Mass Gathering And Vaccine Hesitancy Led To Rapid Infections And Increasing Deaths May 11, 2021, 15:00 IST
As the country continues to battle disappointing numbers and loss of life, the Population Foundation of India makes recommendations for a way out.
The second COVID-19 wave has torn through India’s rural hinterland, where health infrastructure is woefully inadequate. According to data compiled by How India Lives, in April 2021, rural areas contributed close to half (44.1 per cent) of all new cases in the country, compared to 40.8 per cent in urban areas. In the first four days of May alone, rural India’s contributed 1.39 times the number of new cases as urban areas. India’s vaccination campaign, which has covered less than 2% of the population so far, has not reached many who need it most.
Should China s top researchers face sanctions on suspicion of developing bioweapons?
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New Delhi, May 11: The May 7 article in The Australian newspaper revealing that bioweapons were on the radar of Chinese academics and military scientists since 2015 has triggered a legitimate demand for sanctioning Chinas science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) researchers.
The daily brought into global spotlight the existence of a Chinese military paper that discusses the potential of bioweapons based on SARS coronaviruses. Covid-19 is also a mutant of SARS coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. The findings by the Australian have reopened the debate about the origins of Covid-19, driving holes in the theory that a wet market in Wuhan, a stone s throw from the Wuhan Institute of Virolog
The stupid party gets stupider
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May 11, 2021
Just when you thought the Republicans were getting their act together by dumping Liz Cheney, we find out they are replacing her with a tool of the gay lobby. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council says the Cheney replacement, Rep. Elise Stefanik, has supported legislation like the Equality Act, which normalizes a radical sexual ideology to the detriment of families, children, and people of faith.
Stefanik, of New York, joined House Democrats to vote for the Equality Act in 2019.
It was big news over the weekend that Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was backing her. Now it turns out that Stefanik, who is expected to be elected as the new chair of the House Republican Conference on Wednesday, was a cheerleader for the gay rights lobby.
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According to a recent report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the United States has finally reached a major milestone in slowing the spread of COVID-19. As of May 07, nearly one in three Americans are fully vaccinated, with another 150 million having already received their first vaccine shot.
While the pace of the vaccinations has slowed from its peak, which was 4.6 million daily shots back on April 10, it still signals a success in finally achieving partial immunity within the U.S. Current data shows that 111 million Americans are now fully vaccinated, thanks to a concerted effort from public health workers. With President Joe Biden stating that he would like for 70% of the population to have their first shot by July 04, this report further demonstrates that the U.S. is on track to achieve that goal.
Republican 2022 Hopes Run Through Districts Scarred by Covid Bloomberg 2 days ago Jonathan Levin
(Bloomberg) Republicans aiming to retake the U.S. House next year will have to defend the party’s pandemic record, especially in Sun Belt districts that stand out for their grim death tolls or lackluster vaccinations.
Forty-seven Democrat-held districts and 21 Republican seats are at the center of the fight. High Covid-19 death rates or low vaccine penetration stand to be issues in around 20 of them, 15 to the potential advantage of Democrats.
While voters’ memories are often short, none have been through a combined public-health, economic and political crisis in such a short time. Whatever lessons they take will determine whether Democrats who as of Tuesday will have a seven-seat margin in the 435-member body can avoid the usual midterm setback for a new president’s party.