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President Trump called on members of Congress to amend the COVID stimulus bill they passed in the wee hours of Tuesday morning; Trump wants lawmakers to increase the amount of each stimulus check from $600 per person to $2,000. (
CNN)
In the meantime, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the purchase of an additional 100 million doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine, and also announced an agreement in conjunction with the Department of Defense to give Merck $356 million to continue developing its COVID-19 treatment MK-7110.
Hospitals are facing a shortage of doctors and nurses due to the pandemic, and California is reaching out to foreign countries to help fill the gap. (
Sharon Escobar couldnât recognize her father.
His face was so badly decomposed that she and her mother were eventually able to identify him only because of a scar on his leg.
Ms. Escobar had paid a funeral home in Brooklyn to tend to the remains of her father, Elisha Magosha, after he died in mid-April from complications of Covid-19.
Two weeks later she learned that his body had been disintegrating alongside more than a dozen others inside two U-Haul trucks parked in front of the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, a small building squeezed between a sex shop and a dollar store.