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COVID-19: Worldwide roundup of developments--AP

Mon, 2020-11-23 09:59 — mike kraft

The Latest: Croatia's capital city offers free antigen tests ZAGREB, Croatia — Citizens of Croatia’s capital city have been lining up for free rapid antigen testing that has been introduced as part of efforts to curb a surge in coronavirus cases.... AP NEWS

ZAGREB, Croatia — Citizens of Croatia’s capital city have been lining up for free rapid antigen testing that has been introduced as part of efforts to curb a surge in coronavirus cases.

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COVID-19 shots could reach first Americans by mid-December, top health official says

Mon, 2020-11-23 09:30 — mike kraft

COVID-19 shots could reach first Americans by mid-December, top health official says U.S. healthcare workers and others recommended for the nation's first COVID-19 inoculations could start getting shots within a day or two of regulatory consent next month, a top official of the government's vaccine development effort said on Sunday. Doina Chiacu U.S.

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AstraZeneca says COVID-19 'vaccine for the world' can be 90% effective

Mon, 2020-11-23 09:19 — mike kraft

AstraZeneca says COVID-19 'vaccine for the world' can be 90% effective AstraZeneca said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine could be around 90% effective, giving the world's fight against the global pandemic a new weapon, cheaper to make, easier to distribute and faster to scale-up than rivals. Kate Holton, Josephine Mason, Kate Kelland U.S.

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A shortage of physicians with experience treating hospitalized patients could threaten the next surge response

Sun, 2020-11-22 20:39 — mike kraft

A shortage of doctors with experience treating hospitalized patients looms Fewer than half of U.S. physicians treat hospitalized patients. That could pose hospital staffing problems as Covid-19 cases surge. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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Upper Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island heading for COVID-19 restrictions: Cuomo

Sun, 2020-11-22 20:08 — mike kraft

Upper Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island heading for COVID-19 Upper Manhattan, parts of Staten Island and Long Island are set to land back into restrictive COVID-19 zones this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Sunday. New York Post

Upper Manhattan and parts of Staten Island and Long Island are set to land back into restrictive COVID-19 zones this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Sunday.

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Public health expert: Americans no longer acting 'with common purpose' on pandemic

Sun, 2020-11-22 12:25 — mike kraft

Public health expert: Americans no longer acting 'with common The director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Sunday said that the current wave of coronavirus cases is worse because Americans are not “acting with common purpose” the way they were in th Zack Budryk TheHill

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Washington Post new analysis shows that communities of color continue to die from the coronavirus at much higher rates than Whites.

Sun, 2020-11-22 12:09 — mike kraft

‘I just pray God will help me’: Racial, ethnic minorities reel from higher covid-19 death rates While overall fatality rates have plummeted since the spring, experts say many of the deaths in minority communities are preventable. Dan Keating, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Gabriel Florit, Chris Alcantara Washington Post

.... Nearly nine months after the virus exploded in the United States, and amid big treatment strides, the disease continues to ravage African American and other minority communities with a particular vengeance.

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