Frustration grows with 90 million Americans holding out on vaccine
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As COVID-19 reaches rural India, “people are dropping dead like flies”
Gasping for breath Reuters/Adnan ABIDI On the evening of April 23, Dhanraj Singh, a 40-year blind man, arrived at the Sikanderpur community health centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, complaining of breathlessness. Singh, a resident of the nearby Bansi Bazar village, was running a temperature too. According to the doctor who attended to him,…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 5 March 2021
Greetings from Tyler, Everybody’s supposed to feel a lot better, now that thousands of unaccompanied minors are flooding across the border. Apparently they’re given money (Bill O’Reilly said eleven hundred dollars) and allowed to travel wherever they see fit in the United States to await a hearing they’ll not attend. Extended family is waiting somewhere…
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Scientists Demand New COVID-19 Probe After WHO Investigation Compromised By Chinese Communist Party.
An international group of scientists called for a new investigation into the origins of COVID-19 over fears the current probe is compromised by the Chinese Communist Party. “We wish to raise public awareness of the fact that half of the joint team convened under that process is made of Chinese citizens whose scientific independence may…
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Ron Johnson forces reading of 628-page Senate coronavirus relief bill on floor
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is forcing Senate floor staff to read the entire Democratic coronavirus relief bill, a maneuver that could take up to 10 hours and will delay a final vote on the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) formally offered the 628-page Senate bill on Thursday after an initial vote to take up House-passed legislation, which is being used as…
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Germany Changes Corona Rules, Announces Several ‘Reopening Steps’
Angela Merkel and her colleagues from the capitals in Germany’s sixteen federal states adopted a new strategy in regard to the Corona rules. A complicated list of ‘reopening steps’ was introduced. Berlin, March 4th, 2021 (The Berlin Spectator) — Exactly 400 days after the first Coronavirus infection was reported in Germany, the country got a new…
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EU leaders’ vaccine sniping backfires
The eyes of the world have been on Britain’s vaccination programme in recent months, as the UK government embarked on a dramatic push to get our population inoculated by prioritizing first doses. During this time, the naysayers have been plentiful – with some UK commentators and plenty of politicians abroad keen to cast doubt over…
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Argentinians protest over COVID-19 vaccine scandal
Thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Argentina on Saturday to protest the “VIP vaccinations” scandal that forced the health minister to resign. Gines Gonzalez Garcia quit a week ago at the president’s request after it emerged that his friends had been able to skip the line for coronavirus inoculation. Protesters carrying signs reading “Give me my…
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Covid vaccine passports are being considered. And health experts and rights groups are deeply concerned
KEY POINTS The U.S., U.K. and European Union are among those considering whether to introduce a digital passport that will allow citizens to show they have been vaccinated against Covid-19. It is thought some form of certificate system could help stimulate an economic recovery as countries prepare to relax public health measures over the coming…
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House Republicans say Biden immigration bill will cause ‘catastrophe’ on Mexico border
Led by Rep. James Comer, 19 Republicans asked the Biden administration to take a tougher stance on the US-Mexico border.Greg Nash/Pool via AP House Republicans on Friday asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to take a tougher approach on the US-Mexico border to “prevent the impending catastrophe” they say is coming due to President Biden’s new…
