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Schools are closing for millions of kids as teachers get sick and COVID cases surge. Some districts are holding out.

Fri, 2020-11-20 13:47 — mike kraft

Schools are closing for millions of kids as teachers get sick and COVID cases surge. Some districts are holding out. Even if their local COVID case rates are high, some schools plan to stay open. But as more teachers are sick or quarantined, that has become difficult Erin Richards and Elinor Aspegren USA TODAY

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Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so

Fri, 2020-11-20 11:40 — mike kraft

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in confirmed COVID-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country to do so amid concerns about the lingering physical and psychological scars on... AP NEWS

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Southern Europe rues exodus of doctors, nurses as coronavirus surges

Fri, 2020-11-20 11:32 — mike kraft

Southern Europe rues exodus of doctors, nurses as coronavirus surges Thirty-year-old Pep Iglesies emigrated to Canada from Spain in August for a new job that is much like his old one – taking care of coronavirus patients and working as a cardiologist. Joan Faus, Angelo Amante U.S.

BARCELONA/ROME (Reuters) - Thirty-year-old Pep Iglesies emigrated to Canada from Spain in August for a new job that is much like his old one – taking care of coronavirus patients and working as a cardiologist.

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US seeing unprecedented coronavirus spread, White House said

Fri, 2020-11-20 11:22 — mike kraft

US seeing unprecedented coronavirus spread, White House says The US is seeing the fastest spread yet of Covid-19, the White House Coronavirus Task Force said in its first public briefing in four months on Thursday. Maggie Fox, CNN CNN

(CNN) The United States is seeing the fastest spread yet of the coronavirus, the White House Coronavirus Task Force said in its first public briefing in four months on Thursday.

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Crushed by COVID-19, rural red states finally start to mandate masks. It may be too little, too late.

Fri, 2020-11-20 11:10 — mike kraft

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ANALYSIS: The U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been. Why Aren’t We Acting Like It?

Fri, 2020-11-20 10:55 — mike kraft

The U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been. Why Aren’t We Acting Like It? Americans’ reactions to the pandemic have become increasingly divorced from the reality of it Time

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Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows

Thu, 2020-11-19 17:28 — mike kraft

Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace’s nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection. He died a horrible death anyway. Hale and happy before the pandemic, the... AP NEWS

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Yahoo obtains some COVIS information Biden says the White House won't provide

Thu, 2020-11-19 13:22 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden blasted the Trump administration Wednesday for refusing to share information needed to help his incoming team battle the coronavirus pandemic, including data on supplies in the national stockpile.

“We’ve been unable to get access to the kinds of things we need to know about the depths of the stockpiles,” he said during a roundtable with frontline health workers. “We know there’s not much at all.”

A copy of those stockpile numbers — dated Nov. 16 — was provided to Yahoo News, which is publishing them. The numbers appear to show progress in some areas, such as in the stockpile of N95 respirators and ventilators, but also makes clear that earlier Trump administration promises to bolster the stockpile have fallen short.

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