pandemic
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Black People Disproportionately Died of COVID-19 Last Year, Study Says
The study concludes that the last 20 years of effort to close the mortality rate gap between Black and white people are erased by the past year of the pandemic.
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Concerns Rise That Delta Variant May Become Predominant Coronavirus Strain in the U.S.
The strain is more contagious than any previous variant.
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'Give Yourself Some Self Love Because You Did It': The Root Staff Looks Back at Navigating 2020
“We can all make jokes about 2020 but, in reality, it really was the hardest year of our lives.” — Danielle Belton, Editor-in-Chief, The Root text This year was tough, and it seems like everybody can tell you a different, personal reason why. The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton struggled with loneliness as social distancing measures…
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Los Angeles Officials Trying To Determine if Increase in COVID-19 Cases Is Due To Mutated Strain
The end of the year has brought with it a mutated strain of COVID-19 which reared its head in the United Kingdom recently and could potentially be the cause of a current surge in coronavirus cases in California. This weekend, a stunning 225,818 new cases of COVID-19 were reported across the U.S., with troubling spikes…
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Senate Leaders Say $600 Stimulus Checks Are ‘Just a First Step’ as Millions of Americans Shout GTFOH
Welp, it finally happened. After months of contentious negotiations between groups of people who have plenty of money who make decisions that greatly affect people who don’t, Senate officials announced the bipartisan $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package—one that will provide most Americans with $600 to help make ends meet as the pandemic rages on. As…
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No One Would Let the Government Shutdown in a Pandemic. Republicans: Hold My Ensure
The government is at the risk of being shut down because, in the eleventh hour, some asshole senator from Fuckstick, Fuckville, has decided that it’s more important to him to screw over President-elect Joe Biden than it is to pass this shitty-ass package into law so that Americans can get some relief. Sen. Patrick J.…
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From Hellhole to Hotspot: Accounts Inside the D.C. Jail During COVID-19 Reveal a Perfect Storm of Squalor and Neglect
“I was coughing up blood for two days this week,” M said. “I have not seen a doctor. I have been telling sick call but they just walk past me.” M, held at the District of Columbia jail, was describing his life behind bars as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. M’s written statement is one…
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First COVID-19 Vaccine Administered in the U.S. Goes to a Black Nurse; Officials Hope It’s ‘the Beginning of the End’ of the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has made 2020 one long year. Seriously, it feels like ages since media outlets first started reporting on the spread of the virus, and people in the U.S. and much of the world had no idea what impact it would have on our daily lives. Now, as we’re nearing the end of 2020—and…