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Die weltweite Lebenserwartung ist laut einer Studie von 1990 bis 2021 um 6,2 Jahre gestiegen. Allerdings habe die Corona-Pandemie zwischen 2019 und 2021 zu einer Verringerung der globalen Lebenserwartung geführt, schreiben Forschende um Simon Hay vom Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) der University of Washington im Fachblatt «The Lancet». In ihrer Studie zur globalen Belastung durch Krankheiten, Verletzungen und Risikofaktoren listen sie Covid-19 im Jahr 2021 als zweithäufigste Todesursache. 2019 waren die häufigsten Todesursachen demnach noch die gleichen wie 1990. «In abstei...
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Washington (AFP) - As colder weather sets in, Covid rates are once more rising across the Northern Hemisphere, with several new variants on the scene. Here's what you need to know. Covid versus seasonal nasties?The Covid pandemic extracted a terrible toll, with nearly seven million deaths worldwide. But thanks to vaccines, prior immunity and better treatments, the virus is now far more manageable. In the United States, excess deaths -- the total number of people dying for any given cause -- has been normal since spring. "If you asked me to choose between getting flu and Covid, I would pick...
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Washington (AFP) - When Joe Biden was criticized this week for failing to mask up after his wife caught Covid, he didn't just put a brave face on it. Rather, the 80-year-old US president did it again -- and then flaunted the fact that he was breaking the guidance. And by laughing it off the Democrat, who is running for re-election in 2024, showed he was in touch with Americans who are fed up with the pandemic. Biden first raised eyebrows on Tuesday by removing his mask while draping the Medal of Honor around the neck of an octogenarian Vietnam War veteran at the White House. Just hours earlier...
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Washington (AFP) - After a three-and-a-half year pandemic-era pause, US federal student loans start accumulating interest again from Friday, with repayments set to cut the monthly take-home pay of millions of Americans by hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of dollars. Joe Biden campaigned for president on a pledge to forgive at least $10,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans, and unveiled a $400 billion program to do just that after taking office. But on June 30, the US Supreme Court ruled that his administration had overstepped its authority, and struck down the student loan...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States lost more than $200 billion to fraud from two schemes designed to help small businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a US government watchdog report. "We identified multiple schemes used by fraudsters to steal from the American taxpayer and exploit programs meant to help those in need," the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a new report. The potentially fraudulent loans were disbursed through two Covid-19 programs, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said Monday that the national and public health emergencies declared just as the Covid-19 pandemic took grip three years ago will officially end May 11. The end to both federal emergency declarations, which took effect in January 2020 under then-president Donald Trump, will see funds used to subsidize Covid medicines, medical insurance and other types of government aid related to the pandemic come to an end. In practice, part of these government assistance programs has already dried up due to opposition from Congress. The remaining debate is largely political...
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Washington (AFP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr, son of the slain US presidential candidate, and other anti-vaccine activists have filed a lawsuit against several news organizations that have banded together to fight misinformation. The nearly 100-page complaint, filed this week in a US District Court in Texas, accuses the media outlets and social media companies of colluding to censor other online publishers with alternative Covid narratives. Besides Kennedy, the plaintiffs include an organization he founded, Children's Health Defense, right-wing news organizations that have promoted anti-vaccine th...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has filed a petition asking the state’s Supreme Court to authorize an investigation of “any wrongdoing” related to Covid-19 vaccines in Florida, his latest move to stoke fear and cast doubt about the safety and the effectiveness of vaccines. The governor requested the empaneling of a grand jury to look into pharmaceutical companies, their executives and medical association. DeSantis also announced he was launching a public health integrity committee to counter the current work of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Republican governor accused ...
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By The Conversation Two new omicron subvariants, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, are quickly gaining traction in the US, collectively accounting for 27% of infections as of October 29. Both are descendants of BA.5, the omicron variant that has dominated around the world for some months. Although they appear to be most common in the US at this stage, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have also been identified in the UK and several countries in Europe, with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) having classified BQ.1 as a variant of interest. Based on modelling estimates, the ECDC expects that by mid-Nov...
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By The Conversation BA.4.6, a subvariant of the omicron COVID variant which has been quickly gaining traction in the US, is now confirmed to be spreading in the UK. The latest briefing document on COVID variants from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) noted that during the week beginning August 14, BA.4.6 accounted for 3.3% of samples in the UK. It has since grown to make up around 9% of sequenced cases. Similarly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BA.4.6 now accounts for more than 9% of recent cases across the US. The variant has also been identified in several o...
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