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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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Iran forms committee to oversee development of COVID-19 vaccine
Sep 03, 2020 09:12Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced the creation of a special national committee charged with overseeing the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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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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Coronavirus in Iran: Over 1,800 new cases detected
Sep 02, 2020 08:28More than 1,850 new coronavirus cases detected in Iran during the past 24 hours, over 1,100 have been admitted to the hospital.
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US refuses to join global effort to develop COVID-19 vaccine
Sep 02, 2020 04:18The administration of President Donald Trump has announced the United States would not join a global effort to develop, produce and distribute a vaccine for the coronavirus because the effort is co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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India leads global rise in new weekly COVID-19 cases, while deaths down: WHO
Sep 01, 2020 12:31India reported the most new COVID-19 cases of any country in the past week, its nearly half a million fresh infections pushing the global tally up by 1 percent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.