by Jim Heath | Dec 21, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden received the first dose of his COVID-19 vaccine in Delaware on today, posing for the cameras as a local nurse administrated the shot. ‘There is nothing to worry about,’ he said as he reassured the public the vaccine was safe....
by Jim Heath | Dec 20, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has launched an attack on coronavirus vaccines, even suggesting that the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into crocodiles or bearded ladies. The far-right leader, often called the ‘Trump of South...
by Jim Heath | Dec 16, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The Trump administration is scrambling to use its power to free up supplies of raw materials to help Pfizer produce tens of millions of additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for Americans in the first half of next year. Should an agreement be struck, it could at...
by Jim Heath | Dec 16, 2020 | coronavirus, Economy, Headlines
The U.S. poverty rate has surged over the past five months, with 7.8 million Americans falling into poverty, the latest indication of how deeply many are struggling after government aid dwindled. WAPO: The poverty rate jumped to 11.7 percent in November, up 2.4...
by Jim Heath | Dec 15, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Religion
Multimillionaire televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch took $4.4 million in bailouts as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 relief program for small businesses. The evangelical church, which is based in Houston, Texas and is one of the...
