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States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By Covid-19

Sat, 2021-01-02 17:34 — mike kraft

Battered by a wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, local jails and state prison systems around the United States have resorted to a drastic strategy to keep the virus at bay: Shutting down completely and transferring their inmates elsewhere.

From California to Missouri to Pennsylvania, state and local officials say that so many guards have fallen ill with the virus and are unable to work that abruptly closing some correctional facilities is the only way to maintain community security and prisoner safety.

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Coronavirus: Israel leads in giving vaccnations, India hold national drill

Sat, 2021-01-02 12:39 — mike kraft

Coronavirus: Israel leads vaccine race with 12% given jab With more than 1m people inoculated, Israel has by far the highest vaccination rate in the world. BBC News

Israel has given vaccinations against coronavirus to more than one million people, the highest rate in the world, as global immunisation efforts step up.

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Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals tribal distrust in U.S.

Sat, 2021-01-02 11:51 — mike kraft

Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals tribal distrust FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The news came during a hopeful time on the largest Native American reservation. Daily coronavirus cases were in the single digits, down from a springtime peak of 238... AP NEWS

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The news came during a hopeful time on the largest Native American reservation.

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UK Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses

Sat, 2021-01-02 11:42 — mike kraft

Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses Medics are starting to see “whole wards of children” suffering from Covid for the first time during the pandemic, a senior nurse has warned. Laura Duffell, a matron at King’s College Hospital, London, said the new strain of Covid was affecting children and younger adults with no underlying health conditions in worrying numbers. She said: “It’s very different. That’s what makes it so much scarier for us as doctors, nurses and porters and everyone else who is working on the front line.

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Update: Third state identifies more transmissible variant as U.S. cases surpass 20 million

Fri, 2021-01-01 19:42 — mike kraft

Coronavirus updates: Third state identifies more transmissible variant as U.S. cases surpass 20 million Florida's identification of a case of the coronavirus variant, first detected in the U.K., is a reminder that the pandemic remains strong as a new year begins. Marisa Iati, Reis Thebault Washington Post

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US debates whether UK approach is better on COVID-19 vaccinations

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:20 — mike kraft

US debates whether UK approach is better on COVID-19 vaccinations A new approach to COVID-19 vaccination just adopted in the United Kingdom is gaining traction in America, but is dividing public health experts. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

A new approach to COVID-19 vaccination just adopted in the United Kingdom is gaining traction in America, but is dividing public health experts.

In an effort to push out as many doses of the vaccine as possible, British officials will no longer hold back the second of two doses.

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Food banks fear possible end of USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:02 — mike kraft

Food banks fear possible end of USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program The program, which sent more than a 100 million boxes of fresh food to families straight from food distributors, was part of a Covid-19 relief program that might not continue in 2021. NBC News

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It'll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the tide of the pandemic in the US, experts say

Fri, 2021-01-01 10:42 — mike kraft

It'll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the course of the pandemic in the US, experts say As the US ushered in 2021, more than 125,300 Covid-19 patients remained hospitalized -- another record for the fourth day in a row. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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OPINION: Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases

Thu, 2020-12-31 14:57 — mike kraft

Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other deadly diseases - STAT As the pandemic rips across the world, other debilitating and deadly diseases are left undiagnosed and untreated. We're facing a syndemic. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill

Thu, 2020-12-31 12:35 — mike kraft

Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing home. She knew something was wrong. Fearing the... AP NEWS

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing home. She knew something was wrong.

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