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OVERVIEW: RUssia tightens curbs, developments in Asia, South Pacific, Latin America

Wed, 2021-06-23 18:33 — mike kraft

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Russia has tightened curbs in major cities as authorities blame the new Delta variant for spiking cases and deaths, while neighbouring Ukraine has registered its first two cases of the more infectious virus type. Reuters Reuters

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More than 150 Houston hospital workers fired, resign over COVID-19 vaccine

Tue, 2021-06-22 21:39 — mike kraft

Houston hospital workers fired, resign over COVID-19 vaccine DALLAS (AP) — More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement. AP NEWS

DALLAS (AP) — More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement.

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Asian-Pacific countries, lagging in jabs, still rely on supression tactics

Tue, 2021-06-22 21:00 — mike kraft

The Countries Stuck in Coronavirus Purgatory Much of Asia cannot (or will not) yet get jabbed, so the region is still having to rely on suppression tactics. Timothy McLaughlin The Atlantic

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New book: Inside the Trump Administration's Reesponse to the Pandemic

Tue, 2021-06-22 20:19 — mike kraft

New book offers fresh details about chaos, conflicts inside Trump’s pandemic response At one point, the president mused about repatriating infected Americans in Asia to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Dan Diamond Washington Post

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Biden urges young adults to get shots; variant concern grows

Tue, 2021-06-22 18:59 — mike kraft

Biden urges shots for young adults as variant concern grows WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as the White House acknowledges it will miss two key vaccination benchmarks and as concern grows about the spread of a new variant that threatens to set the country back in the months ahead. AP NEWS

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White House confirms administration likely to miss its vaccination goal. y

Tue, 2021-06-22 18:46 — mike kraft

Biden administration likely to miss July 4 vaccine target as new Covid strain surges The setback comes amid a drop in the nation’s vaccination rate and difficulties in convincing younger Americans in particular to seek out the shot. POLITICO

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OPINION: It's not only politics behind the low vaccination rate in the South

Tue, 2021-06-22 12:32 — mike kraft

Opinion: It's not only politics that's driving the low vaccination rate in the South The pandemic dramatically revealed the inequitable delivery of American health care. Now, the Covid-19 vaccine rollout is demonstrating another open secret: public distrust in all institutions, including health care, writes Dr. Kent Sepkowitz. Opinion by Kent Sepkowitz CNN

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Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies

Tue, 2021-06-22 11:50 — mike kraft

FRESNO, Calif. — On a Tuesday afternoon in April, among tables of vegetables, clothes and telephone chargers at Fresno’s biggest outdoor flea market were prescription drugs being sold as treatments for Covid.

Vendors sold $25 injections of the steroid dexamethasone, several kinds of antibiotics and the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — the malaria drugs pushed by President Donald J. Trump last year — make regular appearances at the market as well, as do sham herbal supplements.

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