Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter At the onset of the coronavirus epidemic, California, a coastal country, was celebrated as a common sense brilliance. As Donald Trump avoided masks and sanctions and told Americans that the virus “did not come out of nowhere” and “would one day disappear …
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San Mateo County supervisors say the county should connect with others in the bay area and not wait for state orders to close. As of Friday, the county needs only six available beds in intensive care units to go into life-saving mode, Supervisor David Canepa said. But the county remains …
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By Maria Caspani, Brendan O’Brien New York / Indianapolis (Reuters) – U.S. Health officials, shipping services and hospitals are set to launch an unprecedented mass inoculation campaign on Friday, as federal regulators gave emergency approval to the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Preparations for the vaccine rollout were …
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[The stream is slated to start at 11:00 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference on Friday to say that the world’s governments will update people on the status of the …
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Former Osama bin Laden, convicted of two deadly bombings in 1998, is free and lives in the UK this week after being released early – thanks to a federal judge in Manhattan who agreed that the terrorist was sentenced to life in prison for coronavirus. Adel Abdel Bari, 60, spent …
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