El Paso County, Texas, has ordered a new curfew starting Thanksgiving eve as it continues to grapple with rising Covid-19 cases and so many deaths that 10 additional morgue units have been brought in to accommodate the surge.
Biden to mark one year of Covid-19 shutdown in primetime address Thursday
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President Joe Biden will deliver his first primetime address this Thursday, commemorating the milestone of one year since the global pandemic coronavirus shut down much of the nation. "The President will deliver his...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma test positive for Covid-19
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, have tested positive for Covid-19, the president's office said in a statement Monday. The Assads were in "stable condition" and planned to self-isolate for two o...
Georgia district attorney investigating Trump hires lawyer with expertise in racketeering cases
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A lawyer with deep expertise in racketeering cases has been retained by the Atlanta-area district attorney's office investigating former President Donald Trump. John Floyd is expected to assist the district attorney...
How the Covid-19 hesitant population is declining rapidly
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The release of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine and its partnership with Merck means that President Joe Biden expects the US to have enough Covid-19 vaccines delivered to cover every adult by the end of May....
Canada vowed to protect its Indigenous women. But they are still being blamed for their own deaths
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February marked the culmination of a nearly decade-long legal saga that raised national questions about how Canada treats Indigenous women. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Canadian Cree-Métis mother of three, bled to de...
Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down
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The first thing you need to know about dropping out of school is that it doesn't happen all at once. Educators say students don't just wake up one day and decide that's it, no more school. It happens slowly. They ge...
Doctors in Chicago are making house calls to give vulnerable patients the Covid-19 vaccine
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Chicago Hattie Blumenberg can't easily get to a mass vaccination center. The 90-year-old woman has limited transportation, and leaving her Chicago home would require someone physically carrying her from the house to ...
Four sisters in their 80s and 90s reunited to get their Covid-19 vaccines together
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Four elderly sisters in New Jersey haven't been able to have their regular get-togethers during the coronavirus pandemic, but they made an exception to get their Covid-19 vaccinations. Edith Camp, 96, Bernice Cecil,...
Great apes at the San Diego Zoo receive a Covid-19 vaccine for animals
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Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated against Covid-19 a few weeks after the zoo's gorillas tested positive for the virus. Members of the zoo's bonobo and orangutan troops were vaccinated usi...
Is it OK to be optimistic about Covid-19 now?
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For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a majority of Americans believe our fight against the virus is getting better in a new Gallup national poll, the latest sign that optimism is creeping bac...
Fake tax preparer gets six Covid-19 bailout loans worth more than $1 million
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His past clients say he's a scammer who ran off with their money, and a judge barred him from illegally masquerading as a certified public accountant after government officials caught on to his scheme. But none of ...
The countries making dubious claims over Covid-19 — and what that means for the world
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For the past year, countries around the world have shared data on Covid-19 cases and deaths with the World Health Organization (WHO) -- information that is crucial in informing the global fight against the disease. ...