“To get the virus under control, we need to pay people to stay home,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials AOC, on Thursday. “Are you suggesting you want to pay people to stay home from the money you take by defunding the police?” replied Nikki Haley, former Republican governor …
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“I would shut it down,” Biden had told ABC in August, adding “I would listen to the scientists.” Dr. Michael Osterholm, one of his coronavirus advisers, said last week that a 4-6 week lockdown “could drive the numbers down.” Appearing at a brief press conference on Thursday, however, Biden berated reporters …
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“When viable, widely distributed vaccines hit the market, we believe that this will catalyze the next leg lower[ing] in the structural USD downtrend we expect,” the US bank said in a research note. “Given this set-up, there is the potential for the dollar’s losses to be front-loaded, with the USD …
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“We’ve introduced further safety measures following a number of positive cases,” a spokesperson for Her Majesty’s Prison Service confirmed to British media on Wednesday, amid reports that three inmates at House Block 1 at Belmarsh have tested positive for the virus. Assange has been held at the high-security prison in …
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The new study, which is small and has not yet been peer reviewed or published by a journal, has been shared online, on the pre-print server bioRxiv. Despite its relative dearth of credentials at this early stage, it’s being heralded by the New York Times as “the most comprehensive and …
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Robert Jenrick, the British minister for housing and local government, condemned the SNP on Tuesday for their talk of another referendum in the midst of a pandemic. Speaking to Sky News, Jenrick claimed that the devolution of powers to Scotland has been “misused” by the SNP and that they sought …
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“You get what you accept,” the Stanford University doctor, who has emerged as President Donald Trump’s top adviser on responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, said in a Sunday night tweet that also featured #FreedomMatters and #StepUp hashtags. Such an ambiguous appea triggered a wave of angry replies accusing him of …
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The new groundbreaking study, conducted by scientists with Milan Institute of Cancer and the University of Siena, was published this week by the Tumori Journal. The research is based on the analysis of blood samples from 959 people, collected during lung cancer screening tests conducted between September 2019 and March …
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An effective inoculation against Covid-19 has been billed as the best way to end the global health crisis, but Professor Ugur Sahin, co-founder of BioNTech, has cautioned against assuming the pandemic is behind us. In an interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Sahin said that even after the jab …
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READ MORE: ‘Something extremely bogus is going on’: Musk says he’s positive & negative for Covid-19 after taking 4 tests in 1 day The SpaceX and Tesla mogul tweeted on Saturday that he “most likely” has a moderate case of Covid, even though he is unsure after getting conflicting results …
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