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The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 2,800,000. In the United States, more than 562,000 have died. The states with the most deaths are California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Illinois.
Biden says 90% of adults in US will be eligible for vaccination by April 19
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2BL2M0
"It's one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It's going to be just fine." – Donald Trump to CNBC's Joe Kernen, January 22, 2020. Uh, yeah, about that.......
COVID-19 third leading cause of US deaths in 2020 after heart disease, cancer
https://www.aol.com/news/covid-19-th...183702852.html
Worldwide, more than 2,879,000 people have died of COVID-19. In the United States, the death toll has surpassed 569,000.
Biden moves up vaccine eligibility for adults
The President has announced that every adult in the US will be eligible to be vaccinated by April 19, almost two weeks earlier than his first deadline.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/06/polit...den/index.html
New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are home to 22% of the US population – but those five states have accounted for 43% of new coronavirus cases over the last week. California has had the most COVID-19 deaths, more than 59,800.
UK variant is now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, says CDC chief
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/us/uk...ain/index.html
The CDC says more than 5,800 Americans have contracted COVID-19 after receiving the vaccine and 74 have died – but that's a very small percentage of the 80,600,000 who have been vaccinated.
Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million
https://www.aol.com/news/worldwide-c...140611417.html
The COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 589,000 in the United States, 401,000 in Brazil, 215,000 in Mexico, 208,000 in India and 3,177,000 worldwide – and Spotify's most popular podcaster is playing doctor: "If you’re a healthy person and you’re exercising all the time and you’re young and you’re eating well," you don't need to be vaccinated. Wow.
Dr. Anthony Fauci dismantles Joe Rogan’s false and selfish vaccination advice
The podcaster’s bogus claim that young, healthy people don’t need to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is OK “if you want to only worry about yourself and not society,” the government’s top infectious diseases expert said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/antho...b04620270439a0
The COVID-19 death toll in India has now surpassed 211,000. More than 3,500 have died in the past 24 hours. Only 2% of people in India have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. On the advice of the CDC, the Biden administration will restrict travel from India to the United States.
Biden administration to restrict travel from India starting May 4
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/polit...ons/index.html
The COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 591,000 in the United States, 407,000 in Brazil,218,000 in Mexico, 217,000 in India and 3,216,000 worldwide. In the US, the percentage of older adults hospitalized for COVID-19 is dropping – and the percentage of younger adults hospitalized for COVID-19 is rising.
COVID 'doesn't discriminate by age': Serious cases on the rise in younger adults
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...younger-adults
More than 592,000 have died of COVID-19 in the United States. Almost 62,000 of those deaths were in California – but the state now has the nation's lowest coronavirus case rate and its largest city and fourth-largest city are slowly starting to return to normal.
Virus cases plunge and L.A., San Francisco come back to life
https://www.aol.com/news/virus-cases...122641095.html
In the United States, more than 120,000,000 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. That is 36.2% of the population.
US federal parks, buildings will not require masks for vaccinated
US News & World Report, May 14 2021 1:20 PM
New guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention released this week means that fully vaccinated staff, contractors and visitors no longer need masks in federal buildings or on federal lands. The shift could affect hundreds of millions of visitors who go to US national parks every year, from California's redwood forest to the seacoast in Acadia, Maine.
The change follows an official recommendation on Thursday by the CDC that fully vaccinated people could go mask-less indoors in most places, a significant shift toward normalcy for the United States, where the pandemic has killed more than half a million people.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/artic...ed-us-official
Nancy Pelosi wants Representatives to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or else wear a mask in the House chamber. In Nazi Germany, Jews were required to wear a yellow star. The British Library website says the star "was intended to humiliate Jews and to mark them out for segregation and discrimination. The policy also made it easier to identify Jews for deportation to camps." Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Retrumplican who believes The Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 Presidential election, compares the mask requirement to the yellow stars. Liz Cheney condemned Greene's comparison as "evil lunacy."
Marjorie Taylor Greene compares House mask mandates to the Holocaust
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/polit...ust/index.html
The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 612,000 – but today there is finally some good news.
US COVID-19 deaths fall to lowest point since March 2020
As vaccinations rise, the seven-day average of reported deaths has dropped below 500.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cov...20-11622816435
The COVID-19 pandemic began in December 2019 and has now killed more than 3,816,000 people worldwide. The nations with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths are the United States (nearly 615,000), Brazil (more than 486,000), India (more than 374,000) and Mexico (more than 230,000).
Global COVID-19 deaths this year surpass 2020 totals
https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/global...s-2020-totals/
The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 617,000. California, New York, Texas and Florida account for more than one third of those deaths: 207,000. China's National Health Commission announced that more than one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in China. That is almost 40% of the 2.5 billion shots administered globally.
Brazil passes half a million COVID-19 deaths, experts warn of worse ahead
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...hs-2021-06-19/
More than 4,000,000 people worldwide have died from COVID-19. The death toll in the United States has surpassed 622,000. More than 530,000 have died in Brazil and more than 405,000 have died in India. In Japan, the death toll is nearing 15,000 – and the Olympics, already delayed by a year, will take place without spectators.
Olympics host city Tokyo bans spectators amid COVID-19 emergency
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...er-2021-07-08/
The hosts at Fox News Channel, a.k.a. the Trump Cheerleading Channel, resent the Biden Administration urging Americans to get COVID-19 vaccinations. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and other hosts keep insisting the vaccinations are "unnecessary" or "dangerous." On July 8, Tucker Carlson falsely declared that anyone who doesn't get the vaccine will "wind up on a government list." On July 12, Jeanine Pirro declared that Biden's vaccination goals are ultimately "about confiscating your guns." Huh?
We now have the Delta Variant of the coronavirus. It is much deadlier and has spread to all 50 states. Dean Obeidallah, a SiriusXM talk show host and columnist for The Daily Beast, explains why Fox News hosts are opposed to vaccinations: "They think hurting the Biden administration's efforts to vaccinate people will help Republicans win in the 2022 midterm – and maybe even help Donald Trump if he runs in 2024." This is further proof that the "win-at-all-costs" Retrumplicans have no shame. So what if hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated people die?
The Delta variant is so contagious, those unprotected will likely get it, a Trump administration FDA chief says
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/18/healt...day/index.html
Ron DeSantis, Florida's Retrumplican Governor, is opposed to mask mandates and he's hawking T-shirts and beer koozies that say "Don't Fauci my Florida. Keep Florida free." The reference is to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute Of Allergy & Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the President. There is also a beverage cooler that says, "How the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?” The question is a quote from DeSantis. Around 20% of new COVID-19 cases are in Florida – and Florida's COVID-19 death rate is almost four times the national average. Thank you, Ron DeSantis!
'Treating it like a joke': Ron DeSantis blamed for Florida's COVID surge
Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman accused the Florida Governor – and Fox News – of spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and the vaccines.
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/fl...062813262.html
The states and counties with the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates tend to have the highest amount of new COVID-19 cases – and anti-vaxxers still complain that the federal government has no business telling anyone to get a vaccination. The death toll has surpassed 626,000 in the United States and 4,150,000 worldwide.
Three states are seeing about 40% of the country’s new COVID-19 cases
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/healt...day/index.html
In Tennessee, more than 880,000 people have contracted COVID-19. That includes Phil Valentine, a Nashville talk radio host who repeatedly dismissed the seriousness of the virus and the importance of vaccines in preventing infection. He finally got a dose of reality.
A conservative talk-show host who said 'you're probably safer not getting' the vaccine is now seriously ill with COVID-19 and his family is asking people to 'PLEASE GO GET VACCINATED!'
https://www.businessinsider.com/cons...sly-ill-2021-7
For the past week, Florida has averaged 6,500 new cases of COVID-19 per day. Florida accounts for 20% of the nation's new COVID-19 cases. Retrumplican Governor Ron DeSantis is refusing to call for any lockdowns or mask mandates. DeSantis, who is not a doctor, insists the current spike in COVID cases is "seasonal." He says Florida will have a "higher prevalence for the rest of July, probably into August, and then it goes back." CNN senior writer and analyst Harry Enten explains how vaccination rates in the United States are affected by a "partisan gap":
Trump supporters are a big reason why Canada and the UK are beating the US on vaccinations
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/polit...sis/index.html