was part of an article written jointly by Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill & Isaac Arnsdorf from ProPublica in an article titled: Missteps at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect Spread of Coronavirus.
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Media hype over coronavirus is spreading faster than the virus itself
Mar 03, 2020 06:29Just over 3,000 people have died after contracting the virus since the first reported case on December 1. According to the World Health Organization, over the same time period, a condition like diarrhea typically kills around 550,000, something that could easily be remedied in virtually every case. Yet these shocking realities that rival the worst predictions of what the coronavirus could bring are ignored as mundane, business-as-usual non-stories by comparison.
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US voters head to polls with anxiety over medical bills as coronavirus spreads
Mar 02, 2020 12:38In a US nationwide survey of 1,207 adults released by the Kaiser Family Foundation on Friday, about two-thirds said they are either “very worried” (35 percent) or “somewhat worried” (30 percent) about paying unexpected medical bills because a medical service was not covered by their insurance plan or a provider was out of their plan’s network.
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Pence hates science, tasking him with coronavirus response could cost American lives
Mar 01, 2020 17:02"Mike Pence is a hardcore supremacist whose first instinct is to deny scientific facts if they brush up against the hard shell of his extremist views. Putting a man like that in charge of a crisis like this, in which science is the best weapon we have, is a gross miscalculation and a wildly irresponsible act", says William Rivers Pitt, senior editor and lead columnist at Truthout in an article titled: Pence Hates Science. Tasking Him with Coronavirus Response Could Cost American Lives.
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How can the US confront coronavirus with 28 million people uninsured?
Mar 01, 2020 16:59Roughly 28 million Americans lack health insurance. That number has gone up every year of the Trump presidency and will continue to go up so long as current policies are in place that drive immigrants ever further outside the safety net, that encourage states to limit Medicaid access, and that make it harder for individuals to access health care exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act.
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Iran conquers coronavirus despite US propaganda
Feb 26, 2020 09:39The US, in its blind hatred of the Islamic Republic of Iran, following its forty years of failures against the Iranian people, has now chosen a new weapon, because of its sheer desperation, the Coronavirus, little knowing that this is also destined to doom, thanks to the firm of faith of the Iranian Muslims in God Almighty and their ingenuity in mastering modern science and technology.