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How The Unpredictable Coronavirus Pandemic Took a Terrible Toll

Schools in states like Georgia and Indiana have already been open for a month, but experts say they cannot yet be sure what the effect will be on virus transmission in communities. Bill Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said that because of the huge variation in […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 20, 2020, 9:05 pm
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Nearly 70% Of Americans Want Nothing To Do With Trump’s Coronavirus Vaccine

69% of Americans in a new poll said that they had no confidence in Trump to confirm a safe coronavirus vaccine. A new ABC News/Ipsos poll found: Fewer than 1 in 10 (9%) Americans have a great deal of confidence in Trump to confirm vaccine effectiveness with another 18% reporting only a “good amount” of […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 20, 2020, 7:57 pm
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China T.V. Show Praising Coronavirus Fight Sparks a Backlash from Women

“In real life, they pushed women out” onto the front lines, said one commenter about the show on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform. “In propaganda, they buried the women.” The comment was liked more than 30,000 times. The episode was the pilot of a new show, “Heroes in Harm’s Way,” that dramatizes Wuhan’s battle against the […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 20, 2020, 3:05 pm
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The coronavirus pandemic is widening the racial wealth gap

Even during the economic recovery of recent years, minority groups were lagging behind, says [Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy] Economic Policy Institute. “There were significant racial disparities in wages, significant racial disparities in unemployment, significant racial disparities in the kinds of jobs people held.” Black, Latino and Native […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 20, 2020, 3:00 am
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A Coronavirus Infection Complicates Portland-Area Firefighting Efforts

AMBOY, Wash. — A team directing the firefighting efforts in the Pacific Northwest went into temporary isolation this week after a member of a resupply crew tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said on Friday. The diagnosis, which halted work at an incident command post in Washington State for about an hour on Thursday, comes […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 18, 2020, 10:46 pm
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Polls: Coronavirus Pulls Down Trump and GOP Senators Suffer

President Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has imperiled both his own re-election and his party’s majority in the Senate, and Republican lawmakers in crucial states like Arizona, North Carolina and Maine have fallen behind their Democratic challengers amid broad disapproval of the president, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 18, 2020, 2:10 pm
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Opinion | What’s Next for the Coronavirus?

Second Waves, Magic Thresholds Let’s set aside the wave analogy. Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, says that it’s far more accurate to think of the pandemic as a forest fire. We have suppressed it in some places, but we have not […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 18, 2020, 10:23 am
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Coronavirus Vaccine: Moderna and Pfizer Reveal Secret Blueprints Trials

Two drug companies that are leading the race to develop coronavirus vaccines bowed to public pressure on Thursday, abandoning their traditional secrecy and releasing comprehensive road maps of how they are evaluating their vaccines. The companies, Moderna and Pfizer, revealed details about how participants are being selected and monitored, the conditions under which the trials […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 18, 2020, 2:47 am
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White House Forced The CDC To Downplay The Need For Coronavirus Testing

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was forced by HHS and the White House coronavirus task force to downplay the need for testing in updated guidance published to the CDC website last month, a new report reveals. According to The New York Times, “A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 18, 2020, 1:31 am
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Former GOP Chair Torches Bill Barr For Comparing Coronavirus Restrictions To Slavery

Former chair of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, ripped into William Barr on Thursday after the attorney general compared coronavirus restrictions to slavery. During an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Steele called Barr’s assertion “an insult on the families and the legacies of the men and women who were a part of that horrendous […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 18, 2020, 12:00 am
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“Stop Expecting Life to Go Back to Normal Next Year.” AMA. : Coronavirus

Please view our rules before posting or commenting In December 2019, a novel coronavirus strain (Sars-CoV-2) emerged in the city of Wuhan, China. This subreddit seeks to monitor the spread of the disease COVID-19, declared a PHEIC by the WHO. Please be civil and empathetic. This subreddit is for high quality posts and discussion. Here […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 17, 2020, 3:38 pm
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‘House Arrest’ – AG Barr Says Other Than Slavery, Coronavirus Stay-At-Home Orders “Greatest Intrusion on Civil Liberties in American History” (VIDEO)

US Attorney General Bill Barr said other than slavery, Coronavirus stay-at-home orders are the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.” Barr also said the lockdown orders are like ‘house arrest.’ The Attorney General made these statements Wednesday at a Constitution Day event sponsored by Hillsdale College. “Most of the governors do what bureaucrats […] More

by Tonya Frazier September 17, 2020, 3:05 pm

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