Covid deaths rise in tired America
A summer that began with caseloads and genuine hope that the worst of COVID-19 was over, is ending with rising deaths, full hospitalizations and a bitter feeling. The pandemic is not over yet in America
The country is now reporting over 160,000 new cases a day and nearly 100,000 Covid patients have been hospitalized across the country, even as vaccination rates have increased and in southern states Some of the hard caseloads are starting to ease. The resurgence has left the country exhausted and less certain than ever about when normalcy may return.
More than 1,500 Americans are dying most days, less during the peak of winter but worse than last summer. With millions of school children returning to classrooms – some for the first time since March 2020 – public health experts say more coronavirus clusters in schools are inevitable.
ups and downs: “Things got so good in May and June that we all, including me, were talking about the final game,” said Dr. John Swartzberg said. “We started enjoying life again. In a matter of weeks, it all came crashing down. “
Vaccine Update: Health officials say most patients who are hospitalized and who die are not vaccinated, putting pressure on the health care system. About 47 percent of Americans are not fully vaccinated.
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Unsuccessful plan of reconciliation between France and Russia
What was believed to be the repatriation of the skeleton of General Charles Tien Gudin, a Napoleonic general killed in Russia in 1812 Bringing together leaders of two countries Long over obstacles. French President Emmanuel Macron will host the funeral of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, which will serve as a symbolic burial of the hatchet.
What happened instead was a small ceremony in a solemn hangar next to a Concorde jet at Le Bourget airport near Paris. The President was nowhere to be seen.
Once seen as an opportunity to take advantage of history for diplomatic purposes, the plan was overshadowed by France’s trouble with Russia’s increasingly difficult domestic and foreign policies, as well as the specifics of their complicated relationship, which was considered shadowy. Was shaped by a history full of middlemen. and backdoor diplomacy.
Worth quoting: Albertique d’Orléans, a descendant of the general, said that the return of his remains was highly politicized. “My feeling is that we have missed a unique opportunity to improve relations between France and Russia,” he said.
‘Everyone is on the list’
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s quest to secure a fourth term has put the Central American nation in jeopardy state of widespread fear. Ortega is now Running on a ballot devoid of any credible challengers, and turning Nicaragua into a police state.
Since June, police have jailed or imprisoned seven candidates for November’s presidential election and dozens of political activists and civil society leaders.
Government critics say the arrests have turned Nicaragua into a more repressive state than in the early years of Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship, which was overthrown in 1979 by the Sandinista Revolutionary Movement led by Ortega.
description: Targets of action include a millionaire banker and a Marxist guerrilla, a decorated general and a little-known provincial activist, student leader and septuagenarian intellectual.
first person: “Everyone is on the list,” said a Nicaraguan businessman whose family home was raided by police and who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “You’re trying to figure out how high or low your name is based on the latest arrest.”
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The German Sanitary Museum in Dresden promotes itself as a “museum of the human and human body”, said its director, Claus Vogel. But as the coronavirus gives disease prevention a new and deadly urgency, the museum is grappling with how to address the thing that has been named, reports Annalisa Quinn.
In times of health crisis, there have been similar debates in the history of medicine, often about privacy, personal liberty, and the best way to communicate health information to a skeptical public.
The museum has more than 10,000 posters related to the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as others encouraging people to get vaccinated against smallpox, the first disease for which there was an effective vaccine. “From the beginning, we had a problem with persuading people to get vaccinated,” said Carola Rupprecht, the head of the museum’s education department.
Smallpox vaccination was eventually made mandatory in many places, including the US and now parts of Germany – which was as controversial at the time as the proposed vaccine mandate is today.
The arguments are still the same, Rupprecht said. “The main question is this: what should be considered more important? The protection of the whole society by vaccination, or the freedom of each individual to make his own decisions?
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