The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) argued Monday that the US “will not cut corners” in its race to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn told the American Medical Association (AMA) in a video card that he had heard that experts questioned whether the …
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President Donald Trump announced Monday night that the ‘1917 ‘flu pandemic ended World War II, misrepresenting both the year the pandemic occurred and the year World War II ended. ‘The closest is in 1917,’ they say, the great pandemic. “It was really a terrible thing where they lost 50 to …
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Federal money for state and local governments is a major sticking point to resume negotiations on the next coronavirus relief package. The White House and the Congress Democrats are divided on the question of whether states should get more money – and if so, how much. Before talks came together …
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The world is witnessing “green shoots of hope” in its battle against Covid-19, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). In the WHO’s daily media review, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus began noticing the scale of the coronavirus pandemic, with 20 million confirmed cases and 750,000 deaths expected by …
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A woman runs past a closed off Merlion Park on June 12, 2020 in Singapore. Suhaimi Abdullah | Getty Images Singapore’s economy shrank by 42.9% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the previous quarter – sending the Southeast Asian country into a technical recession, the Ministry of Trade …
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