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Don t cash your stimulus payment (yet). Europe s decision to pull a vaccine may threaten global COVID-19 recovery efforts. And spoiler alert: Russia supported former president Donald Trump s reelection.
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Intel report: Russia was pro-Trump, and Iran was for anyone but
Russia and Iran engaged in multifaceted, covert influence campaigns aimed at swaying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a declassified assessment released Tuesday from the Director of National Intelligence. Here s the short version: Russia supported Trump s reelection and tried to tarnish President Joe Biden s candidacy. Iran, on the other hand, carried out a multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut Trump s reelection prospects though without directly promoting his rivals. Iran also tried to undermine Americans public confidence in the electoral pr
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COVAX, an international initiative tasked with ensuring more equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, aims to redress this imbalance by securing deals that send shots to low-income countries free of charge. (Pexels photo)
Lopsided distribution will cost lives, ding the global economy and perpetuate the pandemic
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. By the end of 2020, Canada bought up 338 million doses, enough to inoculate their population four times over. The United Kingdom snagged enough to cover a population three times its size. The United States reserved over 1.2 billion doses, and has already vaccinated about 14 percent of its residents.