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Posted Oct 20, 2020
Dangerous Days Ahead as President’s Mental Health Deterioration Coincides with Likely Election Loss
Interview with Dr. Bandy X. Lee, assistant clinical professor in law and psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted Oct 21, 2020
Trump Succeeds at Ending U.S. Census Early, Ensuring Costly Undercounts
Interview with Beth Lynk, director of the Census Counts campaign, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Posted Oct 21, 2020
Dark Money Funds Campaign Pushing Supreme Court to the Right
Interview with Lisa Graves, founder, executive director and editor-in-chief at True North Research, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted Oct 21, 2020
This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Oct. 21, 2020
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Glick has been an activist for more than 50 years. He is author of "Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left's Resistance to the Vietnam War."
@RestingDad @logicbot3000 @bubbaprog @govkristinoem Jail or citations make no sense when the punishing winter and flu season is upon us. Somehow people are woefully ignorant of how interconnected our 21st century world now is and this is a pandemic with a virus we have no immunity for.
@RestingDad @logicbot3000 @bubbaprog @govkristinoem How about less intubations, overrun ICU units & medical staff due to the virus' voracious contagiousness, less loved ones getting sick or dying alone w/o family near in hospitals far from home, or just dying at home to avoid costly bills. Over 220,000 dead already-been thru it
There are only 10 states where cases are not rising and have stayed low. https://t.co/YKbJivDTQl https://t.co/6pvaFD5BG7
In many states and across the U.S., the worst coronavirus outbreaks are in rural areas.
Counties of fewer than 10,000 people are seeing more coronavirus cases than at any other time during the pandemic. https://t.co/K8D9hFUeY8
Our U.S. tracking pages now show testing and hospitalization, giving a fuller picture.
In Ohio, where new cases are up about 63% over two weeks ago, testing is increasing but hospitalizations are also up — so more testing alone doesn't explain the rise. https://t.co/FIVeBY8Pek https://t.co/FaGSQMlhfY
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