Yet we shouldn’t ignore the better news from Asia. The strategies pursued by South Korea, Vietnam, China and others do still seem to be paying off. While the total Covid-19 death toll is between 500-700 per million people in France, the U.K., Spain and the U.S., in China and South Korea it is below 10 per million.

Even the famously organized Germans failed to halt the second wave. 

As Europeans start their winter lockdown, they should remember that improvements are achievable

I chose to go a more natural route in terms of medicine, opting more for vitamins and healthy food.

I also thought about the hundreds of thousands of people across our country who have been impacted by this illness that infects people with no discrimination

Our country has overcome many hardships and much adversity, and it is my hope COVID-19 will be another obstacle we will be able to tell future generations we overcame—and learned from in the process.

Despite fears, COVID-19 infections did not surge when schools and day-care centres reopened after pandemic lockdowns eased.

More than 65,000 schools in Italy reopened in September, as case numbers were climbing in the community. But only 1,212 campuses had experienced outbreaks four weeks later1. In 93% of cases, only one infection was reported, and only one high school had a cluster of more than 10 infected people.

Researchers suspect that one reason schools have not become COVID-19 hot spots is that children — especially those under the age of 12–14 — are less susceptible to infection than adults, according to a meta-analysis4 of prevalence studies

arge infection rate meant that the number of people who were still vulnerable to the virus was too small to sustain new outbreaks — a phenomenon called herd immunity.

“Surrendering to the virus” is not a defensible plan, says Kristian Andersen, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Such an approach would lead to a catastrophic loss of human lives without necessarily speeding up society’s return to normal, he says.

Herd immunity happens when a virus can’t spread because it keeps encountering people who are protected against infection.

The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is several-fold higher than that of seasonal influenza,2

This has understandably led to widespread demoralisation and diminishing trust. The arrival of a second wave and the realisation of the challenges ahead has led to renewed interest in a so-called herd immunity approach, which suggests allowing a large uncontrolled outbreak in the low-risk population while protecting the vulnerable. Proponents suggest this would lead to the development of infection-acquired population immunity in the low-risk population, which will eventually protect the vulnerable.This is a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence

Japan, Vietnam, and New Zealand, to name a few countries, have shown that robust public health responses can control transmission, allowing life to return to near-normal, and there are many such success stories.

delirium: they were confused, disorientated and agitated2

A similar study1 published in July compiled detailed case reports of 43 people with neurological complications from COVID-19

between 10,000 and 50,000 people have experienced neurological complications.

Donald Trump Is Not Used to Listening to Anybody Else

o how does Donald Trump propose to pay for this wall? He plans to bill the Mexican government for the cost. Give us a break!

Donald Trump Has No Interest in the Broader World

Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors — happening almost daily — would not be forgotten. This election year, amid a harrowing global health, civil rights, humanitarian, and economic crisis, we know it’s never been more critical to note these horrors, to remember them, and to do all in our power to reverse them.

In more than 50 cases nationwide, children were heard bullying classmates with calls for deportation, references to Donald Trump’s name, and blatantly racist language.

At a rally with supporters, Donald Trump asserted that a law should exist which requires all immigrants to support themselves financially for five years before receiving welfare aid.

He’s such a whiner. You’d think a guy in the White House, with the Senate in his lap, two of his own Supreme Court Justices and Fox News would have things under control. But he plays the victim card like Blanche DuBois.

The new findings also highlight the need to examine both the genetic and the autoantibody-mediated contributors to severe cases of infectious disease.

“introduced no evidence that Colbert’s use of the n-word changed his subjective experience of the workplace.

“I rarely put my views out there for fear of retaliation against my children,” says Dobson, an African American mother of three in her 50s. “There’s people I associate with and talk to and may even socialize with, but they don’t know how I feel about social issues. I don’t talk about it, because it’s not welcome.”

“Personally, I’m scared,” she says, referring to the election results. “They’re flying Confederate flags, calling you ugly things. They’re very comfortable with that now; either way it’s not going to go well.”

“When George Floyd was murdered, it completely rocked my world,” she says. “I’m beginning to find my voice. At my age, it’s time.”

Critics Accuse Trump Of Using Race To Divide Americans

Soon after being discharged from the hospital for treatment for COVID-19, President Trump tweeted the slur "Chinese virus" to refer to the coronavirus, something he's often repeated during the pandemic.

And Trump paints the largely peaceful protests for racial justice across the country as violent riots and tries to portray himself as the "law and order" candidate.

Trump said such training is “teaching people to hate our country.”

The lawsuit, however, said the wording of the order is overly broad and is already having a chilling effect on diversity training. Some organizations have asked that words including “systemic racism” and “white privilege” be banned from training, the complaint said. It also cited the University of Iowa’s decision to suspend its diversity efforts for fear of losing government funding.

"Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents in modern American history."

Biden's progressive rhetoric on race matters during the debate and elsewhere, including his insistence that the US must deal with "systemic racism," does not exist in a vacuum.

However, if former vice president Joe Biden wins the White House, and if the Democrats win both houses of Congress, tax rates may rise across a range of income sources for wealthier Americans.

The conversion would have been ideal earlier this year after the 30% drop in the stock market, but it still may make sense.

Biden has proposed raising the top long-term capital gains rate to 39.6% from the current 20% for taxpayers with more than $1 million in income.