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CDC director: US COVID-19 deaths likely to exceed 9/11 toll for 60 days

Thu, 2020-12-10 18:40 — mike kraft

CDC director: US COVID-19 deaths likely to exceed 9/11 toll for 60 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield issued a stark warning about the worsening death toll from the coronavirus on Thursday, saying that in a coming brutal Peter Sullivan TheHill

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NJ Contact Tracing Non-cooperation Reaches 74 Percent

Wed, 2020-12-09 17:56 — mike kraft

NJ Contact Tracing Non-cooperation Reaches 74 Percent New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy implored state residents Monday to cooperate with coronavirus contact tracers, saying the non-compliance rate had climbed to 74%. Newsmax

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy implored state residents Monday to cooperate with coronavirus contact tracers, saying the non-compliance rate had climbed to 74%.

Murphy wrote on Twitter:

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Health-care workers and nursing home residents should be the first to get coronavirus vaccines, CDC advisory group says

Tue, 2020-12-01 18:18 — mike kraft

Health-care workers and nursing home residents should be the first to get coronavirus vaccines, CDC advisory group says States are likely to put health-care workers first, as debates over the place of older Americans and front-line workers intensify. Lena H. Sun, Isaac Stanley-Becker Washington Post

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COVID-19 Has Claimed the Lives of 100,000 Long-Term Care Residents and Staff

Fri, 2020-11-27 14:42 — mike kraft

COVID-19 Has Claimed the Lives of 100,000 Long-Term Care Residents and Staff More than 100,000 residents and staff have died in long-term care facilities since the start of the pandemic. This post discusses the implications of the likely rise in cases due to holiday gatheri… kffpriyac KFF

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Winning Trust for a Vaccine Means Confronting Medical Racism

Mon, 2020-11-02 20:16 — mike kraft

Winning Trust for a Vaccine Means Confronting Medical Racism The US has a long history of abusing minorities for pharmaceutical profit. Messaging for a Covid-19 inoculation will have to overcome that past. Maryn McKenna Wired

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Virus Surges Again Across Most of the United States

Wed, 2020-10-21 10:07 — mike kraft

As the coronavirus races across the country, it has reached every corner of a nursing home in Kansas, infecting all 62 residents inside. There are so few hospital beds available in North Dakota that patients sick with the virus are being ferried by ambulance to facilities 100 miles away. And in Ohio, more people are hospitalized with the virus than at any other time during the pandemic.

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As Virus Hits Rural U.S., Numbers May Be Small, but the Impact Is Not

Thu, 2020-10-15 10:41 — mike kraft

As Virus Hits Rural U.S., Numbers May Be Small, but the Impact Is Not In Europe, nations are cracking down on movement as cases spike. And is Trump now immune? That’s far from clear, experts warn. nytimes

The spread of the coronavirus in the United States in recent weeks has been worse than it seems, not because of how it has been spreading but where.

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Up to 150 million could join extreme poor, World Bank says

Thu, 2020-10-08 10:25 — mike kraft

Up to 150 million could join extreme poor, World Bank says JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Up to 150 million people could slip into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day, by late next year depending on how badly economies shrink during the COVID-19... AP NEWS

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Up to 150 million people could slip into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day, by late next year depending on how badly economies shrink during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank said Wednesday in an outlook grimmer than before.

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