US gun control: Could Joe Biden s plan backfire?
President Joe Biden is calling for stricter gun laws. As gun control activists rejoice, gun owners see their right to self-defense at risk. They re saying the move could cost Democrats dearly.
In 2018, a gunman shot and killed 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
With the spread of the coronavirus, 2020 was a year of uncertainty. In the United States, it was also a year of record gun sales. Even people who had never owned a firearm made their way into gun stores.
Roughly 40% of gun sales in the first four months of 2020 (pandemic lockdowns in the US began in March) were made by first-time buyers far higher than the annual average of 24% over the past 20 years, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association that tracks gun sales.
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A new study concluding out of Lusaka, Zambia last summer has found that as many as 19% (almost 1 in 5) of recently-deceased people tested positive for COVID-19.
A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study in Lusaka, Zambia s capital, challenges the common belief that Africa somehow dodged the COVID-19 pandemic.
The findings indicate that low numbers of reported infections and deaths across Africa may simply be from lack of testing, with the coronavirus taking a terrible but invisible toll on the continent.
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The BMJ, the study found that at least 15% and as many as 19% of recently-deceased people arriving at Lusaka s main morgue over the summer had the coronavirus, peaking at 31% in July. Despite most having had COVID symptoms, few were tested before death.
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Why are coronavirus cases suddenly dropping? Here are 4 key factors.
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The daily number of newly reported coronavirus cases in the United States has declined precipitously over the past two weeks, likely thanks to four key factors, experts say. But experts also fear that another surge in new cases could be on the horizon.
The 4 reasons coronavirus cases are declining
Experts have cited a mix of four different factors that have likely led to America s recent decline in newly reported coronavirus cases.
1. Increasing Covid-19 vaccination rates
Researchers at the
University of Washington s
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in a recent briefing noted that one reason for the United States declining coronavirus case rates is the increasing number of Americans getting vaccinated against Covid-19. [T]he continued scale-up of vaccination helped by the fraction of adults willing to accept the vaccine reaching 71% has contributed to falling rates of newly re