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China Reports Record Number of COVID Cases With More Than 80 Million Locked Down
China reported 5,370 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, according to the country’s National Health Commission, the biggest one-day increase of the entire pandemic. The high case count comes as the province of Jilin and its 24 million people were placed into lockdown on Monday, with millions more in China under harsh restrictions.
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Amazon Cuts Paid Leave for Workers With COVID-19 After CDC Updates Guidance
Nearly two weeks after the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention updated their COVID-19 isolation and quarantine guidelines — a decision some experts called “reckless and dangerous” — the nation’s second-largest private employer has decided that a change was necessary for their pandemic response policies, as well.
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Comparing Covid-19 to the ‘Spanish Flu’ Just Shows How Badly We Screwed This One Up
As of this week, covid-19 is officially the deadliest pandemic ever recorded in the U.S., trumping the 1918-19 pandemic influenza. It’s understandable for people to make the comparison between the two horrific diseases, but there are many reasons why they’re not so analogous, some of which only highlight the dismal response that the U.S. has…
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Bonnaroo Music Festival to Require Covid-19 Vaccination or Negative Test
The Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee will require all attendees to either provide proof they’ve been vaccinated against covid-19 or show a recent negative test for coronavirus in order to enter, according to a new notice on the festival’s website. The four-day festival starts September 2 and features acts like the Foo Fighters, Run the…