European Leaders Are Ignoring Donald Trump and Congratulating Joe Biden
The sense of relief is almost palpable. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vbeg/donald-trump-joe-biden-european-reaction
The sense of relief is almost palpable. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vbeg/donald-trump-joe-biden-european-reaction
Vice
European Leaders Are Ignoring Donald Trump and Congratulating Joe Biden
The sense of relief is almost palpable.
For a lot of people it's a good day - Van Jones reacts to Joe Biden's election as the 46th president of the United States. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/07/van-jones-reaction-2020-election-result-elexnight-vpx.cnn
CNN
Van Jones: For a lot of people it's a good day | CNN Politics
CNN’s Van Jones reacts to Joe Biden’s election as the 46th president of the United States.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson tested positive for coronavirus Monday morning, his deputy chief of staff Coalter Baker confirmed. Carson attended the election night party where White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and nearly every other attendee was not wearing a mask. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and four others in President Trump's orbit subsequently tested positive last week.
Carson was also spotted maskless at a Trump campaign rally in Waterford Township, Michigan on Oct. 30. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-09-20/h_1707a8ce343af09d065bcc37fdb5fa50
Carson was also spotted maskless at a Trump campaign rally in Waterford Township, Michigan on Oct. 30. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-09-20/h_1707a8ce343af09d065bcc37fdb5fa50
CNN
Ben Carson, who attended Trump election party, tests positive for coronavirus
HUD Secretary Ben Carson tested positive for coronavirus Monday morning, his deputy chief of staff Coalter Baker confirmed to CNN.
Joe Biden has won the presidency. But the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, is attempting a coup in plain sight. “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” he tweeted on Saturday morning. https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2020/11/7/21554114/trump-election-2020-voter-fraud-challenge-recount-biden
Vox
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
How do we cover it when it’s happening here?
Christmas celebrations are in jeopardy if Canadians don't stop gathering with friends and family now https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/13/world/canada-covid-thanksgiving-surge-trnd/index.html
CNN
Christmas celebrations are in jeopardy if Canadians don't stop gathering with friends and family now
Canadian Thanksgiving was just last month, and the country has seen consequences as Covid-19 cases reach record highs. Now, Canadian leaders say Christmas celebrations are in jeopardy.
The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27V0KF
U.S.
Researchers find coronavirus was circulating in Italy earlier than thought
The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy in September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought.
Sixty-three million people voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Seventy-one million voted for him in 2020, more than any candidate besides the one who beat him, and all that after four years where the worst predictions about Trump’s presidency came to pass.
Ignorance and immorality simply cannot account for 71 million votes. https://thecorrespondent.com/790/not-every-trump-voter-is-racist-or-misled-theres-a-rational-trump-voter-too/104587469580-70c2eef0
Ignorance and immorality simply cannot account for 71 million votes. https://thecorrespondent.com/790/not-every-trump-voter-is-racist-or-misled-theres-a-rational-trump-voter-too/104587469580-70c2eef0
The Correspondent
Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There’s a rational Trump voter too
Joe Biden won the US elections last week. But Donald Trump still got a record-breaking 71 million votes. These can’t all be explained away by ignorance and racism. There’s a rational Trump voter who we need to understand if we want to keep the forces of populism…
"No One Is Listening to Us" More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/third-surge-breaking-healthcare-workers/617091/
The Atlantic
‘No One Is Listening to Us’
More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.
US president had asked what ‘options were available’ to take action against Iran’s key nuclear site, says the New York Times. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/17/trump-considered-attacking-iran-nuclear-site-nyt-report
Aljazeera
Iran vows ‘crushing’ response after NYT says Trump mulled attack
US president asked what ‘options were available’ to take action against Iran’s key nuclear site, New York Times reports.
Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program
The president was dissuaded from moving ahead with a strike by advisers who warned that it could escalate into a broader conflict in his last weeks in office https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html
The president was dissuaded from moving ahead with a strike by advisers who warned that it could escalate into a broader conflict in his last weeks in office https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html
NY Times
Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program
The president was dissuaded from moving ahead with a strike by advisers who warned that it could escalate into a broader conflict in his last weeks in office.
Reporters were right not to trust the current US president, because Americans have in fact died at a greater rate than Europeans since March, according to new data provided to The Intercept by Danish researchers who monitor excess mortality in Europe, and a separate analysis of deaths during the pandemic from Oxford University economists published on Tuesday. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/excess-mortality-data-shows-trump-lying-covid-deadly-europe/
The Intercept
Excess Mortality Data Shows Trump Is Lying About Covid-19 Being More Deadly in Europe
The president keeps saying the excess death rate during the pandemic is higher in Europe than in the U.S. That’s not true.
The drug maker Pfizer said on Wednesday that its coronavirus vaccine was 95 percent effective and had no serious side effects — the first set of complete results from a late-stage vaccine trial as Covid-19 cases skyrocket around the globe. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine.html
NY Times
New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective
The company said it planned to apply for emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration “within days.”
The US is likely in the "last big surge" before a possible Covid-19 vaccine can start to offer help in the coming months, one expert says. But for now, the country is continuing to set grim case and hospitalization records and the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/11/17/dr-francis-collins-nih-coronavirus-vaccine-development-pfizer-moderna-tsr-vpx.cnn
CNN
'Pretty amazing:' NIH director on Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine news - CNN Video
Pfizer has accumulated enough safety data on its Covid-19 vaccine and is preparing to file for emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, calls the news "pretty…
All of Georgia's 159 counties are on track to finish a full hand-count audit of the presidential contest by Wednesday's midnight deadline, and while uncounted votes have been found in three counties, the secretary of state's office has continued to refute false claims about the audit and the election, defending the integrity of both. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/refuting-falsehoods-georgia-election-officials-defend-integrity-of-audit-election/ar-BB1b7ZIW?ocid=Peregrine
Msn
Refuting falsehoods, Georgia election officials defend integrity of audit, election
All of Georgia's 159 counties are on track to finish a full hand-count audit of the presidential contest by Wednesday's midnight deadline, and while uncounted votes have been found in three counties, the secretary of state's office has continued to refute…
The coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect 94% of adults over 65 years old.
More data released from their continuing phase three trial suggests it works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities.
The companies say they will now apply for authorisation for emergency use of the jab in the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54986208
More data released from their continuing phase three trial suggests it works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities.
The companies say they will now apply for authorisation for emergency use of the jab in the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54986208
BBC News
Covid vaccine: Pfizer says '94% effective in over-65s'
The jab works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities, further data suggests.
The euro was the most used currency for global payments last month, the first time it has outpaced the dollar since February 2013.
Data from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, which handles cross-border payment messages for more than 11,000 financial institutions in 200 countries, showed the European Union’s single currency and the greenback were followed by the British pound and the Japanese yen. The Canadian dollar overtook China’s yuan for the fifth spot, Swift said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/euro-tops-dollar-as-payments-currency-for-first-time-since-2013?sref=KUEUnb10
Data from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, which handles cross-border payment messages for more than 11,000 financial institutions in 200 countries, showed the European Union’s single currency and the greenback were followed by the British pound and the Japanese yen. The Canadian dollar overtook China’s yuan for the fifth spot, Swift said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/euro-tops-dollar-as-payments-currency-for-first-time-since-2013?sref=KUEUnb10
Bloomberg
Dollar Loses to Euro as Payment Currency for First Time in Years
The euro was the most used currency for global payments last month, the first time it has outpaced the dollar since February 2013.
Germany was seen as a beacon for other European countries during the first coronavirus wave and hailed for one of the world's best health care systems. But it is now beginning to struggle with more severe infections than at any other point during the pandemic. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/21/europe/germany-icu-beds-covid-intl/index.html
CNN
European countries believed that Germany would always have spare ICU beds for them. Now they're almost full
As coronavirus cases rise to record rates, Germany is beginning to struggle with more severe infections than at any other point during the pandemic. The crisis is putting its healthcare system, among the world's best, under strain.
More than 80 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota were traced to this summer's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in neighboring South Dakota, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report. https://abcnews.go.com/US/80-covid-19-cases-minnesota-traced-sturgis-rally/story?id=74336914
ABC News
Over 80 COVID-19 cases in Minnesota traced to Sturgis rally: CDC
More than 80 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota were traced to this summer's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in neighboring South Dakota, the CDC said in a new report.
With Thanksgiving canceled, doctors quitting their practices and grocers limiting purchase quantities (again), Americans have the ambient sense that our safety net is unraveling. Not only are things not returning to normal, they may not return to normal for a long time. https://www.axios.com/season-covid-uncertainty-7558f740-88f8-4934-8686-2e799811a36d.html
Axios
A season of COVID uncertainty
The virus surge is making everything feel strange, different and unsettled all over again.