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Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation
Dr. Rick Bright had led BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, since 2016 until Tuesday, when was reassigned to a narrower position. He also announced he will file a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general. “I believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the …
Punish leaders harshly for breaking lockdown rules – ex-ConCourt justice – The Citizen
Former Constitutional Court justice and anti-apartheid activist Zak Yacoob says the government should punish leaders who have not properly obeyed Covid-19 lockdown regulations more harshly. Yacoob was speaking via Zoom to around 250 people at a University of KwaZulu-Natal-hosted webinar on fake news, the lockdown and its unintended consequences. “When the minister [Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams] breaks …
Blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients, doctors say
“That’s when we knew we had a huge problem,” said Coopersmith, a critical-care surgeon. As he checked with his counterparts at other medical centers, he became increasingly alarmed: “It was in as many as 20, 30 or 40 percent of their patients.” One month ago, as the country went into lockdown to prepare for the …
Is Joe Biden breaking through?
Two questions dominate the current stages of the presidential campaign among Democrats. First, did you hear what Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPelosi: Trump ‘engaged in distractions’ amid ‘total failure’ on testing Harvard responds to Trump: Taxpayer funds will aid students affected by coronavirus Poll: More than 70 percent of Americans support coronavirus stay-at-home orders MORE claimed …
BWS crews responding to a water main break in Waikiki
Make-A-Wish Hawaii and Dominos Hawaii presents “Stars at Home,” the first virtual talent show benefitting more than 20 local children whose wishes have been postponed as the state battles a coronavirus outbreak. “Eighty percent of our local wish kids wish to go somewhere. Spring break and summer are our busiest months for travel,” explained CEO …
Missouri sues China over the coronavirus pandemic in first lawsuit of its kind
Schmitt told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that the “responsibility lies directly at their feet” for the 229 deaths and more than 6,100 reported cases, as well as the economic suffering so many families in his state are experiencing under the stay-at-home order. Schmitt’s lawsuit appears to be part of a growing effort, mostly …
Surveillance Video Captures Burglars Breaking Into Tulsa Business
News Wednesday, April 22nd 2020, 7:28 AM CDT TULSA – Surveillance video shows two men burglarizing Global Car Sales near 11th Street and Utica overnight. One of the employees said the burglars were casing the area hours before apparently planning how they were going to break-in. Those two guys came back around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday …
2 women cited for breaking quarantine – English
(ANSA) – Rimini, April 22 – Two women who have the coronavirus were cited for breaking quarantine near Rimini on Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday. The two, aged 72 and 51, were caught digging up flowerbeds on the pavement outside their condominium after repeated complaints from neighbours that they were endangering lives. One of them …
Coronavirus live updates: Second wave of U.S. cases could be worse, deaths in Santa Clara California suggest virus was spreading earlier
At least two people who died in early February had contracted the novel coronavirus, health officials in California said Tuesday, signaling that the virus may have spread — and claimed lives — in the United States weeks earlier than previously thought. Tissue samples taken from two individuals who died in Santa Clara County, Calif., tested …