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Trump has repeatedly compared COVID-19 to influenza, despite Fauci estimating COVID-19 to have a mortality rate around ten times higher. On March 9, Trump compared the 546 known U.S. cases of COVID-19 at the time and the 22 known deaths at the time to the tens of thousands of U.S. deaths from flu each year.
Healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than the general population due to frequent contact with positive COVID-19 patients. [2] Healthcare workers have been required to work under stressful conditions without proper protective equipment, and make difficult decisions involving ethical implications.
The impact [of COVID-19] on food security may lead vulnerable household to resort to negative coping strategies, which will have lasting effects on their lives and livelihoods, including reduction in number of meals, increased school drop-out rate, decreased means to cover health expenditures, gender-based violence, selling of productive assets ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Protection urges those exposed to COVID-19 to wear a mask. If symptoms develop, the exposed individuals should self-quarantine. If symptoms develop, the exposed ...
At an unusually contentious briefing Thursday of the coronavirus task force, President Trump floated the idea that people infected with COVID-19 might be treated using injections of disinfectant ...
[174] [171] Biden also created the White House COVID-19 Response Team to succeed the COVID-19 Advisory Board for a unified federal government response. On January 21, 2021, Biden issued two executive orders, one on the importance of addressing systemic racism and health disparities plaguing underserved communities, and the second on ...
On 27 April, employees walked out of the Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Cold Spring, Minnesota, in protest of how the firm is handling worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 28 April 50 workers at the Smithfield Foods' pork plant in Nebraska walked out when the heard the plant would not close after around forty-eight co ...
Patel has pushed extensive conspiracy theories about federal government employees, Trump critics, the 2020 presidential election, the COVID-19 vaccine and more.