The Lancet’s Cutting Edge
Should medical journals enter the political realm?
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A Rising Orthodox Populist Is Leading A Violent Campaign Of COVID Denial In Borough Park
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators chanted his name, waving Trump and Thin Blue Lines flags as they jockeyed for a chance to meet the brash right-wing radio host leading the campaign to stop the new COVID-19 lockdown measures.
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Covid: how Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 test results in England
The data error, which led to 15,841 positive tests being left off the official daily figures, means than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers and not told to self-isolate.
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A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci’s Agency
William B. Crews is, by day, a public affairs specialist for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But for years he has been writing for RedState under the streiff pseudonym. And in that capacity he has been contributing to the very same disinformation campaign that his superiors at the NIAID say is a major challenge to widespread efforts to control a pandemic that has claimed roughly 200,000 U.S. lives.
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Trump Lied About COVID to Protect the Markets, Not Human Beings
William B. Crews is, by day, a public affairs specialist for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But for years he has been writing for RedState under the streiff pseudonym. And in that capacity he has been contributing to the very same disinformation campaign that his superiors at the NIAID say is a major challenge to widespread efforts to control a pandemic that has claimed roughly 200,000 U.S. lives.
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Mask Up and Shut Up
Yes, it is finally time to talk, in this pandemic, about the importance of not talking in this pandemic.
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Millennials Slammed by Second Financial Crisis Fall Even Further Behind
The economic fallout of the Covid pandemic has been harder on millennials, who are already indebted and a step behind on the career ladder from the last financial crisis. This second pummeling could keep them from accruing the wealth of older generations.
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After hundreds of covid-19 deaths in state-run veterans homes, lawmakers press VA to adhere to science
The push comes as lawmakers continue to probe patient care at state-run homes for veterans, which receive about $1 billion in federal funding.
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US workers file over 1 million jobless claims for 20th straight week
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits topped 1 million for the twentieth straight week — bringing the total number of initial jobless claims filed during the coronavirus pandemic to more than 55 million.
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The $1.9 Million Covid Patient
The most perplexing cases include those stuck in limbo for weeks, straining hospitals and racking up huge bills.