Racism “is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans. As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday. Reflecting on the impact of Covid-19, Walensky said it was “felt most severely, in communities of …
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More than 2.4 million Israelis have already been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by getting both shots of the Pfizer jab. That’s roughly 27 percent of the country’s population of nine-million and the highest per-capita figure anywhere in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data. But recently the pace of …
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In the middle of January, then-President elect Joe Biden unveiled a large $1.9 trillion stimulus plan to provide much-needed aid to Americans during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Once Biden took office, deficit hawks immediately scoffed at the price tag, and instead the Republican caucus in the Senate put …
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Speaking on Friday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said the government wants to be “straight” with people, adding that the current lockdown measures won’t be reduced until case numbers start to fall and all vulnerable groups have received a vaccine. Eustice was asked whether there was any truth to reports that …
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In announcing planned laws aimed at targeting radical Islamism, French President Emmanuel Macron has bowed to his liberal critics and watered down the draft legislation so that the problem he is aiming to address is not even mentioned. It’s so bloody polite. And that is something of a surprise, because …
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