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Coronavirus

On May 24, 2020
@guardian shared
Coronavirus live news: 6m Australians download tracing app as experts fear second wave in US summer https://t.co/xwW8NBAHcN
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Coronavirus live news: 6m Australians download tracing app as experts fear second wave in US summer

Coronavirus live news: 6m Australians download tracing app as experts fear second wave in US summer

New witnesses cast doubt on Cummings’s lockdown claims; Trump golfs in Virginia; WHO says pandemic ‘taking different pathway’ in Africa. Follow the latest updates

On May 20, 2020
@paul__johnson shared
RT @swajones: Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain - via @domphillips, @yachay_dc and me https://t.co/T2vUbLnRl8
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Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain

Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain

Warning Brazil’s health system collapsing, while Peru said to be ‘in bad shape’

On May 21, 2020
@alondra shared
RT @agoldste: "Systemic racism created the health disparities that made black & brown Americans more vulnerable to dying from coronavirus, public health experts say; & now the same racism is also shaping, & undermining, the country’s political response to the pandemic." https://t.co/rI1jzAbQ8Y
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'All the psychoses of US history': how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead

'All the psychoses of US history': how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead

As racism warps the US pandemic response, officials find ways to suggest people of color are at fault for their own deaths

On May 21, 2020
@alondra shared
RT @cnnbrk: Purdue University's president says some professors will teach behind Plexiglas in the fall https://t.co/thkrplDzRW https://t.co/EmU7Ww7rLe
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Coronavirus pandemic in the US

Coronavirus pandemic in the US

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels said the school is taking a hybrid approach to education as it gears up for the upcoming semester, plus implementing new safety measures for ...

On May 25, 2020
@guardian shared
Coronavirus: at a glance https://t.co/Bq0Z6YNUDE
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Coronavirus: at a glance

Coronavirus: at a glance

A summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak

On May 24, 2020
@guardianworld shared
Coronavirus US live: Trump under fire over golf trip as New York Times lists lives lost https://t.co/UpG3HhI18w
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Coronavirus US live: Birx says Trump wears mask when not socially distancing

Coronavirus US live: Birx says Trump wears mask when not socially distancing

President unleashes tweet storm but trip to course in Virginia inspires criticism and Joe Biden campaign ad

On May 20, 2020
@guardian shared
Coronavirus US live: Trump calls America's 1.52m cases 'a badge of honor', stirring outrage https://t.co/F3mSD6MRox
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Coronavirus US live: Trump calls America's 1.52m cases 'a badge of honor', stirring outrage

Coronavirus US live: Trump calls America's 1.52m cases 'a badge of honor', stirring outrage

The president said Tuesday that the rising number of confirmed US cases was positive news, because it’s a mark of how much testing is being done

On May 25, 2020
@guardian shared
Latino workers face discrimination over spread of coronavirus in meat plants https://t.co/7WQBhwpmak
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Latino workers face discrimination over spread of coronavirus in meat plants

Latino workers face discrimination over spread of coronavirus in meat plants

Reports of Latinos being refused service after more than 10,000 meatpacking workers, many Latino, contract Covid-19 in the US