Above Photo: Volunteers with Southern Solidarity’s New York team pause for a photo while handing out supplies to the city’s unhoused folks. When you’re unsure where your next meal is coming from, COVID-19 isn’t usually your top priority “Once the pandemic hit, it was very clear that nothing was going to be done to support the unhoused people in the area who were not able to use the bathrooms, not able to get food anywhere—not even the leftovers they used to pick up off the street. They didn’t have access to information, so I started gathering donations and asking for support, […]
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Pandemic Transforms People Into Voting Rights Activists October 28, 2020 Pandemic Transforms People Into Voting Rights Activists2020-10-282020-10-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/dropbox.png200px200px Above photo: A voter places their ballot in a curbside ballot drop box to help prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the Maryland U.S. presidential primary election as other voters stand in a long line waiting to cast their votes in College Park, Maryland, U.S., June 2, 2020. Reuters/Jim Bourg. Fear of the novel coronavirus has cast some Americans into an unfamiliar role: litigants in an unprecedented wave of court battles over voting procedures. For Regina Root, 53, the journey to suing […]
The Future Of Pandemic Solidarity By Colectiva Sembrar, Red Pepper. October 25, 2020 The Future Of Pandemic Solidarity2020-10-252020-10-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/pandemic-solidarity.jpg200px200px Above photo: Favela de Mare in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Davi Marcos. The pandemic has channelled our collective rage and constructed new visions of what is possible. In their recent book Pandemic Solidarity, Colectiva Sembrar (Sowing Seeds Collective) collected first-hand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in our time of global crisis. Red Pepper interviewed members of the collective – carla bergman (she doesn’t capitalise her name), Seyma Ozdemir, Nancy Piñeiro, Emre Sahin and Marina Sitrin […]
An illustration from the May 26, 1882 issue of the San Francisco Illustrated Wasp depicts three ghoulish figures called malarium, smallpox and leprosy and one holding a sash that says “Chinatown.” (NMAH) The Long History of Blaming Immigrants in Times of Sickness “Fear and Scapegoating during a Pandemic” kicked off “Pandemic Perspectives: Stories Through Collections,” a twice-monthly online panel discussion organized by the curators and historians @amhistorymuseum. https://t.co/OosRSeBnda — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) October 19, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The xenophobia that has come from the COVID-19 pandemic was here long before we experienced the the current pandemic. How many times can […]
A worker at Thinova Magnet Co., Ltd. puts rare earth magnets into a press at a factory in Zhejiang province. Emily Feng/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR A worker at Thinova Magnet Co., Ltd. puts rare earth magnets into a press at a factory in Zhejiang province. Emily Feng/NPR China posted 4.9% economic growth in its third quarter as compared to the same period last year, keeping it on track to be the only major global economy to record an economic expansion this year in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Economists estimate China’s yearly GDP growth could be […]
MIAMI—Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a line of at least 50 men and women snaked from the entrance of Tootsie’s Cabaret to the sidewalk lining the perimeter of the massive strip club in Miami Gardens, a small city in South Florida that has clocked nearly 5,000 coronavirus cases since the coronavirus pandemic began. Two Miami Gardens police cars directed traffic to a satellite parking lot because Tootsie’s main lot was completely full. Less than 24 hours earlier, Tootsie’s owners had won a court injunction at least temporarily nullifying Miami-Dade County’s 12 a.m. curfew. The party was just getting started. Johnny Fernandez, […]
This article was reported for ENEMY Magazine, a new print magazine and newsletter dedicated to reporting on abuses of power in news deserts and underrepresented communities across the United States. Subscribe to ENEMY here. Over the years, Sophia* built up a dependable set of regulars. Sex work paid “enough to survive more than comfortably” and it was work she preferred over jobs she’d had in the past, like working in restaurants or warehouses. Those jobs, she said, were “much more labor intensive for quite a lot less pay.” But when news of the coronavirus first began to circulate in January, business […]
For a decade, growing American gas production has fueled a petrochemical boom. There are big plans for more plants in Appalachia, but the pandemic — and an oversupply of plastics — may crush them. (Image credit: Reid Frazier/The Allegheny Front) Source link
The diagnosis — delivered at a distance of 6 feet in the doctor’s office — was a shock. It brought back memories of my work in the Ebola ward. Then as now, an intimate touch was a rare thing. (Image credit: Frank Huster for NPR) Source link
IMF Seizes On Pandemic For Privatization In 81 Countries By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. October 16, 2020 IMF Seizes On Pandemic For Privatization In 81 Countries2020-10-162020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/priva.jpg200px200px Above photo: A demonstrator holds a banner against International Monetary Fund during a protest in Quito, Ecuador, May 18, 2020. Dolores Ochoa. Editing by MintPress News. 76 of the 91 loans the IMF has negotiated since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic come attached with demands for deep cuts to public services and policies that benefit corporations over people. The enormous economic dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to fundamentally alter […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. As these last weeks have brought the first crop of scripted TV shows that directly tackle the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to watch the coronavirus pandemic unfold on screen as much as I want a case of the… well, I feel like there’s a taste level here I’m about to cross. But you understand what I’m saying. There’s a certain […]
Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters near Hong Kong and Macau as a result of halted marine traffic in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes due to the coronavirus pandemic. As the impact of the pandemic has halted ferries, the beautiful marine creatures seem to be thriving. However, scientists still remain deeply concerned about their long-term survival in the Pearl River Delta region despite the hopeful signs, reports the Bangkok Post. The region comprises a number of mainland Chinese cities, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. The […]
Daily Beast: The Trump administration has appointed two political operatives to posts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an attempt to control the messaging on the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press reports. President Trump’s assertion that 85% of mask-wearers get coronavirus is false. The CDC said this interpretation of a recent report is incorrect. We followed both town halls tonight. See all of our fact checks here. https://t.co/locXrMNxNF pic.twitter.com/u1O4lYm7ck — The New York Times (@nytimes) October 16, 2020 The appointees arrived on the job without clear assignments or even offices before Nina Witkofsky was named acting chief of […]
More than 700 Americans die each day of COVID-19. If case counts continue to rise into the winter, that number could nearly triple, one forecast projects. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images More than 700 Americans die each day of COVID-19. If case counts continue to rise into the winter, that number could nearly triple, one forecast projects. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Coronavirus cases are rising rapidly in many states as the U.S. heads into the winter months. And forecasters predict staggering growth in infections and deaths if current trends continue. It’s […]
Swiss authorities have voiced their concern about two sing-along yodeling concerts attended by 600 fans of the traditional singing that are now known to have been superspreader COVID-19 events that have turned a small Swiss canton into a hot spot as a second wave of the pandemic sweeps Europe. People who attended the indoor performances in late September in the Schwyz canton were advised to socially distance, but not required to wear masks that would have impeded their yodeling. The small village area now has a positivity rate of 50 percent (meaning half of all tests come back positive), making it […]
Less than a week after pockets of Hasidic Brooklyn erupted in response to new COVID-19 restrictions shuttering schools and other institutions in highly infected areas, the Bet Yaakov Ateret Torah yeshiva has its doors open and parents’ cars lining up on Coney Island Avenue to drop off and collect students on the same old 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. schedule. Starting around 2:30 p.m., kids’ voices fill the fenced yard of trailers parked alongside the religious school’s main brick compound, and vehicles pull into a back lot or collect their children at the front gates. Multiple neighbors told The Daily Beast […]
GREENSBORO, N.C.—When he arrived at the polls to vote for the first time on Thursday, Ricardo Lopez-Salazar was on edge. “On the way over here I was kind of nervous,” Lopez-Salazar, an 18-year old student at Guilford Technical Community College, told The Daily Beast. Soon enough, a Republican poll observer stared directly at him, just days after Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to show up early and often at polling places across America. Under North Carolina law, each party is allowed to have up to two observers in each polling place. Dianne Doughty, a Guilford County GOP volunteer, told The Daily […]
As the University of Miami campus filled up again for an uncertain new school year last month, a group of students, faculty, and on-campus workers acted out a grim warning. On Sept. 4, demonstrators lay on the ground as if dead, some of them holding tombstones, while a Birkenstock-clad person in a grim reaper costume patrolled the scene. The protesters were targeting what they said were unsafe working conditions for staff and faculty amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Students have the option of learning remotely.) But they soon experienced a second scare: Despite all participants wearing masks, the university had managed to […]
Being a mom is challenging enough. Add the pressures of a pandemic — and how do you cope? Mothers in Jordan, the Netherlands and Wisconsin share their stories and strategies. (Image credit: Nadia Bseiso, Julia Gunther and Lauren Justice for NPR) Source link
Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly on Tuesday halted one of two trials of a major new novel coronavirus therapy after independent safety monitors observed an unspecified problem with the testing. The Data Safety Monitoring Board froze trials of the Indiana company’s monoclonal antibody drug bamlanivimab, which was being administered in combination with the antiviral drug remdesivir. The board didn’t freeze separate trials testing bamlanivimab on its own, and the move doesn’t mean the company’s drug is unsound. But it does raise a slew of new questions about an antibody treatment that has been aggressively flogged by Donald Trump, who took a similar […]
Amid the pandemic, Americans are experiencing sleeplessness, headaches, stomach upset and more symptoms of chronic stress. Robin Utrecht/LightRocket via Gett hide caption toggle caption Robin Utrecht/LightRocket via Gett Amid the pandemic, Americans are experiencing sleeplessness, headaches, stomach upset and more symptoms of chronic stress. Robin Utrecht/LightRocket via Gett In late March, shortly after New York state closed nonessential businesses and asked people to stay home, Ashley Laderer began waking each morning with a throbbing headache. “The pressure was so intense it felt like my head was going to explode,” recalls the 27-year-old freelance writer from Long Island. She tried spending less […]
Donald Trump may be feuding with Dr. Anthony Fauci. But at least, as Trevor Noah put it Tuesday night, the president did get “a very real endorsement from another top scientist” this week. The Daily Show host was referring to Eric Trump, who appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday and boasted about the “vaccine” that supposedly saved his father’s life. “It goes to speak how good some of these vaccines that are being created are and what my father’s done on the vaccine front no one could have done,” the president’s deeply confused son told host Jonathan Karl. “My […]
Students Create Free Tutoring Services To Help During The Pandemic October 13, 2020 Students Create Free Tutoring Services To Help During The Pandemic2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/tutor-e1602619153812.jpg200px200px Above photo: A group that includes Annette Yuan, a junior at Irvine High, has expanded beyond Southern California and now tutors students from Seattle to Toronto. StudySmart Youth Services. Alex Yan and Arvin Ding, seniors at Irvine’s Portola High School, have held free weekly in-person tutoring sessions for elementary and middle school students since they started their organization Math at the Library in 2017. When COVID-19 hit, their team of high schoolers quickly transitioned to online tutoring and later […]
The number of people dying from COVID-19 since May 10th, is on average 50% higher than every other country in the study, adjusting for population size. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images The number of people dying from COVID-19 since May 10th, is on average 50% higher than every other country in the study, adjusting for population size. Spencer Platt/Getty Images During this pandemic, people in the United States are currently dying at rates unparalleled elsewhere in the world. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that over the last 5 months […]
MOSCOW 13 (Sputnik) – The French authorities have cancelled the Paris International Agricultural Show 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the RTL radio broadcaster reported on Tuesday. According to the media outlet, the 58th agricultural exhibition, which was to be held from 27 February to 7 March of the next year, has been postponed to 2022. Regional agricultural competitions and farmers’ markets will still take place despite the event’s cancellation. The Paris International Agricultural Show has been held annually in the French capital since 1964. This year, the event finished a day earlier because of the pandemic. It was attended by […]
Chairs are stacked outside a restaurant in Montreal on Sept. 29 as the Quebec government orders restaurants, bars and casinos to close for 28 days effective midnight Sept. 30, after a recent spike in new daily coronavirus cases. Christinne Muschi/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Christinne Muschi/Reuters Chairs are stacked outside a restaurant in Montreal on Sept. 29 as the Quebec government orders restaurants, bars and casinos to close for 28 days effective midnight Sept. 30, after a recent spike in new daily coronavirus cases. Christinne Muschi/Reuters Among the enormous burdens of fending off the coronavirus pandemic, many countries closed whole sectors […]
An 89-year-old Dutch woman is the first confirmed case of a person dying from a COVID-19 reinfection, according to the Oxford University Press. The woman had a relatively easy first infection, in which she spent five days in the hospital earlier this year exhibiting mild symptoms including a fever and cough and testing positive for the coronavirus. Her symptoms subsided, with the exception of chronic fatigue, and she tested negative. Two months after her first infection, and two days after starting a round of chemotherapy treatment for a rare type of bone marrow cancer called Waldenstrom’s disease, she tested positive for […]
ATLANTA—Cynthia Robinson had her mind made up. The 72-year-old Clayton County resident was determined her vote be counted, so heading to the polls at 7:55 a.m. on the first day of early voting in Georgia was practically a no-brainer. “I did not trust the absentee ballot in this particular election,” she told The Daily Beast from her precinct in Jonesboro two hours later. “I’ve always voted early and in person. I knew it was a COVID issue, but I was willing to take my chances.” Early voting in Georgia on Monday was marred by technical glitches, with some voters at a […]
Late last month, Arizona State University placed dozens of students and four Greek chapters on interim suspension, pending an investigation of their alleged violations of COVID-19 safety protocols. The photos displayed in a local news broadcast that night—dozens of students packed together, maskless, on a boat; sorority sisters packing together for rush week—were shocking. But even more surprising was the revelation that they hadn’t been unearthed by a school administrator or the campus newspaper, but by an anonymous student Twitter account known as “ASUcovidTracker.” The account, which has racked up more than 4,000 followers in the two months since it started, […]
He’s at it again. Nashville city officials are investigating a massive gathering of thousands of maskless worshippers who tightly packed onto a local courthouse’s steps Sunday night. It was the latest stop of a “Let Us Worship” tour by a controversial musician and religious activist who has drawn ire from leaders across the country for his take on pandemic-era faith. “We have worked very hard to slow the spread of COVID by taking a measured approach to protect the community,” Brian Todd, a spokesman for the Metro Public Health Department for the City of Nashville, told The Daily Beast in a […]
More than the half of French nurses are close to burning out due to the pressure the ongoing pandemic has put on the nation’s medical workers, who struggle with increased work and lack of holidays, a new survey indicates. Some 57 percent of France’s nurses have described their condition as “state of professional exhaustion” since the beginning of the pandemic, the national French nursing union has said, publishing results of a survey of nearly 60,000 nurses across the nation. Nearly half of the burnt-out nurses believe their exhaustion may be affecting their ability to perform their professional duties. They have been […]
As for so many of us, the past several months formed a season of loss for Wynton Marsalis. His father, pianist Ellis Marsalis—who Wynton described on his blog as “a humble man with a lyrical sound”—died on April 1, at 85, from complications of COVID-19. One of his clearest mentors, the writer and critic Stanley Crouch, died on Sept. 16, at 74. The celebrated trumpeter is, as are we all, caught in an extended period of estrangement—his last public performance with his orchestra was more than seven months ago. This new reality requires that Marsalis hustle harder and in new ways […]
When Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for COVID-19 before Donald Trump’s July Mount Rushmore speech, it seemed like the result came back just in the nick of time. She and her boyfriend, who happens to be the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., skipped the rally and were said to have avoided contact with the president. But the duo had already made a lasting impression in the northern plains, where earlier that week they had headlined a two-day Trump campaign event in Big Sky, Montana, potentially exposing locals and political donors to COVID-19—and leaving some to find out about it through the news. […]
On Friday night, Bill Maher kicked off the latest edition of his HBO show Real Time by addressing how President Trump got COVID-19—after doing pretty much everything in his power to get it. “I’m telling you, this getting COVID thing, not good for him,” said Maher. “The way he handled it, I think the final blow is that, you know what, we’ve seen that he gets treatment we would never get. He’s out after everything bragging, ‘Oh, I beat it.’ Yeah—with a team of doctors and experimental drugs. When Trump gets sick he goes to Walter Reed. The average American goes […]
Pandemic Could Push Up To 150 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ By 2021 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams. October 9, 2020 Pandemic Could Push Up To 150 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ By 20212020-10-092020-10-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/poverty.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man wears a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 in Manila, Philippines on March 18, 2020. Maria Tan via Getty Images. “Early evidence also suggests that the crisis is poised to increase inequality in much of the world,” says the new World Bank report. Amid findings that the combined wealth of the planet’s billionaires skyrocketed to $10.2 trillion during the coronavirus pandemic, the […]
Life is hard for everyone during a pandemic. But in a global crisis, it is women who carry extra burdens, says Raquel Lagunas, director of the gender team at the United Nations Development Programme. “Because of their reproductive role in society, they are ones taking care of the kids, the house, the food, the survival of families.” Over the span of three weeks in September and October, NPR photographed and interviewed 19 women around the world. They shared their challenges and fears — and how they are overcoming them. What we found is that despite the new stresses, women are drawing […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/04/1080664728_0:0:3073:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_f154682af50156751614b0a07a9eeb14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010091080718967-heavy-workload-in-citys-hospitals-due-to-pandemic-resurgence-paris-mayor-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Hospitals and intensive care facilities in the French capital of Paris have recently been heavily loaded by patients due to the renewed surge in COVID-19 in the country, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday. “This morning, at the Supervisory Board of @APHP [Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, hospital system in Paris]. On the agenda, the very tense situation in Paris hospitals and intensive care units, and the working conditions of staff hard hit by the epidemic, whose commitment I would like to salute once again,” Hidalgo wrote on Twitter. […]
Spain Unveils Economic Recovery Plan Amid Pandemic By Barry Hatton, AP News. October 8, 2020 Spain Unveils Economic Recovery Plan Amid Pandemic2020-10-082020-10-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/spain-scaled-e1602178818661.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Paul White/AP. NOTE: The details of the plan matter but it is a positive sign to see money being invested in a green economy. – MF Spain’s prime minister unveiled a major plan Wednesday to boost his country out of recession by spending 140 billion euros ($162 billion) of European Union aid to reshape the economy, with the aim of creating 800,000 jobs over the next three years. The program is a response to the sharp downturn […]
With just a few more weeks to go until Election Day, Jordan Klepper is still putting his life on the line to make fun of Trump supporters at the president’s increasingly irresponsible rallies. After checking out one of Trump’s infamous boat parades over the summer, the Daily Show correspondent strapped on his mask and headed to Pennsylvania where he trolled the parking lot outside Harrisburg International Airport for the most embarrassing people he could find. “On the day Donald Trump most likely contracted COVID at an event in the Rose Garden, he hosted another, slightly different kind of superspreader event,” Klepper […]
Activists Who Fought The AIDS Crisis On Organizing During A Pandemic By Loretta Graceffo, Waging Nonviolence. October 8, 2020 Activists Who Fought The AIDS Crisis On Organizing During A Pandemic2020-10-082020-10-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/actup-e1602192766554.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protestors in front of the James A. Shannon Building, National Institutes of Health, 1990. Donna Binder More than 30 years after ACT UP was founded, their bold activism in response to the AIDS crisis offers critical lessons for those mobilizing around COVID-19. During the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, Avram Finklestein was inundated by the blaring noise of ambulance sirens outside his apartment. “Just day and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105761/07/1057610789_0:285:5472:3363_1200x675_80_0_0_79823f32074cc2480ee3d19227cebedf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010081080709687-uk-banking-system-is-able-to-prop-up-economy-amid-covid-19-pandemic-bank-of-england-says-/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK banks are capable of providing support for the country’s businesses and households amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank of England said on Thursday. According to the UK central bank, the recent spike in the coronavirus infection and health measures introduced could undermine the already strained situation for many people. “Since the global financial crisis in 2008, we’ve taken actions to strengthen the UK financial system. As a result, UK banks are strong enough to keep supporting households and businesses through this difficult period,” the Bank of England said in a […]
The Indian economy nose-dived between April and June this year, with gross domestic product growth contracting 23.9 percent in the quarter that saw a strict lockdown due to the pandemic. In January – March this year, the country witnessed GDP growth of 3.1 percent. Maintaining that the South Asian economic situation is worse than ever, the World Bank on Thursday said India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to contract by 9.6% in the current financial year (April 2020 – March 2021) due to the national lockdown and pandemic shock. In its latest report – South Asia Economic Focus – released […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/08/1080703760_0:306:2934:1956_1200x675_80_0_0_95a9ed3d41260f469a35afa2a27d8105.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010081080703664-what-a-tremendous-opportunity-actress-jane-fonda-calls-covid-19-pandemic-gods-gift-to-the-left/ The administration of US President Donald Trump has been consistently criticized over its response to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has so far killed over 211,000 Americans and infected over 7.5 million people in the US alone, including Trump, his wife and many White House officials. American actress Jane Fonda characterized the coronavirus pandemic as “God’s gift to the left”, calling on Americans to use a “tremendous opportunity” and remove the Republican president, Donald Trump, in the 3 November US presidential election. She added that the country is currently at a […]
Scientists are sounding the alarm that, once Covid-19-related social distancing ends, the world’s children may face a new pandemic from a mutated old enemy which was once a leading cause of death for kids in the Western world. Scarlet fever, caused by the bacteria streptococcus pyogenes and considered as deadly as Covid-19, has made a recent resurgence in the UK, China, South Korea and Vietnam, with cases recorded in Australia and even New Zealand. UK case numbers have also quadrupled in recent years. Scarlet fever symptoms include chills, fever, sore throat, abdominal pain, a swollen tongue, red rash, and peeling skin. […]
On Tuesday night, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah took a break from clowning on first lady Melania Trump’s hatred of the White House Christmas to address the more serious news wafting from its walls: President Trump’s made-for-TV return to the White House, even though he is still battling the novel coronavirus (and surely contagious). Trump made a big show of his premature return from Walter Reed Medical Center—where he’d spent three days recuperating on supplemental oxygen, an experimental cocktail of antibodies, steroids, and various other treatments—standing proudly on the balcony of the White House and ripping off his mask for all […]
“You know, ladies and gentlemen, when Donald Trump first contracted the coronavirus, I thought that maybe, just maybe, he would emerge from this experience with a shred of humility,” Stephen Colbert said at the top of his Late Show monologue Tuesday night. “Because honestly, nothing would disarm his critics more than if he stood up and told the world, ‘I was wrong. I have learned my lesson. And I truly sympathize with the hundreds of thousands who have been gravely ill or lost their lives due to this pandemic.’” “But I forgot about one thing,” the host continued. “He never does […]
Health experts working with President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force are accusing White House officials of ignoring the guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as they try to stop the spread of the coronavirus within their complex. Over the last several days, Trump administration officials have attempted to quickly pull together a plan to mitigate the burgeoning outbreak in the White House. But as positive test results have poured in, officials have struggled to make decisions about who should be asked to work from home, whether White House personnel should wear protective masks and even if […]
American adults over 30 say they’re drinking 14% more often during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the journal JAMA Network Open. Luca Bruno/AP hide caption toggle caption Luca Bruno/AP American adults over 30 say they’re drinking 14% more often during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the journal JAMA Network Open. Luca Bruno/AP Perhaps it’s no surprise, but people are drinking more during the pandemic. In some cases, by a lot. American adults say they’re drinking 14% more often during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the journal JAMA Network Open. The increase in […]
Seth Meyers wasn’t the first late-night host to cover the massive coronavirus outbreak at the White House. But he may have had the most to say about it. The Late Night host dedicated his “A Closer Look” segment Monday night to everything that happened since President Donald Trump announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 early Friday morning. And he began with the president’s assurance that he’s learned from his experience. “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said in a video message from the hospital, adding, “This is the real school, this isn’t the ‘Let’s read the book’ […]
At San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church on Sunday morning, hundreds of maskless congregants sang and prayed, swaying together in the pews, babies and grandparents in close proximity. It might have been easy to forget there was a deadly pandemic blazing through the country. That is, until about 25 minutes into the sermon, when pastor Matt Hagee, on a stage bathed in blue light, announced that his father, the 80-year-old senior pastor and the church’s founder, John Hagee, had been diagnosed two days earlier with COVID-19. Hagee said during the Oct. 4 livestreamed service that his father “has been diligent throughout this entire […]
“It has been a genuinely extraordinary week for the White House,” said John Oliver at the top of Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight. There’s been so much chaos this past week that the HBO host said they didn’t have time to even address the $750 Trump paid in income tax for two years (as revealed by The New York Times), Melania Trump “essentially saying ‘fuck Christmas’” (recordings dropped by former Melania aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff), and Trump refusing to condemn the Proud Boys during the first presidential debate, telling the far-right anti-masturbation hate group to “stand back, and stand by.” All […]
On Sunday night, Desus & Mero, the most underrated late-night hosts in the game, opened their show with a round of laughter. “Trump got that ‘rona!” exclaimed The Kid Mero. The duo then filled their audience in on how President Trump and first lady Melania Trump came down with the novel coronavirus this week—and this after The New York Times revealed that Trump was not only financially underwater and a total fraud but had paid a measly $750 a year in federal income tax his first two years in office. (Trump is currently fighting the virus at Walter Reed National Military […]
Tribes Defend Themselves Against A Pandemic By Kalen Goodluck, High Country News. October 4, 2020 Tribes Defend Themselves Against A Pandemic2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/annahalverson-e1601823930320.jpg200px200px Above photo: Citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe man a checkpoint on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on May 10, 2020. Anna Halverson. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe’s COVID-19 checkpoints are at stake. As COVID-19 numbers soared across the country this spring, tribal nations began closing their reservation boundaries to non-residents. The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux erected checkpoints on roads entering their reservations in order to protect their citizens, even as the state […]
Cinema’s in the United Kingdom and Ireland have suffered amid the coronavirus pandemic has restrictions have led to a sharp drop in moviegoers as well as release delays for major titles. Cineworld will be shutting all 128 of its cinemas in the UK and Ireland, it has been reported by the Sunday Times. The UK’s biggest cinema chain will be issuing a letter to Boris Johnson and culture minister Oliver Dowden warning that the industry has become “unviable” due to film release delays, threatening almost 5,500 jobs. The chain warned last month that increased restrictions or film delays as a result […]
Saturday Night Live was presumably ready to kick off its 46th season with a big Trump vs. Biden debate sketch cold open. Then came the October surprise. Yes, SNL made its triumphant return to Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center this weekend amidst the still-raging coronavirus pandemic after airing a series of entirely virtual shows this past spring. And even though the debate feels like a “hundred years ago,” SNL stuck with the plan so they could highlight their new mega-guest star in the form of Jim Carrey as former Vice President Joe Biden. “Good evening, I’m your moderator Chris Wallace and […]
With 243 seats at stake, Bihar’s parliament is set to face an election on 28 October during the Covid-19 pandemic, with results out on 10 November. Stakes are high for both the ruling alliance of Janata Dal-United and Bharatiya Janata parties and on the other side Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress in a state well-known for caste-ridden politics. With blaring loudspeakers and colourful hoardings at the main crossroads in Bihar’s capital city Patna, electioneering has returned to the State despite widespread fear of contracting Covid-19 amid a surging caseload. The State is quickly gearing up for a crucial full-fledged legislative assembly […]
On Friday night, Jimmy Kimmel was one of the few late-night hosts on to address the total chaos that’s transpired in the last 24 hours—wherein the president, the first lady, several of their advisers, a number of Republican senators, a trio of White House journalists, and Kellyanne Conway all came down with COVID-19. President Trump is currently at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center under observation, where he’ll be hospitalized for the next several days. “Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any 2020ier…” offered Kimmel at the top of his show, adding, “He’s high-risk because of his age and his […]
The experimental drug President Trump received at the White House hours after being diagnosed with COVID-19 was provided under a “compassionate use” program usually reserved for patients who exhaust other treatment options, the manufacturer said Friday. News of the president consuming the so-called “polyclonal antibody cocktail,” made by New York-based pharma Regeneron, broke around the same time the administration announced Trump was being taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland for treatment. The therapy in question, which some developers refer to as “monoclonal,” combines two lab-grown proteins that attach to the spike proteins on the surface of the […]
Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic By Alice Herman, In These Times. October 2, 2020 Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/rest-e1601665058621.jpg200px200px Above photo: Augie’s Coffee, a coffee chain in the Inland Empire of California, laid off 54 employees during the pandemic only a week after workers announced they would unionize, leading employees to stage a strike in July. Members of the Augie’s Union are part of a growing number of movements, like the Pie Hole Workers Union, to organize restaurant workers. Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty mages. When workers at a pizza joint refused to train the people […]
It took about two full minutes from President Trump’s tweet confirming that he and Melania Trump had both tested positive for COVID-19 for the Twittersphere to go quite literally crazy with conspiracies. A number of Twitter users have pushed the theory that the president is “faking” the diagnosis to get out of any more disastrous debates or to distract the world from his $750 tax scandal. More sage posters, like author and self-described conspiracy theory debunker Mike Rothschild offered this, “The galaxy brain take is that Trump is faking COVID to get out of the debates or distract from the tax […]
In late October 2004, South Park aired one of its most iconic episodes—a pre-election installment called “Douche and Turd,” which crystallized the show’s nihilism, political and otherwise. The douche and turd were an on-the-nose symbol for the idea that in any given election, both politicians tend to be equally unappealing. But on Wednesday night, the long-running animated show defied its central tenet—the one insisting that caring at all is the stupidest position to take in any argument. And it did so in a way that one might imagine could perplex its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, in their younger years. […]
Aracely Diaz was at home with her husband and kids when the email arrived, announcing that Disney would lay off 28,000 workers. Diaz has worked as a housekeeper at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California for 19 years. So had her husband, Micael Diaz. The next morning, the couple woke up at 6:30 in the morning, got in their car, and sped north on the I-5 to Sacramento. “It was a shock—we weren’t expecting this,” the 48-year-old said in Spanish. “But we told our kids, ‘Hey, we’re going to go out there. We’re doing this because we want to fight for […]
India’s national carrier Air India is in severe financial crisis, prompting the government to seek bidders to buy a 100 percent stake in the 121-strong fleet. The full-service carrier is $8.3 billion in debt. Despite the bidding deadline being extended for the fourth time this year, experts point out why it may attract bidders this time. Founded by well-known Indian industrialist JRD Tata in 1932, and later taken over by the Indian government, Air India was a cause for pride and joy for the country. Since then, the carrier has gone from glory to financial burden on the exchequer. “The government […]
Bankruptcies in the New York City region have spiked by 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the same time period last year, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The pandemic has resulted in almost 6,000 business closures across all five New York City boroughs between March 1 and September 11. Around 4,000 of those businesses have closed permanently. Between March 16 and September 27, more than 600 businesses filed for bankruptcy in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York alone. According to Bloomberg, the city’s Department of Small Business Services has also received around 35,000 calls since June […]
The obstacles and hardships facing working mothers are not new, but the pandemic has given them more visibility. SDI Productions/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SDI Productions/Getty Images The obstacles and hardships facing working mothers are not new, but the pandemic has given them more visibility. SDI Productions/Getty Images Youli Lee is proud of the years she worked for the U.S. government, prosecuting cybercrime in some of the world’s darkest places. These days, she’s the one looking for places to hide out. “I just actually locked my door so that nobody could come here,” she says, from her bedroom. “I literally […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «The governments love pandemics. They love pandemics for the same reason they love war. It gives them the ability to impose controls on the population that the population would otherwise never accept—creating institutions and mechanisms for orchestrating and imposing obedience. «I will tell you something: it is a mystery to me, how all these big, important people like Bill Gates and Tony Fauci were planning and thinking about this pandemic for decades—planning it so that we would all be safe when the pandemic finally came. And yet, now that […]
The Covid-19 per-capita death rate in Israel is higher than that of the United States for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, that country’s military intelligence reported on Tuesday. Israel’s daily Covid-19-related death rate was 3.5 per million people compared to the US rate of 2.2 per million, according to task force, which is a part of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence Directorate. The daily deaths per capita are calculated by the task force as an average of the previous week. Israel also has a higher infection and mortality rate per million people than the US, France, […]
Stephannia Swain is a cook who was laid off as a result of the pandemic. COVID-19’s economic aftershocks have hit the hospitality industry especially hard. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY hide caption toggle caption Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Stephannia Swain is a cook who was laid off as a result of the pandemic. COVID-19’s economic aftershocks have hit the hospitality industry especially hard. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Stephannia Swain, 52, has had the same job for almost her entire adult life, cooking at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. “We only have six cooks and we’re all lifers,” she said. With 30 years of experience, Swain was the most […]
A new report by the World Bank reveals that Covid-19 delivered a “triple shock” to the developing East Asia and Pacific region, with as many as 38 million people expected to remain in, or be pushed back into, poverty as a result. It is the first increase in poverty in the region in two decades, according to the findings. The bank defined the poverty line as income of $5.50 a day. The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region includes China, Southeast Asian countries and the Pacific Islands, such as Fiji and Samoa. India and other South Asian countries don’t feature in the […]
The coronavirus has claimed more than 1 million lives around the globe, the latest dark ‘milestone’ for the worldwide pandemic first detected some 10 months ago, which continues to spread across several hotspots. Infecting more than 33 million since first emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December, the global Covid-19 death toll surpassed the 1 million mark on Monday night, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University. The news was met with a mournful statement from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which deemed the pandemic “one of the largest humanitarian catastrophes in […]
Nine months after the first reported fatality in China last January, the world has hit a sobering milestone. (Image credit: Andre Coelho/Getty Images) Source link
The Minnesota Twins celebrate being the American League Central Division Champions after the game against the Cincinnati Reds on September 27, 2020 in Minneapolis. Hannah Foslien/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hannah Foslien/Getty Images The Minnesota Twins celebrate being the American League Central Division Champions after the game against the Cincinnati Reds on September 27, 2020 in Minneapolis. Hannah Foslien/Getty Images For Major League Baseball, it’s on to the postseason. This year, that’s saying a lot. The sport wrapped up its regular season Sunday, and got through it without being in a protective bubble like other leagues. There were COVID-19 outbreaks […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $266 billion stimulus package on 12 May to help the economy and industries tide over the disruption caused by the COVID -19 pandemic. The country’s top bank, RBI, also pumped in liquidity worth $125 billion to maintain stability in the domestic financial markets. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the country’s economy will continue to face “challenges of different nature” with no clear-cut end date for the pandemic and no sure-shot vaccine against the coronavirus in sight. In an interview with The Indian Express, Sitharaman said uncertainty is laying in the mind of big […]
Each week, police in Lexington, Neb., cordon off several blocks near the edge of town, where roughly 700 cars will line up for USDA Farmers to Families food boxes. Above, volunteers organize boxes on Aug. 27, 2020. Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media hide caption toggle caption Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media Each week, police in Lexington, Neb., cordon off several blocks near the edge of town, where roughly 700 cars will line up for USDA Farmers to Families food boxes. Above, volunteers organize boxes on Aug. 27, 2020. Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media Lexington, Neb., is just one of the many rural communities that […]
Ja Nelle Pleasure relies on her garden for fresh fruits and vegetables. “Vegetables are expensive at the grocery store,” she says. Dana Cronin/Harvest Public Media hide caption toggle caption Dana Cronin/Harvest Public Media Ja Nelle Pleasure relies on her garden for fresh fruits and vegetables. “Vegetables are expensive at the grocery store,” she says. Dana Cronin/Harvest Public Media Ja Nelle Pleasure never used to think twice about putting food on the table for her family. In fact, the Pleasure family revolved around food. One of their favorite activities was to spin a globe, put a finger down and cook a dish […]
Volunteers from St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda help hand out food to a local resident at an event earlier this month. Xueying Chang/NPR hide caption toggle caption Xueying Chang/NPR Volunteers from St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda help hand out food to a local resident at an event earlier this month. Xueying Chang/NPR An hour before the food distribution event began in Bethesda, Md., on a recent Friday, a long line of cars was already winding through the parking lot. Volunteers from St. John’s Episcopal Church worked to unpack boxes of bread, prepared meals and coffee — enough for the […]
Officials argue that social distancing rules and the pressure brought by the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may be contributing to the rise in the number of suicides among US military service members. US military suicide rates have increased by at least 20% this year, in comparison to the same period last year, with Defence Department officials considering the COVID-19 pandemic a potential primary factor, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. Officials mentioned other factors that are also believed to have contributed to the increase in suicide rates among the military’s active and reserve service members, including war-zone deployments, national disasters across the […]
Few voices in the metal community are more recognizable—or ferocious—than the one wielded by Corey Taylor, who as frontman for horror-metal juggernaut Slipknot has rightly earned the nickname The Great Big Mouth, and whose work with Stone Sour has allowed him to naturally expand into the hard-rock mainstream. Taylor’s output covers a vast stylistic and emotional range, from rage and misery to heartbreak and longing, and thus it’s fitting that he’d continue pushing his creative boundaries by going it alone—and by venturing into sonic realms he’s yet to fully explore with either of his bestselling bands. That’s not to say that […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «The governments love pandemics. They love pandemics for the same reason they love war. It gives them the ability to impose controls on the population that the population would otherwise never accept—creating institutions and mechanisms for orchestrating and imposing obedience. «I will tell you something: it is a mystery to me, how all these big, important people like Bill Gates and Tony Fauci were planning and thinking about this pandemic for decades—planning it so that we would all be safe when the pandemic finally came. And yet, now that […]
Around the end of December, Kai, a high-school student on the West Coast, came down with a bad bug. “I had a sore throat, a severe cough, pain in my abdominal region, a hard time breathing, and a high fever,” Kai, who asked to use only that name for fear of provoking his parents’ anger in an already tense relationship, told The Daily Beast. His worst symptoms eventually faded, but he still “felt extremely weak for weeks after,” as he put it. His doctors weren’t sure what to make of the illness at the time. But as awareness of COVID-19 spread […]
The possibility that the American population might be able to achieve some kind of herd immunity to the novel coronavirus without a vaccine seems to be slipping away. Or at least that’s the worrying implication of a new study that appeared Friday in The Lancet, a medical journal. Experts said the research clarifies the desperate need for a vaccine, and the risk of letting up on social distancing and other safety measures in the meantime. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. Source link
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has vowed to prove the world’s triumph over Covid-19 with next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo, telling the United Nations the games will be held safely after a year-long postponement. Making his debut speech to the international body on Friday, Suga told the UN General Assembly that Japan is committed to “leave no one behind” amid the health crisis, and argued the 2021 Olympics will serve as a symbolic victory against the virus. “In the summer of next year, Japan is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games as proof that humanity has defeated the […]
Since emerging in China in late 2019, the coronavirus has spread to virtually every country around the world, causing nearly a million deaths, and doing trillions of dollars in economic damage amid efforts undertaken by all but a handful of nations to slow its spread. A small number of coronavirus-infected ‘super-spreaders’ is responsible for the rapid spread of the coronavirus, biologists and mathematicians from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw have found. The explosion in cases experienced by many countries in these early months was the result of super- and hyper-spreaders appearing at “super-spreading events” such as […]
Leonardo DiCaprio loves having sex with his headphones on. A Real Housewife runs a NXIVM-style diet program. Jay Cutler is dating “White Power Barbie.” Vince Vaughn is quite rude to his fans. And Senator Lindsey Graham goes maskless in airports. I owe all of this juicy gossip to Deuxmoi, a highly addictive Instagram account that’s become the go-to source for celebrity tea-spilling during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, providing a light tonic of sorts to our daily doomscroll. “People are home and looking for another entertainment outlet,” Deuxmoi tells The Daily Beast. “If there was no quarantine, it wouldn’t have grown at […]
Jesus Gonzalez of Lexington, Ky., has been struggling to make ends meet after the $600 per week in extra federal unemployment benefits ran out. Stacy Kranitz for NPR hide caption toggle caption Stacy Kranitz for NPR Jesus Gonzalez of Lexington, Ky., has been struggling to make ends meet after the $600 per week in extra federal unemployment benefits ran out. Stacy Kranitz for NPR When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Jesus Gonzalez was about a year into starting a Cuban food catering and “pop-up” business in Lexington, Ky. It’s like “a food truck, but without a truck,” he says. His steadiest gig […]
Vietnam’s Intergenerational Self Help Clubs encourage older people in the neighborhood to find solutions to their own challenges, whether it’s feeling lonely or needing a little extra cash. (Image credit: Nguyễn Văn Hốt) Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080544714_0:0:1719:966_1200x675_80_0_0_a7ad2f7ea0e9a9ae1b1683d99b9fe2e9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009231080544633-trump-claims-biden-wears-mask-amid-covid-19-pandemic-to-cover-up-plastic-surgery/ It is not the first time that US President Donald Trump has mocked his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, for wearing a mask during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Earlier this month, speaking to supporters in Pennsylvania, Trump mockingly insisted that the former vice president likes to wear masks more than anyone he has ever seen. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday mocked Democratic presidential nominee and former US vice president, Joe Biden, for wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that he is covering up plastic surgery. “I mean, honestly, what […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay The Bills During The Pandemic By Sofia Lopez and Sara Mycklebust, Inequality.org. September 22, 2020 Make Corporate Landlords Pay The Bills During The Pandemic2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/cancelrent-e1600783330253.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images. With fortunes inflated by corporate welfare, wealthy real estate owners can afford to cancel housing-related expenses and debts for millions of struggling American families. The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, many are unable to pay rents or mortgages and are facing eviction, foreclosure, […]
A Tuesday Washington Post article revealed the US Congress gave the Pentagon $1 billion in March to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that money has mostly been paid to defense contractors, further growing the US war machine, according to medical doctor Dr. Yolandra Hancock and investigative journalist Daniel Lazare. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress earlier this year provided the Pentagon with money to “prevent, prepare for and respond to coronavirus.” However, according to the article, that money was allocated under the Defense Production Act, which allows US President Donald Trump and the Defense […]
Investments in precious metals by Russian banks increased in August, reaching almost $7.4 billion (568 billion rubles), data released by the country’s central bank (CBR) showed. In terms of gold, reserves have amounted to a record 121 tons, which is 10.9 percent higher than the maximum reached in October 2019. According to Maxim Osadchiy, an analyst at BKF Bank, last month, Russian banks increased their bullion reserves by 23.3 tons. He told RBC Daily that this was the most noticeable increase on the balance sheets of Russian banks for the entire period of statistics disclosure. Also on rt.com Russia continues stockpiling […]
In his recorded speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, which is held on-line this year, US President Donald Trump will call on the UN to “hold China accountable for their actions” vis-a-vis the still raging coronavirus pandemic. “The Chinese government, and the World Health Organization – which is virtually controlled by China – falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission,” Trump will say, with an excerpt from his would-be speech cited by Reuters. “Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease…” he is expected to continue. Trump toyed with the idea of […]
On March 9, nine days after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York City, I walked into a meeting not knowing that several attendees had been at a conference that would later be identified as a super-spreader event. I was being extra careful to wash my hands and not touch my face; little did I know that the insidious virus, harmful we were told mostly to the elderly and immunocompromised, was lurking in the air we were breathing. Everyone at the meeting was infected with the coronavirus, and one died of it two weeks later. I had what […]
The betterment of childhood vaccination rates has been a global success story. A new report on the impact of the pandemic offers reason for concern — and optimism. (Image credit: Keyza Widiatmika/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Source link
Whitehall is reportedly getting ready for a fresh round of healthcare restrictions, as British authorities grapple with a new spike in the rate of infections. The UK is at a “critical point” in the coronavirus pandemic, the chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, is expected to warn in an address to the nation on Monday morning as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is prepared to lay out a new roadmap to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus, according to a Daily Mail report. The medical officer will tell a televised briefing that the country faces a “very challenging winter”, with […]
Joeller Stanton used to be an assistant teacher at a private school in Baltimore and made about $30,000 a year. In mid-March, when the pandemic was just starting, her school closed for what was supposed to be two weeks. “Up to that point, we were under the impression that it wasn’t that serious, that everything was going to be OK,” Stanton recalls. But as schools in Maryland switched to virtual learning indefinitely, Stanton was let go from her job. She received her last paycheck in March. “I had about $300 savings that was basically gone by the end of March,” she […]
World Health Organization official Dr. Hans Kluge tells reporters that COVID-19 cases are rising in Europe. David Barrett/AP hide caption toggle caption David Barrett/AP World Health Organization official Dr. Hans Kluge tells reporters that COVID-19 cases are rising in Europe. David Barrett/AP The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that weekly coronavirus case numbers are rising in Europe at a higher rate than during the pandemic’s peak in March. At a virtual news conference, Dr. Hans Kluge, regional director of WHO in Europe, warned, “We do have a very serious situation unfolding before us.” “Weekly cases have exceeded those reported when […]
When 28-year-old Katie Kinsey moved from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles in early March she didn’t expect the pandemic would affect her directly, at least not right away. But that’s exactly what happened. She was still settling in, and didn’t yet have a primary care doctor when she got sick with symptoms of what she feared was COVID-19. “I had a sore throat and a debilitating cough,” she says, “and when I say debilitating, I mean I couldn’t talk without coughing.” She couldn’t lie down at night without coughing. She just wasn’t getting enough air into her lungs, she says. Kinsey, […]
Earlier this year, Monster City Studios, a company that normally makes amusement park and movie props, pivoted to manufacturing MCS face shields with forehead protection. It was one of many small companies to make the switch. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Earlier this year, Monster City Studios, a company that normally makes amusement park and movie props, pivoted to manufacturing MCS face shields with forehead protection. It was one of many small companies to make the switch. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, […]
Patricia Stamper, with her 5-year-old son, works with children who have cognitive and physical disabilities at an elementary school in Washington, D.C. Jared Soares for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jared Soares for NPR Patricia Stamper, with her 5-year-old son, works with children who have cognitive and physical disabilities at an elementary school in Washington, D.C. Jared Soares for NPR I catch Patricia Stamper with a Zoom meeting going in the background and a child at her knee asking for attention. Stamper works as a teacher’s assistant for special education students in the Washington, D.C., public schools. These days, her virtual […]
Israel has celebrated the deal with the UAE and Bahrain but Prime Minister Netanyahu has also faced a barrage of criticism, with tweeps accusing him of failing to handle the raging coronavirus and the threat emanating from Hamas. On Tuesday, it finally happened. After 26 years when the Middle East saw few glimpses of hope for a normalisation of Arab relations with Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed treaties with the Jewish state and sent a message to the world that they’d chose peace over war. In Israel, the ceremony at the White House was a reason for celebration, […]