Last week, YouTube released a recent video in which Governor Ron Desantis spoke to his experts, citing concerns about misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. DeSantis held a new discussion on Monday. Two local doctors disputed some of the allegations made during the trial. The chamber was largely the same group of doctors that DeSantis had at a roundtable in March. …
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11 US states have already vaccinated 50% of adults with at least one dose of vaccine, CDC data show
On Jan. 1 in Houston, Texas, a patient was seen lying in bed in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the United Memorial Medical Center. Go to Nakamura / Getty images Racial and ethnic minority groups had higher hospitalization rates for Covid-19 and sought greater emergency care than whites, according to two new studies published Monday in the U.S. Centers …
Read More »Impairment of Covid’s disease, leading to a “completely new category” of organ transplants
In a year when Covid-19 shattered the pleas of so many praying for miracles, a man from Georgia with two new lungs was among the lucky ones. Mark Buchanan of Roopville received a lung transplant in October, almost three months after Covid-19 left him hospitalized and reassured, first on a ventilator and then on a final treatment known as ECMO. …
Read More »Prince Harry looks just like Grandpa Prince Philip in his 30s
With his thick red beard, blue eyes, and cheeky smile, the fragile soldier could be Prince Harry. But the main star of this vintage cover of Paris Match magazine is actually his grandfather Prince Philip, 36 years old. Royal photographer Chris Jackson first noticed the striking resemblance between the duo after discovering a copy of a 1957 French magazine featuring …
Read More »Biden is “absolutely” ready to negotiate with Republicans on the bill, Psaki said
President Biden’s claim that he wants bipartisan cooperation on important legislation is not just a show, White House spokesman Jen Psaki said Monday, insisting he was ready to work with Republicans on his huge spending bill. GOP lawmakers have criticized Biden’s US $ 2 trillion plan and its wide scope, but Psaki told a news briefing that neither was set …
Read More »Biden is holding on to Trump’s chosen Moscow ambassador
John Sullivan has been at work for nearly a year and a half. Administration officials see it as a stable hand, while the administration is stepping up pressure on Russia to take action to undermine the United States and democratic values. President Joe Biden is still deciding on other ambassadorial posts, and the White House said Monday that the president …
Read More »An elite detachment of the Syrian regime dumps chlorine in a city held by rebels by helicopter
A report by a chemical weapons observer concludes that a helicopter controlled by Syria’s elite military unit, the Tiger, dropped a chlorine cylinder on the rebel-held city of Sarakib in February 2018. “There are reasonable grounds to believe that at approximately 9:22 p.m., on February 4, 2018, during ongoing attacks on Sarakib, a Syrian Arab Air Force helicopter-controlled military helicopter …
Read More »Body camera released with fatal shooting of a black man in Minneapolis
The guardian Minnesota police shooting of Down Wright: what we know so far Wright shot and killed by police after being stopped for violating traffic rules at a Brooklyn center near Minneapolis Protesters took to the streets after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop by members of the police at the Brooklyn Center on Sunday. …
Read More »Prince Harry quarantined in his and Megan Markle’s Frogmore Cottage before Prince Philip’s funeral: report
Prince Harry is in the UK for the first time in more than a year and is isolated in familiar neighborhoods before the funeral of his grandfather Prince Philip on Saturday. The 36-year-old Duke of Sussex arrived in his homeland from California on Sunday and, according to People magazine, was quarantined at Frogmore Cottage, where he lived with his wife …
Read More »Bhutan vaccinates 93% of eligible adults in less than 2 weeks: Coronavirus updates: NPR
A health worker vaccinates a Buddhist monk sitting in front of a portrait of Bhutan’s King Jigme Hesar Namgel Wangchuk at a high school in Bhutan on March 27, the first day of the country’s vaccination campaign. Less than two weeks later, health officials said that 93% of eligible adults received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Upasana Dahal / …
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