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The escalating crisis in Texas shows how the chronic underfunding of public health has put America on track for the worst coronavirus response in the developed world.

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Despite pressure from Trump, major districts say schools will stay closed in fall

FDA fast-tracks vaccines as California leads charge toward second lockdown

Coronavirus crisis may get "worse and worse and worse," WHO chief warns

CBS NEWS  July 14, 2020

The World Health Organization warned Monday that there could be no return to normality any time soon as too many countries were bungling their response to the coronavirus pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that if public health guidelines are not followed, the crisis will get "worse and worse and worse."

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Leaving The Pandemic Response To States Doomed The Country To Fail Together

Coronavirus updates: Trump RTs tweet saying CDC 'lies' about COVID; NYC reports zero deaths for first time since March

No one is safe until everyone is safe': Vaccine nationalism threatens global coronavirus effort

Pittsburgh Seemed Like a Virus Success Story. Now Cases Are Surging.

PITTSBURGH — A little more than three weeks ago, officials in Pittsburgh announced a milestone enviable for almost any major city in America: A day had gone by without a single new confirmed case of the coronavirus. It was good news for a city that had seen only a modest outbreak all along, even as the virus raged through places like Philadelphia and New York.

That was then.

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As US grapples with virus, Florida hits record case increase

Study of 17 Million Identifies Crucial Risk Factors for Coronavirus Deaths

US Covid-19 cases are climbing but some state and local leaders clash over moves to curb the spread

Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds

How Coronavirus Cases Have Risen Since States Reopened

Daily Virus Death Toll Rises in Some States

White House Takes New Line After Dire Report on Death Toll

           

President Donald Trump at a Monday news conference on the Covid-19 pandemic.  Doug Mills / The New York Times

nytimes.com - by Sheri Fink - March 17, 2020

Sweeping new federal recommendations announced on Monday for Americans to sharply limit their activities appeared to draw on a dire scientific report warning that, without action by the government and individuals to slow the spread of coronavirus and suppress new cases, 2.2 million people in the United States could die.

To curb the epidemic, there would need to be dramatic restrictions on work, school and social gatherings for periods of time until a vaccine was available, which could take 18 months, according to the report, compiled by British researchers. They cautioned that such steps carried enormous costs that could also affect people’s health, but concluded they were “the only viable strategy at the current time.”

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