TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a made-for-TV moment: A 100-year-old World War II veteran getting a vaccine against the coronavirus[1]. “An American hero,” the governor proclaimed Friday, would be the 1 millionth senior in his state to get a lifesaving shot in the arm. As it turned out, the assertion was premature, …
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Here’s why New Yorkers need to get a whole lot more coronavirus vaccine[1]: The economy is in the tank. New York state shed 1 million jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 amid lockdowns[2] and meltdowns in tourism and business activity, a sobering new report reveals. That means 10 percent of the state workforce vanished. …
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El ruido constante de las noticias sobre nuevas variantes del coronavirus[1] —primero en el Reino Unido[2], luego en Sudáfrica, Brasil[3] y Estados Unidos[4]— ha provocado una nueva preocupación: ¿las vacunas protegerán de estas versiones alteradas del virus? Hasta ahora la respuesta ha sido sí, según comentaron varios expertos en entrevistas. Pero dos pequeños estudios nuevos, …
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send a single article of impeachment[1] against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, clearing the way for his trial to start next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. “Make no mistake, a trial will be held in the United States Senate and there will be a …
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WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci says a lack of candor and facts about the coronavirus pandemic under President Donald Trump “very likely” cost lives because it delayed getting sound scientific advice to the country. “You know, it very likely did,” Fauci told CNN. “When you start talking about things that make no sense medically and …
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CHICAGO — In recent days, coronavirus cases have been dropping steadily[1] across the United States, with hospitalizations falling[2] in concert. But health officials are growing increasingly concerned that quickly circulating variants of the virus could cause new surges of cases faster than the country is managing to distribute Covid-19 vaccines. Public health experts likened the …
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His father, Richard, 77, a chiropractor, and his mother, Carole, 75, the office manager, had been traveling back and forth to their clinic on the Mexican side of the border each day. Many of his loyal clients, most of them snowbirds, were in Yuma, counting on him to soothe their back, shoulder and hip pains. …
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The death toll from the coronavirus in Germany has passed 50,000, a number that has risen swiftly over recent weeks even as infection figures are finally declining By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press January 22, 2021, 9:03 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BERLIN — The death toll from the …
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On Thursday morning, just hours after Mr. Biden’s inauguration, Dr. Fauci spoke to the executive board of the World Health Organization, telling the body that the United States would not be following through with Mr. Trump’s demand to leave the group in the middle of a pandemic. “The United States stands ready to work in …
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WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is back. In truth, the nation’s leading infectious-diseases expert never really went away. But after enduring nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from former President Donald Trump[1], Fauci now speaks with the authority of the White House again. He called it “liberating” Thursday to be backed by a …
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