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New York (AFP) - Sandra White normally has turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. But on Thursday, due to soaring inflation, she's going to have fried chicken instead. "It's too expensive, too expensive," the 70-year-old White, a resident of East Harlem, says of the traditional holiday bird. She asked her guests to bring other parts of the meal. It's the same story for fellow shopper Yeisha Swan, but she got lucky: one of her loved ones bought the family fowl, and she was able to cut costs on the side dishes, which for many are just as important as the main course. "This is way less than what I woul...
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Washington (AFP) - Faced with a doubling of Covid hospitalizations in recent months, US health authorities reiterated the need Tuesday for vaccine vigilance to fight the pandemic, even as the jabs' immunity against new Omicron subvariants remains unclear. The United States is recording some 5,100 coronavirus-related hospitalizations per day, "a doubling of hospital admissions since early May," Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky told a press briefing. The increase is linked to the meteoric rise of the Omicron variant's BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages, which wer...
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New York (AFP) - About 500 couples celebrated their unions under a blue sky Sunday in a New York event aimed at healing the wounds of the Covid-19 pandemic. Garlands on their heads, the couples, many of them already married, walked in procession before a symbolic ceremony by an imam, a rabbi and a pastor. Some could hardly hold back their tears. "We were supposed to get engaged on March 24, 2020 in Hawaii, but obviously the pandemic canceled everything," Erica Hackman told AFP, hanging on her husband Richard's arm in the festive atmosphere at Damrosch Park. The couple, who are expecting a ...
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Washington (AFP) - The Covid-19 pandemic took a toll on weddings in the United States, with only some 1.6 million marriages occurring in 2020 -- the lowest number since 1963, figures show. With many couples forced to postpone their nuptials, the number of unions in 2020 fell nearly 17 percent from the previous year, when some two million took place, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) said. But fear not, romantics -- the dip should be followed by an explosion in people walking down the aisle, with nearly 2.5 million ceremonies expected this year, according to The Wedding Report, a...
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Washington (AFP) - Two years into the pandemic, concerns around the effect of masks on the linguistic, emotional and social development of children are taking center stage. In the United States, calls to lift mask mandates at school have multiplied in recent weeks, including within the scientific community, at a time when new cases of Covid-19 are plunging. Scientific studies have shown that masks do indeed impact children's ability to recognize faces and emotions. As with adults, masks can also interfere with verbal communication. But experts are divided on the long-term effects on children'...
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Montreal (AFP) - Hundreds of Canadian truckers converged on Ottawa Friday for a major demonstration against vaccine mandates to cross the Canada-US border. Coming from as far as British Columbia on the Pacific coast, the "Freedom Convoy", as the truckers have named it, has been growing and drawing more attention in recent days. The meeting point for the weekend rally has been set for Parliament Hill, in the heart of the Canadian capital. Since mid-January, Canada and the United States have imposed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for truck drivers crossing the border between the two countries, th...
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New York (AFP) - About 100 protesters turned out in Manhattan Friday to demand the extension of a moratorium on rental evictions in New York state, a day before it was due to end. The moratorium, granted in spring of 2020 by then governor Andrew Cuomo, has been regularly extended since then, but current governor Kathy Hochul has declined to do so after it is due to expire on Saturday. "You cannot allow a moratorium to lapse in the middle of winter, during a COVID surge," said Jumaane Williams, a former Brooklyn council member and himself a candidate for the post of governor. As in previous day...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - The CES tech show in Las Vegas closed its 2022 edition on Friday, after pushing ahead with a significantly downsized gathering despite surging Covid cases. Industry behemoths like Amazon and Google stayed away over the virus risk, but the more than 2,200 firms big and small in attendance still pitched their hopes for the next big thing. Here are some parting highlights from the show: Mind control?French startup Wisear is working on technology that detects the signals that zip between the brain and certain muscles, in order to use them to operate connected devices. "Over the ...
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Washington (AFP) - Days out from Christmas, Americans are facing long lines to get tested for the coronavirus amid a new surge driven by the Omicron variant and a dire shortage of options for this vital screening measure. Scenes reminiscent of the first wave from the spring of 2020 played out across Boston, New York and California -- despite the country now facing its fifth wave. In the heart of the capital Washington, a free testing site a few blocks from the White House hadn't seen such crowds in a long time. A queue snaked all around the square and eventually led up to a group of small whi...
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New York (AFP) - With restaurants in Brooklyn closing in rapid succession and lines at Covid-19 test centers swelling by the day, fears are growing in New York of a return to the nightmare of 2020, when the city was the global epicenter of the pandemic. On Saturday, New York state announced a record number of daily cases for the second day in a row with almost 22,000 positive results. In Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood alone, more than a dozen bars and restaurants have had to close temporarily amid a recent surge in infections among their workers and patrons. Near popular McCarren Park, ar...
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