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Yahoo NewsInternal CDC report says racism is making COVID-19 deadlier for Black Americans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that fundamental problems of inequality and discrimination are putting Black Americans at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus, and also making COVID-19 deadlier for them, according to an internal agency report obtained by Yahoo News.
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Nearly the entire U.S. has become a COVID hot spot, government map shows
The U.S. is experiencing an unprecedented wave of the pandemic that has turned virtually the entire country into a hot spot, according to a new internal government map.
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Internal government maps show the dramatic acceleration of a COVID 'red wave'
As the U.S. passed another milestone in the death toll from COVID-19 this week, nearly every measure of the pandemic shows a dramatic worsening, rendered starkly apparent in maps for the White House created by the departments of health and human services and homeland security.
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Biden says the Trump White House won't give him COVID stockpile information. Here it is.
President-elect Joe Biden blasted the Trump administration Wednesday for refusing to share information needed to help his incoming team battle the coronavirus pandemic, including information on supplies in the national stockpile.
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Exclusive: CDC projects U.S. coronavirus death toll could top 180,000 by Aug. 22
As coronavirus cases have continued to rise in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is forecasting that the total American death toll from COVID-19 could hit 182,000 by the fourth week of August, according to an internal government document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Nine of the top 10 U.S. coronavirus hot spots are in Florida and Texas
While President Trump touted improvements in the coronavirus pandemic in the Sun Belt, the CDC warned that nine of the nation’s top 10 growing hot spots are in Florida and Texas, according to an internal government document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Internal document reveals shortfall in coronavirus supplies — including body bags — in U.S. stockpile
More than three months after President Trump promised that “America will be fully prepared for any of the future outbreaks,” the federal government still has shortfalls of personal protective equipment for health care workers, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
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A night at Trump's D.C. hotel, the GOP hot spot emptied by coronavirus
What's it like to spend a night at the Trump International Hotel, the president's flagship property, facing economic ruin amid the coronavirus pandemic?