Germany swears in new Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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Here’s how much money Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson could make from COVID vaccines
US has surpassed 29 million COVID-19 cases, 525,000 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Over 92 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered across the United States as of Monday, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are currently three vaccines approved by the CDC and the…
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UK Warns of Big Omicron Risk
The UK Health Security Agency predicts that Omicron was likely to overtake Delta and become the dominant variant in that country. Ever since the Omicron variant first appeared around Thanksgiving, the U.S. government has been cautious but largely optimistic. While often caveating that we must remain vigilant and that much remains to be seen when…
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$1.79 billion needed to help Venezuelan refugees and migrants
The increasing needs of refugees and migrants from Venezuela have worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic, say UN rights experts. The number of Venezuelans worldwide who’ve gone on the run has now topped six million, with the vast majority hosted by countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and migration agency…
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Senate rejects Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses
WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday to nullify the Biden administration’s requirement that businesses with 100 or more workers have their employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing. The vote was 52-48. The Democratic-led House is unlikely to take the measure up, which means the mandate would stand,…
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Olaf Scholz prepares to mandate COVID-19 vaccination as Germany’s fourth wave deepens
Sitting alone in a blacked-out studio, a somber soundtrack lending gravitas to his five-minute monologue, Olaf Scholz implored the people of Germany to get real and get vaccinated. A full year after the first COVID-19 shots were administered and the world hoped to turn the corner on the pandemic, Germany finds itself overwhelmed by a…
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Germany finally has a government ready to lead Europe
The ‘Merkel brake’ that held up progress on the rule of law is now finally off. Guy Verhofstadt is a member of the European Parliament. He is the former leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and a former prime minister of Belgium. Europe is born from crisis situations, or so the…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 3 December 2021
Greetings from Tyler, All the authorities are holding out the prospect of extreme mandates on the news of the new variant. They’re not sure about anything, but stand by. It’s liable to confer all power to our tormentors. Maybe it depends upon where you get your information, but we’re hearing that some of those infected…
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Japan’s Covid-19 deaths lowest in 16 months as cases plummet
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – In the world’s oldest nation, less than one person a day is dying from COVID-19. The six confirmed deaths in Japan over the past week is the lowest it’s been in the country since July 2020, before the second wave of pandemic fatalities. Compared with other developed nations, such as Germany or…
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US hiring stumbles in November as economy adds just 210,000 new jobs
Economists expected payrolls to increase by 550,000 in November. U.S. job growth significantly undershot expectations in November, suggesting that difficulty in attracting new workers is weighing on the labor market’s recovery from the pandemic, even as COVID-19 cases dissipated nationwide. The Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday that payrolls in November…
