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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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Iran: Health Ministry confirms 3,097 new COVID-19 infections
Sep 20, 2020 10:02The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 3,097 COVID-19 infections and 183 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.
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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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UK Home Office plans to evict asylum seekers despite warning of second wave of coronavirus
Sep 20, 2020 04:41Thousands of asylum seekers currently accommodated in hotels across the UK are becoming homeless despite warnings of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Surge in Turkish COVID-19 cases pits doctors against politicians
Sep 20, 2020 04:01Resurgent coronavirus cases in Turkey are fueling tensions between doctors who say the official figures underplay the scale of the outbreak and politicians who accuse the country's medical association of undermining efforts to contain it on.
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Iran prepares 14 million flu vaccine doses to cope with COVID-19 complications
Sep 20, 2020 00:56The Iranian Health Ministry is preparing 14 million flu vaccine doses as part of its efforts to head off complications that might impact the healthcare system in the country in the autumn and winter if people simultaneously contract the flu and the COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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Trump promises vaccines 'for every American' as election nears
Sep 19, 2020 11:35President Donald Trump has vowed that COVID-19 vaccines will be available for "for every American" by April, escalating already ambitious goals to address a pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people in the United States.