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Thousands of bikers to be blocked at tribal land checkpoints
Jerry Falwell Jr. placed on indefinite leave
Pope appoints six women to top roles on Vatican council
There may never be a "silver bullet" for Covid-19
US navy condemns video with dogs attacking man in Kaepernick shirt
Twitter bans white supremacist David Duke
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Fauci says family has faced threats, harassment amid pandemic
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said he and his family are getting death threats because people don’t like what he says about COVID-19.
There may never be a "silver bullet" for Covid-19
There might never be a “silver bullet” for Covid-19 in the form of a perfect vaccine, and the road to normality could be long, the World Health Organization has said.
71,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year
I think you can trust me
Amtlich: USA treten offiziell aus WHO aus
Young people are throwing coronavirus parties
Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties, a disturbing competition where people who have coronavirus attend and the first person to get infected receives a payout, local officials said.
‘Window is closing’ to stop coronavirus as US cases pass 2.5m
US health secretary Alex Azar has warned that “the window is closing” on the country’s chance to take action to effectively curb the coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases surpassed 2.5m.
Trump visits golf course as US battles rapid surge in coronavirus cases
Donald Trump visited one of his own private golf courses in Virginia on Saturday as America continued to see fallout from a rapid surge in coronavirus cases. The trip came a day after the US president said he would stay in Washington DC to “make sure law and order is enforced” amid ongoing anti-racism protests.
Trump claims 1m want tickets for Tulsa rally opposed by top health official
Donald Trump claimed that “one million people” had requested tickets for his campaign rally in Tulsa this weekend. The Tulsa World newspaper, however, backed the city’s top public health official in asking the president not to come.
Zahl der Infektionen in Peking steigt weiter rapide an
Binnen weniger Stunden gab es in Chinas Hauptstadt dutzende neue Corona-Fälle, offenbar sind sie alle auf einen Großmarkt zurückzuführen. Die Behörden reagieren drastisch.
Health care advocates push back against Trump’s erasure of transgender rights
Health advocates representing American hospitals, medical groups, insurers and civil rights associations condemned the Trump administration on Saturday for rolling back protections for transgender patients, and for doing so amid a global pandemic.
Fauci describes the virus as his ‘worst nightmare’
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, delivered a grim assessment of the devastation wrought around the world by the virus, describing Covid-19 on Tuesday as his “worst nightmare” — a new, highly contagious respiratory infection that causes a significant rate of illness and death.
The Secret Plan to Unwithdraw From the WHO After Trump’s “Bizarre,” “Ruinous” Exit
On the afternoon of Friday, May 29, in a Rose Garden press conference whose ostensible subject was China, President Donald Trump dropped a surprise, seemingly off-topic bombshell: The U.S. government, he declared, was cutting ties with the World Health Organization.
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Jürgen Klopp zum Fußball-Manager des Jahres gewählt
Jürgen Klopp ist nach dem Gewinn der Meisterschaft mit dem FC Liverpool von seinen Trainerkollegen zum Fußball-Manager des Jahres in England gewählt worden. Der Coach erhielt die Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy für seine herausragenden Leistungen. Klopp hatte Liverpool in der abgelaufenen Saison zum ersten Meistertitel seit 30 Jahren geführt. "Das ist sehr besonders für mich, weil ich von meinen Kollegen gewählt worden bin", sagte Klopp. Ferguson, der einst Manchester United zur Weltmarke formte, hob die "außerordentliche" Leistung von Klopps Team hervor. "Du hast es absolut verdient".
Lovren und Lallana verlassen Liverpool
Der kroatische Nationalspieler Dejan Lovren und Adam Lallana verlassen den von Jürgen Klopp trainierten englischen Fußballmeister FC Liverpool. Nach sechs Jahren bei den Reds wechselt der 31 Jahre alte Innenverteidiger Lovren in die russische Premjer-Liga zu Zenit St. Petersburg. Das gaben beide Clubs bekannt. Beim russischen Meister unterschrieb Lovren einen Dreijahresvertrag bis 2023. Lallana zieht es indes zu Brighton and Hove Albion. Beim Premier-League-15. erhält der 32-Jährige einen Dreijahresvertrag.
Peter Navarro’s op-ed on Dr Anthony Fauci “misleading.”
Bill Sternberg added a note to the top of the op-ed saying the editors chose to publish the op-ed because it was “newsworthy,” considering the White House’s recent attacks on Fauci’s credibility. But Sternberg added, “However, several of Navarro’s criticisms of Fauci — on the China travel restrictions, the risk from the coronavirus and falling mortality rates — were misleading or lacked context. As such, Navarro’s op-ed did not meet USA TODAY’s fact-checking standards.” Navarro said Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, had been “wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.”
351 registrierte Corona-Neuinfektionen
Die Gesundheitsämter in Deutschland haben 351 neue Corona-Infektionen innerhalb eines Tages (15.7.) gemeldet. Damit waren seit Beginn mindestens 199.726 Menschen in Deutschland nachweislich mit dem Virus Sars-CoV-2 infiziert. In Deutschland starben bislang 9.071 mit dem Virus infizierte Menschen - das bedeutet ein Plus von 3 im Vergleich zum Vortag. 186.000 Menschen haben die Infektion überstanden. Die Reproduktionszahl, kurz R-Wert, lag bei 1,02 (Vortag: 1,06). Das bedeutet, dass ein Infizierter im Mittel etwa einen weiteren Menschen ansteckt.
