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Nov 12 2020
Analysis
Democrats and Republicans are still far apart on economic stimulus deal as coronavirus infections surge
The top Democrats in Congress said Thursday that a record surge in U.S. coronavirus infections raises the urgency for a new relief bill.
The part of the process that has confounded Washington for months — crafting a bill backed by both Democrats and Republicans — has become no less of a challenge since Election Day.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
CNBC
Aug 05 2020
News
Trump Encourages Floridians to Vote by Mail After Saying Practice Leads to 'Massive Cheating'
President Donald Trump encouraged all Floridians to vote by mail Tuesday, just a week after he told Axios interviewer Jonathan Swan that mail-in voting on a large scale results in "massive cheating."
"There is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating," Trump said during the July 28 interview, which aired on HBO Monday. He referred to recent efforts by state
Newsweek
Dec 23 2020
News
Do You Have A Winter Health Issue Or COVID-19? Here's How To Tell.
Ah, winter ― a time where we find ourselves constantly asking if we’re sick or if it’s just a reaction to the weather and all that comes with it. And during the coronavirus pandemic, those average winter symptoms feel even more alarming.
“As we go into these winter months, symptoms may be due to different things and lines get blurrier,” said Stephanie Christenson, a pulmonologist and
HuffPost
Mar 24 2020
News
India’s prime minister decrees 21-day lockdown to curb virus
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will begin the world’s largest lockdown on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address, warning citizens to stay inside or risk inviting the pandemic into their homes, and pledging $2 billion to bolster the country’s beleaguered health care system.
“To save India and every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out,” Modi said Tuesday
Associated Press
Sep 26 2020
News
Democrats: Amy Coney Barrett Will Strip Millions of Health Insurance
On Saturday, Democrats quickly criticized President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, arguing that her confirmation would put millions of Americans’ health insurance in jeopardy.
In a statement, former Vice President Joe Biden focused on Coney Barrett’s “written track record of disagreeing with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable
Mother Jones
Apr 30 2020
News
Rent Is Due Again and Missing Payments Have Landlords Worrying
Mounting economic fallout from the pandemic is fueling apartment landlords’ concerns that more tenants will struggle to make their rent payments, even after most managed to come up with the money for April.
“May 1 will be a bigger watershed,” said John Pawlowski, a senior analyst at real estate research firm Green Street Advisors. “Think about when the job losses started accelerating
Bloomberg
Apr 30 2020
News
For Native Americans, coronavirus looks heartbreakingly familiar
For the first North Americans, memories of pandemics are long.
Lela Oman was an infant in Nome, Alaska, during the 1918 flu epidemic. Nome, on the far northwestern tip of the continent, had just gotten a telephone line, so residents were able to get some advance warning.
Everyone knew what to do after that, Ms. Oman recalled in a 1996 interview for a University of Alaska,
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 22 2020
News
Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with
Reuters
Dec 21 2020
Analysis
Only the world wars have rivalled covid-19 for news coverage
Given how much the world has changed in 2020, it is hard to fathom that the year was just one leap-day longer than 2019. On January 16th The Economist published its first article about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, which at that point had been confirmed only as the cause of 42 infections and one death. Two weeks later, covid-19 made its debut on our cover. It returned there on February
The Economist
May 18 2021
News
What's the future of work: Home, office or something new?
The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic last spring forced businesses and their employees to radically reimagine their day-to-day work life. In industries where remote work is possible, everyone had to figure out how to get things done from a distance seemingly overnight. Now, as vaccines slowly reduce the threat of the virus, companies are planning a transition back to a new normal — a
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