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Even once a vaccine gets approved, big hurdles remain for distribution
Last month, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins called the National Academy of Medicine asking for help: Would the esteemed group be interested in developing guidelines for who should get the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine?
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-distribution-concerns/index.html
Trump to send ‘surge’ of hundreds of federal agents to cities
President Donald Trump is to send “a surge” of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on crime.
The EU struck a big rescue deal on Covid-19. But it might have dealt a blow to democracy
Brussels began the week in celebratory mood, as member states of the European Union finally agreed how they would distribute around $2 trillion of funds across the bloc over the next seven years.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/europe/eu-budget-coronavirus-rule-of-law-analysis-intl/index.html
Desperate for work, these immigrants collect the bodies of Covid-19 victims in Peru
Death, Death, here it comes,” Néstor Vargas and Luis José Cerpa sang with the radio through their face masks, as they barreled down the road in their van.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/20/americas/peru-venezuela-covid-19-bodies-intl/index.html
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Trump’s pick to head Office of Personnel Management spread ‘satanic’ conspiracy theory, called Democrats party of ‘Islam’ and ‘gender-bending’
July 23, 2020
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Daniel Jenkins
The Trump administration announced this week the nomination of a former conservative commentator with a history of inflammatory and conspiratorial tweets to be the head of the Office of Personnel Management.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/john-gibbs-opm-kfile/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
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