UK coronavirus variant appears to be more deadly, study suggests, but more research is needed CNN 3/10/2021 By Jacqueline Howard, CNN © Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Critical Care staff carry out a tracheostomy procedure on a Covid-19 patient on the Christine Brown ward at King s College Hospital in London on January 27, 2021.
The coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, which was first identified in the United Kingdom, is associated with an estimated 64% higher risk of dying from Covid-19, suggests new research published in a peer-reviewed journal. © Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images AsiaPac/Getty Images SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Registered Nurse Laxman Adhikari conducts a nasal swab test in the clinical assessment room at St George Hospital COVID-19/ Flu Assessment Clinic on May 15, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. St George Hospital has been operating a COVID-19 and flu assessment clinic since 19 March 2020. Since being set up in response to the global
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Hit TV show It s A Sin exposes failure to learn the lessons of the past CNN 2/16/2021 © Ben Blackall/HBO Max
A man lies alone in a hospital bed, frightened and cut off from most of his family and friends, while the outside world grapples with the growing threat of an unfamiliar virus. As he lies stricken, he is cared for by doctors and nurses dressed head to toe in PPE. Eventually he begs for his mother to make him better and asks her through tears if everyone who has contracted this disease has died.
But this isn t a sequence in a news report from an overwhelmed Covid ward. The year is 1985 and this is a scene from It s a Sin, a searing British television miniseries that explores the AIDS crisis over a ten-year period through the lens of those that lived it.
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Ghana mourns ex-leader Rawlings at state funeral © Getty Images Traditional funeral rites for the former president have been performed
The state funeral of Ghana s longest serving leader, Jerry John Rawlings, is taking place in the capital, Accra.
During a turbulent career, he led two coups before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
He died in November at the age of 73 of an undisclosed illness, but his funeral was delayed - in part by political squabbling.
The ceremony began at Independence Square, with numbers attending limited by coronavirus restrictions. © Getty Images Funeral guests wore masks to stop the spread of coronavirus
The Challenges Posed By COVID-19 Pushed Many Workers to Strike. Will the Labor Movement See Sustained Interest? Time 1/17/2021 Abigail Abrams © Al Seib Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Nurses and licensed medical professionals picket in front of Los Robles Regional Medical Center to raise concerns over lack of COVID-19 testing for patients and staff, continued insufficient PPE and dangerous lack of staff on duty, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Nov. 30, 2020.
Cerue Cotton never expected to find herself on a picket line. As a forklift operator for Cash-Wa, a regional food distributor in Fargo, North Dakota, she enjoyed the physical challenges and responsibility of her job, and was used to working overnight hours. But this fall, everything changed.
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