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from Anglican Journal
It was the story of a community choir rehearsal in Mount Vernon, Washington, that sent shockwaves through the choral community. Sixty-one members of the choir met for their rehearsal on March 10, 2020, as they had every Tuesday: one of the choristers had experienced cold-like symptoms for a few days and was later diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Within two days of the practice, six more choir members developed symptoms. In the end, 53 members of the choir became ill with COVID-19. Two of them died. One of the underreported stories of this pandemic has been the suspension of choral singing: community and church choirs have gone silent.
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Behind Trump’s push to blame China
The rhetorical clash between China and the United States over the Covid-19 pandemic escalated to new heights this past week. Harsh language and taunts are now a daily event, feeding growing concern that the war of words could lead to more serious tensions over Taiwan or the South China Sea. Calls for “decoupling” from dependence on supply chains for vital medical equipment and technology produced in China took concrete form in new steps to block China’s Huawei telecom giant from using American-designed technology. Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump face challenges to their legitimacy and political future from the pandemic and the two are equally eager to deflect responsibility for the crisis.
China trying to steal vaccine research: Trump adviser
You would think that mankind had progressed enough, that they would work together to take on an evil scourge like the new coronavirus. But no, not a chance … in fact, accusations are flying over alleged vaccine espionage. During an appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said China was likely using espionage to try to steal US coronavirus-vaccine research, but he declared that American scientists would develop it first, Newsweek reported.
The rhetorical clash between China and the United States over the Covid-19 pandemic escalated to new heights this past week. Harsh language and taunts are now a daily event, feeding growing concern that the war of words could lead to more serious tensions over Taiwan or the South China Sea. Calls for “decoupling” from dependence on supply chains for vital medical equipment and technology produced in China took concrete form in new steps to block China’s Huawei telecom giant from using American-designed technology. Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump face challenges to their legitimacy and political future from the pandemic and the two are equally eager to deflect responsibility for the crisis.
You would think that mankind had progressed enough, that they would work together to take on an evil scourge like the new coronavirus. But no, not a chance … in fact, accusations are flying over alleged vaccine espionage. During an appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said China was likely using espionage to try to steal US coronavirus-vaccine research, but he declared that American scientists would develop it first, Newsweek reported.
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from BBC News (UK)
JK Rowling has surprised fans with the announcement of a brand new children's book, which she is publishing in daily instalments on her website for free. The Ickabog is her first children's story not to be linked to Harry Potter. She wrote it over a decade ago for her own children and has now dusted it off. It's for "children on lockdown, or even those back at school during these strange, unsettling times", she said. She had previously referred to it only as an unnamed "political fairytale". Chapters of The Ickabog are being published daily until 10 July on The Ickabog website.
The US Africom statement on Tuesday said: "Moscow recently deployed military fighter aircraft to Libya in order to support Russian state-sponsored private military contractors (PMCs) operating on the ground there." "Russian military aircraft are likely to provide close air support and offensive fires for the Wagner Group PMC that is supporting the Libyan National Army's fight," it said. "The Russian fighter aircraft arrived in Libya, from an airbase in Russia, after transiting Syria where it is assessed they were repainted to camouflage their Russian origin."
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The costs of the government responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have been severe. New evidence suggests they could be even worse than we imagined. An ABC affiliate in California reports that doctors at John Muir Medical Center tell them they have seen more deaths by suicide than COVID-19 during the quarantine. “The numbers are unprecedented,” said Dr. Michael deBoisblanc, referring to the spike in suicides. We’ll have months if not years to debate whether the lockdowns were effective or the right thing to do. What’s important to remember is the stay-at-home orders come with a host of unintended consequences that we have not yet even begun to measure or understand.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
The Chicago School versus the Austrian School
Although it's true that Austrians agree with Chicago economists on many policy issues, their approach to economic science is very different.
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from New York Times Newspaper in New York
Informed by the best medical advice we can find, we believe we can keep our campus environment healthy. At the University of Notre Dame, we recently announced our plans to return students to campus for the fall semester. In order to reduce the chances that students from around the country and the world with multiple departures and returns will carry pathogens with them, we will bring students back two weeks early, forgo a fall break and finish the semester before Thanksgiving.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Yahoo News
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website owned by Verizon Media
The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live
The staggering American death toll from the coronavirus, now approaching 100,000, has touched every part of the country, but the losses have been especially acute along its coasts, in its major cities, across the industrial Midwest, and in New York City. The devastation, in other words, has been disproportionately felt in blue America, which helps explain why people on opposing sides of a partisan divide that has intensified in the past two decades are thinking about the virus differently. It is not just that Democrats and Republicans disagree on how to reopen businesses, schools and the country as a whole. Beyond perception, beyond ideology, there are starkly different realities for red and blue America right now.
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The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live
The staggering American death toll from the coronavirus, now approaching 100,000, has touched every part of the country, but the losses have been especially acute along its coasts, in its major cities, across the industrial Midwest, and in New York City. The devastation, in other words, has been disproportionately felt in blue America, which helps explain why people on opposing sides of a partisan divide that has intensified in the past two decades are thinking about the virus differently. It is not just that Democrats and Republicans disagree on how to reopen businesses, schools and the country as a whole. Beyond perception, beyond ideology, there are starkly different realities for red and blue America right now.
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