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Month: January 2021

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US spent $200 million sending 8,722 ventilators around the world and can’t find many now, watchdog finds

The Trump administration spent $200 million sending thousands of ventilators around the world, starting weeks after President Donald Trump touted America as the “king of ventilators,” but without any established way to locate them, the Government Accountability Office found in a report released Thursday. One hundred fifty of the ventilators went to countries with zero

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¿Afecta el covid-19 la fertilidad masculina? Expertos piden tener precaución ante nuevo estudio

(CNN) –– Los casos graves de covid-19 podrían afectar la calidad del esperma de los hombres, lo que posiblemente impacte su fertilidad, según un nuevo estudio publicado este jueves en la revista Reproduction. «Este reporte proporciona la primera evidencia directa hasta la fecha de que la infección por covid-19 afecta la calidad del semen y

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Lo que dicen los médicos sobre la ivermectina, un medicamento no probado contra el covid-19 cuyo uso ha explotado en América Latina

(CNN Español) — Primero los hechos: no hay una sólida base científica para decir que la ivermectina es efectiva contra el covid-19. Pero tampoco hay evidencia suficiente, hasta ahora, para decir que no funciona para tratar o prevenir el covid-19. La medicina, usada ampliamente en el mundo para combatir parásitos, está siendo incluida en el

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Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is 66% effective in global trial, but 85% effective against severe disease, company says

Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 single-shot vaccine was shown to be 66% effective in preventing moderate and severe disease in a global Phase 3 trial, but 85% effective against severe disease, the company announced Friday. The vaccine was 72% effective against moderate and severe disease in the US, the company said. It’s a striking difference from

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2 Fort Bliss soldiers in ICU, 9 others hospitalized after ingesting chemical used in antifreeze

Two soldiers at Fort Bliss received treatment at the intensive care unit of a local hospital Friday for ethylene glycol poisoning, a chemical often used in the making of antifreeze, the Army’s 1st Armored Division said. The soldiers drank a substance during a field training exercise “thinking they were drinking an alcoholic beverage,” the statement

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Feds charge woman allegedly heard during Capitol riot saying she was looking for Pelosi ‘to shoot her in the friggin’ brain’

Federal prosecutors charged a woman in connection to the January 6 riot at the US Capitol in Washington who they say can be heard on video making violent remarks about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The woman, Dawn Bancroft, was charged along with Diana Santos-Smith for violent entry on Capitol grounds, remaining in a restricted area

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Kevin McCarthy to meet with Marjorie Taylor Greene next week

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will meet with controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene next week, his spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The announcement comes as many House Republicans have been silent about Greene’s newly resurfaced incendiary comments — ranging from supporting violent threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to spreading baseless claims pertaining to

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Bombas caseras halladas cerca del Capitolio el 6 de enero se pusieron la noche anterior, dice el FBI

(CNN) –– Dos bombas caseras descubiertas el 6 de enero cerca de la sede de los partidos Demócrata y Republicano se pusieron la noche antes de la insurrección en el Capitolio, informó el FBI este viernes. Las autoridades federales aumentaron de nuevo la recompensa por información sobre la persona responsable. También publicaron este viernes nuevos

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Philadelphia severs ties with Covid-19 testing and vaccine organization after losing ‘trust in them’

The city of Philadelphia has cut ties with a Covid-19 vaccine provider, saying it lost “trust in them as an organization,” after a slew of controversial moves by the group and its 22-year-old CEO, who admitted Thursday he took vaccine doses and administered them to four friends. Additionally, Philly Fighting COVID (PFC) unexpectedly shuttered its

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Federal appeals court allows U.S. border officials to swiftly return unaccompanied migrant children under Trump-era policy

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the federal government can quickly return unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border under a public health order put in place under former President Donald Trump. The order from the DC Circuit Court means that the government can again begin to expel children who arrived at the

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