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Senate Republicans are pushing to close what they call a loophole in Minnesota law to ban cities from implementing any form of rent control.
The effort is in apparent response to a proposal by three Minneapolis City Council members to put rent stabilization on the November ballot.
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Under current state law, cities are only allowed to create rent control ordinances if approved by voters in a general election. If it makes it to the ballot in November, Minneapolis voters would be deciding if the city should adopt a rent stabilization ordinance with the details of the policy to follow.
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Confirmed cases of Covid-19 and hospitalizations from the disease have been plummeting for weeks in the US and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Deaths also are in decline. So it seems the long-dreaded fall-winter wave of the pandemic, which turned out to be just about as terrible as feared (with the exception that it wasn’t accompanied by much of any seasonal influenza), has finally crested.
In more good news, some quite effective Covid vaccines are now available, and after a fitful start, the US effort to inject them into people’s arms is steadily gaining speed. Four times as many people are now receiving first vaccine doses each day as are being infected with the disease, according to the infections estimates of both data scientist Youyang Gu’s covid19-projections.com and the covidestim.org model assembled by researchers at the Harvard and Yale schools of public health.
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The Latest: WHO gives emergency authorization for vaccine
By The Associated PressFebruary 15, 2021 GMT
The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, a move that should allow the company’s partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part of a U.N.-backed program to tame the pandemic.
In a statement Monday, the U.N. health agency said it was authorizing the AstraZeneca vaccines made by the Serum Institute of India and South Korea’s AstraZeneca-SKBio.
WHO’s green light for the AstraZeneca vaccine should trigger the delivery of hundreds of millions of doses to countries that have signed up for the U.N.-backed COVAX effort, which aims to deliver vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable.