Zero New COVID Deaths in NYC, All-Time Low Positivity Rate as More Vaccine Prizes Debut
Also on Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the statewide rolling positivity rate dropped to a new low (0.65%), marking 57 straight days of decline
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How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
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Trump’s COVID Advisers Are at Their Breaking Point
Even as the president was rushed to the hospital at Walter Reed, for what the White House said would be days of observation, rest, and testing, officials inside the administration said they didn’t anticipate much of a shake-up in their approach to combating COVID. There would reportedly be no official revised mask policy, which remained encouraged but not required.
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Hopes of 'herd immunity' wane in Manaus as city declares state of emergency to curb Covid resurgence
Hospitals and cemeteries are again overwhelmed, resembling the brutal outbreak last April. It comes as Brazil's death toll hits 200,000.
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‘Frustrated and fractured’ Congress remains at an impasse on COVID relief
They have been trying to figure out a deal, and they cannot get there. It is a real problem for overall COVID relief.
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Koreans Believed America Was Exceptional. Then Covid Happened.
These days in Korea, TV broadcasters talk about the U.S. with grim faces, flashing to B-roll of lines of Americans wrapped around buildings waiting for Covid-19 testing or graphs depicting an exponential growth of pandemic deaths. Newspaper headlines question the strength of U.S. democracy above pictures of demonstrators protesting mythical claims of voter fraud.
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Food Banks Struggle To Meet Demand During Covid Thanksgiving
On any given month before the pandemic, volunteers and staff would distribute food to as many as 300,000 people. With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to wreak economic devastation across the United States, that number has tripled.
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The kids aren’t alright: How Generation Covid is losing out
Should medical journals enter the political realm?
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New York Needs Money for Vaccine Distribution, Cuomo Says
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday vowed a robust vaccination distribution plan in New York amid a dispute with the Trump administration over how to do so, while also raising concerns the state needs the resources for the undertaking in the coming weeks.
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Covid-19 Is Resurging, and This Time It’s Everywhere
Pervasive spread in smaller communities fuels nationwide case record, though mortality rates are lower than in the spring