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• Ron DeSantis is drawing Democrats out of the equation in Florida

  14-04-2022 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  It's a strange time to be a Democrat in Florida.
  
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• Analysis: Ron DeSantis is drawing Democrats out of the equation in Florida

  14-04-2022 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  It's a strange time to be a Democrat in Florida.
  
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• Analysis: Donald Trump's fingerprints are all over the RNC debate decision

  14-04-2022 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  The Republican National Committee's decision Thursday to withdraw from its participation in the organization that has long managed presidential debates has Donald Trump's fingerprints all over it.
  
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• Subway shooting suspect denied bail on federal terrorism-related charge

  14-04-2022 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: America's 'Gun Lady' relives the tragedy of another mass shooting
  • Suspected Brooklyn subway shooter called in a tip on himself and was arrested about an hour later
  • Video shows subway shooting suspect arrested
  
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• More Rigging Exposed: Zuck Spent Mind-Boggling Amount in Georgia, More Than Enough to Buy the 12K Votes Trump Lost By

  14-04-2022 23:15
  
  This article was sponsored by Citizens United Productions.
  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg knew the state of Georgia would be critical during the 2020 presidential election. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that he spent large swaths of money there to help Joe Biden.
  The film “Rigged” exposes Zuckerberg’s plot to use his wealth to the advantage of Democrats during the election. It is out right now, and you can get your copy here for just $4.99.
  The Georgia Democratic Party clai
  
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• Anti-Trump Saudi Prince Moves to Stop Elon Musk's Liberation of Twitter

  14-04-2022 23:00
  
  Elon Musk could be the dark horse savior of free speech, but a nemesis of former President Donald Trump is intent on making sure that doesn’t happen.
  The billionaire Tesla mogul made a play for Twitter earlier this month when he became the majority shareholder with a 9.2 percent stake — but he upped the ante with an offer to buy the social media company outright on Thursday.
  This predictably made the left apoplectic, given Musk’s outspoken support of free speech on the platform
  
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• Trump-backed House candidate faces backlash from Tennessee Republicans

  14-04-2022 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  Republican state legislators and party officials in Tennessee are using every conceivable tool to try to throw a House candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump off the ballot, passing a new residency requirement for congressional candidates and challenging her Republican bona fides.
  
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• Sanitation Worker Saves Elderly Woman with Dementia Missing in Below-Freezing Temperatures

  14-04-2022 22:47
  
  Macario Chism of Missouri spends most of his days as a sanitation worker with Waste Pro USA, taking care of people’s trash. But on one day in January, that very job led him to become a hero.
  On that day, 82-year-old Thelma Bates had gone missing at 3 a.m., triggering a Silver Alert. The woman suffers from dementia, and her family was terrified for her safety.
  It also happened that it was only 16 degrees the morning she disappeared, and she hadn’t been wearing any shoes.
  “Oh I w
  
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• Family of unarmed Black man fatally shot during traffic stop in Michigan calls for prosecution of officer

  14-04-2022 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  The family of a Michigan man who was shot and killed by a police officer earlier this month during a traffic stop reiterated their call for the termination and prosecution of the officer during a news conference on Thursday.
  
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• 'Blessing and a Miracle': Air Guardsmen Training at Aquatic Center Save Drowning Infant's Life

  14-04-2022 22:39
  
  One infant in Louisville, Kentucky, is alive today thanks to the expert training and quick actions of several members of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron.
  The squadron had been wrapping up a training session at the Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center on March 15 when one of them spotted something amiss.
  A nearby swim instructor was holding a baby, but the instructor had an odd look on his face that tipped off Master Sgt. Devin Butcher to the fact that something w
  
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• New York revives gifted and talented program with major expansion

  14-04-2022 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  New York City is expanding its controversial gifted and talented student program.
  
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• 'Deception, Deceit and Selfishness': Sheriff Slams Mother Who Confessed to Faking Her Own Kidnapping

  14-04-2022 22:25
  
  A 39-year-old mother of two apologized Tuesday while admitting she’d faked her own kidnapping in California six years ago, but the county sheriff ripped the effort as disingenuous.
  According to The U.S. Sun, Sherri Papini disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016, while jogging in Redding, California.
  When she re-appeared 22 days later, she said she had been kidnapped by two armed Hispanic women and held captive for over three weeks.
  Shasta County police launched a six-year investigation and found Papin
  
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• DeSantis signed Florida's 15-week abortion ban bill. He may be in for a rude awakening.

  14-04-2022 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Florida Constitution currently vigorously protects a woman's right to end an unwanted pregnancy.
  
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• Coach Sounds the Alarm After Trans Opponent Injures 3 Female Players in a Single Game

  14-04-2022 22:06
  
  A high school ruby league in Guam is being criticized after a transgender athlete injured three female players in a match over the weekend.
  The transgender athlete, who is a male identifying as a female, played on Guam High School’s female rugby squad.
  While playing Tiyan High School, the male player injured three female players from Tiyan, according to head coach Conrad Kerber, the Washington Examiner reported.
  According to Kerber, the male athlete’s body, size and force were simply
  
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• Musk's Offer for Twitter Leaves Liberals Reeling, Washington Post Writer Sees Censorship as Essential to Democracy

  14-04-2022 21:49
  
  Late Sunday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the stunning news that billionaire Elon Musk had decided not to join the company’s board of directors.
  It took about a nanosecond for sheer panic to set in among the liberal elites.
  They were acutely aware that the free-speech absolutist was likely setting himself up to make an even bigger move, one that might rob them of their greatest advantage: the ability to control the news Americans are allowed to hear.
  According to documents fil
  
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• Michigan Police Release Video of Lethal Officer-Involved Shooting, Protests and Antifa Calls for Violence Erupt

  14-04-2022 21:21
  
  Newly released video footage shows a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, fatally shooting a man, sparking protests and even calls for violence.
  Following a traffic stop on April 4, Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old black man, ran from his vehicle, resulting in a struggle in which the officer shot him in the head while on top of him, WEYI-TV reported.
  The shooting happened roughly three minutes after the officer pulled Lyoya over for a license plate violation.
  On Wednesday, the Grand Rapids Poli
  
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• Criminal charges refiled against Missouri duck boat employees involved in fatal 2018 capsizing

  14-04-2022 21:01 via cnn.com
  
  Missouri's attorney general has refiled involuntary manslaughter charges against three tour boat employees involved in the 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, that left 17 people dead, court documents show.
  
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• Legislature Overrides Democratic Governor's Veto of Bills That Crack Down on Abortion and Trans Competitors in Girls' Sports

  14-04-2022 20:17
  
  In two big wins for Republicans, the Kentucky state legislature voted Wednesday to override Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes of bills banning transgender athletes from competing in female sports and protecting unborn children.
  With GOP lawmakers’ vote to override Beshear’s veto of the Save Women’s Sports legislation, Kentucky became the sixth state this year and the 15th overall to prohibit men and boys who identify as female from competing against girls and women, NBC News rep
  
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• Ron DeSantis Signs Strong Pro-Life Legislation Into Law, Banning Abortion After 15 Weeks

  14-04-2022 20:05
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act into law on Thursday, banning abortions 15 weeks into pregnancy in the state.
  Sponsors of the law in the Florida Senate are citing scientific findings on the development of babies, with research indicating those aborted 15 weeks into pregnancy can in fact feel pain.
  “This bill safeguards innocent, unborn children with beating hearts, who can move, taste, see, feel pain, and whose lives should be protected under th
  
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• Second family to hold first known Passover Seder at vice president's residence

  14-04-2022 19:48 via cnn.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Friday will become the first known second family to host a Passover Seder at the vice president's residence, a White House official says, a continuation of their efforts to celebrate Emhoff's Jewish faith.
  
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• After 'The View' Host Joy Behar Goes on Gun-Grabbing Rant, Second Amendment Expert Fact-Checks Her Into Oblivion

  14-04-2022 19:41
  
  On Tuesday, 10 people were shot at a subway station in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, according to CNN. Several more were injured. No one has died, thankfully, and police arrested the suspect on Wednesday afternoon.
  Little is known for sure about what happened, but that doesn’t mean the cast of “The View” wasn’t going to have a big thinky about it — because, at a confusing, divisive moment like this, that’s just what America needed.
  I’ve seen the
  
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• Stephen Miller expected to meet with January 6 committee today

  14-04-2022 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller is expected to appear Thursday before the House committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection, a source familiar with the meeting tells CNN.
  
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• DeSantis signs Florida's 15-week abortion ban into law

  14-04-2022 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Thursday a Mississippi-style anti-abortion measure that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exemptions for rape, incest or human trafficking.
  
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• Democratic Insiders Quietly Admit Longtime Senator Is in Serious Mental Decline

  14-04-2022 19:23
  
  Concerned Democrats are whispering about the cognitive decline of powerful Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a progressive who represents California.
  Party insiders spoke of their concerns to the San Francisco Chronicle, recounting incidents of memory loss in conversations with Feinstein.
  “It’s bad, and it’s getting worse,” one Democratic senator told the newspaper.
  Another anonymous insider identified as a lawmaker by the Chronicle admitted that Feinstein’s capabilities have
  
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• Schumer Says He's Been Talking with Biden About Student Loans, And America Should Be Alarmed

  14-04-2022 19:04
  
  American taxpayers could be footing the bill for up to $50,000 per borrower in student debt forgiveness — at least if Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is to be believed.
  On Wednesday, the Democratic leader in the upper chamber of Congress said the White House was closer to major student debt forgiveness “than ever before.”
  “I have talked personally to the president on this issue a whole bunch of times,” Schumer said in a virtual address during the St
  
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• Suspected Serial Rapist Finally Arrested After Months-Long Spree

  14-04-2022 18:44
  
  A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of rapes in the area of West Springfield, Massachusetts.
  Ali Ghaffar has been arrested in connection with multiple rapes from June 2021 through March, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said.
  The incident that became critical to catching a suspect took place on March 24 and followed a pattern similar to the other assaults, according to WCVB-TV.
  The woman told police she was picked up in Springfield, then driven to a remote ar
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg Missing from 'The View' After Outbursts: 'She's Gone for a While'

  14-04-2022 18:29
  
  Whoopi Goldberg is taking a leave of absence from “The View” — but not, as it turns out, as a well-earned forced vacation after a series of outbursts that would have ended the tenure of any of the show’s token conservatives.
  Instead, according to the entertainment news site Extra, she’s leaving the show for a bit to film a streaming series in Scotland.
  (At The Western Journal, we’ve noted Whoopi’s numerous offensive outbursts — and the double-stand
  
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• 5 savings mistakes people often make when building their financial life

  14-04-2022 18:19 via cnn.com
  
  The road to financial independence is not easy, and usually requires patience and diligence early on.
  
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• 5 savings mistakes people make when building their financial life

  14-04-2022 18:19 via cnn.com
  
  The road to financial independence is not easy, and usually requires patience and diligence early on.
  
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• Justices Ginsburg and O'Connor will get statues on US Capitol grounds

  14-04-2022 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  Former US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get statues on the grounds of the US Capitol after President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bipartisan bill into law to erect them.
  
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• Biden to focus on countering China during stop in North Carolina

  14-04-2022 17:45 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday is expected to push Congress to pass legislation aimed at countering China's growing economic influence by investing in US manufacturing, technology, research and development.
  
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• NFL Legend Responds to Critics Mad He Backed DeSantis' Fatherhood Bill: 'Obama Said the Same Things Almost Verbatim'

  14-04-2022 17:41
  
  NFL legend Tony Dungy, who as a star player and coach exuded class and dedication, on Wednesday deflated critics who attacked him for appearing with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  The former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts attended a news conference at which DeSantis announced the state was putting up $70 million in its “Responsible Fatherhood” program to fund programs in which community-based agencies work with men who have drifted away from their children
  
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• New Poll: Biden's Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Point of His Presidency - Hispanic Voters Fleeing in Droves

  14-04-2022 16:59
  
  President Joe Biden’s approval rate continues to plummet as a new poll shows that only about one in four Hispanic voters think Biden – who is presiding over a vast flood of illegal immigrants into America – is doing a good job.
  The Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed that overall, 33 percent of respondents approve of Biden’s work, while 54 percent disapprove.  That’s not changed much from a January poll that showed 33 percent approving —
  
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• News of Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Attempt Triggers Vulgar Meltdown from Leftists

  14-04-2022 16:52
  
  Musk Derangement Syndrome was in full swing Thursday after the news hit that Elon Musk was seeking to buy all of Twitter’s stock and turn the social media giant into a privately owned company.
  Max Boot, a columnist with The Washington Post, predicted catastrophe if Twitter goes private and allows anything to be said.
  “I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, w
  
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• Biden Laptop Content Will Be Soon Released in Full to the Public, Whistleblower Says

  14-04-2022 16:40
  
  For better or worse, you likely will be able to see everything on Hunter Biden’s infamous, begrimed laptop.
  According to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, the whistleblower who provided the British publication and other outlets with a copy of Hunter’s laptop data will be putting it all online — meaning you can see it all, depending on what your stomach can handle.
  (Of course, the establishment media pretended that the laptop was “Russian disinformation” when they were or
  
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• Kamala Harris Is Asked What Administration Is Doing to Fight Inflation, Listen to Her Jaw-Dropping Response

  14-04-2022 16:23
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris visited the city of Brotherly Love on Tuesday to address members of the Sheet Metal Workers Association and to meet with union leaders.
  Earlier that day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had released the March Consumer Price Index, which pegged year-over-year inflation at a whopping 8.5 percent.
  During an interview that followed her speech, with Tamala Edwards of Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV, Harris was asked what steps the Biden administration is taking to fight
  
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• Sikhs are suing the US Marine Corps for the right to wear their turbans and beards

  14-04-2022 15:40 via cnn.com
  
  Four Sikhs are suing the US Marine Corps over restrictions that effectively force them to choose between their career and their faith.
  
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• Now We Know the Truth About Major's Biting Attack - Psaki's Disclosure to the Public Infuriated Secret Service Victim

  14-04-2022 15:29
  
  A hallmark of the Biden administration is deflecting blame and blatantly lying about serious issues such as its responsibility for historic inflation, its inept coronavirus response and the catastrophic border crisis.
  However, this White House even lies about trivial matters, such as dog bites committed by President Joe Biden’s pet, Major.
  According to records obtained by Judicial Watch, the canine bit numerous Secret Service agents during Biden’s disastrous first year in office.
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• Elon Musk Announces Unprecedented Bid to Buy 100% of Twitter: 'I Will Unlock It'

  14-04-2022 14:58
  
  After days of letting the world dangle by a string amid speculation of his intentions concerning the social media giant Twitter, Elon Mush revealed the end game on Thursday.
  “I made an offer,” he tweeted as he announced his intent to buy up all of Twitter’s stock, linking to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that begins with standard bureaucratic language and closes with quintessential Musk.
  Musk currently owns 9.2 percent of Twitter stock in a deal announced earlier
  
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• Star Dodgers Pitcher Yanked from Mound 7 Innings Into a Perfect Game

  14-04-2022 14:52
  
  This can’t be good for baseball.
  The Los Angeles Dodgers pulled ace pitcher Clayton Kershaw after seven innings of a perfect game on Wednesday, costing the southpaw a chance to make baseball history.
  A perfect game consists of a pitcher dismissing every batter of the opposing team without a single hitter reaching base.
  There have only been 23 perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball.
  Kershaw had dismissed every Minnesota Twins batter seven innings into the contest, racking up
  
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• Surge in Homeschooling Continues Even After Schools Have Reopened: 'A Whole New World That Is Much Better'

  14-04-2022 14:25
  
  The coronavirus pandemic ushered in what might be the most rapid rise in homeschooling the U.S. has ever seen. Two years later, even after schools reopened, many parents have chosen to continue directing their children’s educations themselves.
  Homeschooling numbers this year dipped from last year’s all-time high but are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Associated Press.
  Families that may have turned to homeschooling as an a
  
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• Just Months After Chris Wallace Turned on Audience, Big Failure at CNN Reportedly Set Off 'Daily Breakdowns' and Strange Rituals

  14-04-2022 14:06
  
  There’s an old idiom, “The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence.” It cautions against making an envious and perhaps mistaken comparison between a current situation and a potential new opportunity.
  Veteran news anchor Chris Wallace must have forgotten that nugget of wisdom. In December 2021, Wallace left his secure position at top-rated Fox News and joined the failing “competitor” CNN.
  Now, rumors suggest Wallace is unhappy and insecure in his ne
  
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• Americans can't afford gas. That's bad news for beef jerky

  14-04-2022 13:48 via cnn.com
  
  Gas doesn't just fuel cars, it also powers Marlboros, Red Bull, and Doritos.
  
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• Pfizer says booster in children 5-11 raises antibodies against omicron

  14-04-2022 12:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Can 5 year olds get Covid vaccine: A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine for children ages 5 through 11 raised antibody levels, Pfizer said.
  
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• Released Footage Appears to Show Suspect Shortly Before Subway Attack

  14-04-2022 12:46
  
  Hours before the arrest of the man suspected in Tuesday’s brutal attack inside a New York City subway car, footage emerged that was reportedly taken of him making his way into what became an underground shooting gallery.
  The location of the footage was not reported, but according to CBS News, it shows 62-year-old Frank James shortly before the shooting started.
  James was arrested early Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood, according to The Associated Press.
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• CDC launches review of agency's structure and systems

  14-04-2022 12:32 via cnn.com
  
  As a sweeping review of the nation's premier public health agency commences this week, interviews by CNN with more than a dozen people close to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal an agency in need of serious changes to make it more nimble and ready to respond to the next pandemic.
  
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• Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter, says company ‘needs to be transformed’

  14-04-2022 12:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter.
  
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• Hundreds are still dying from Covid every day. Why is Paxlovid sitting on shelves?

  14-04-2022 11:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Paxlovid, a Covid antiviral pill from Pfizer, is not commonly being prescribed by doctors despite an ample supply and hundreds of people dying from Covid every day.
  
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• An effective, potentially lifesaving Covid treatment is going unused, experts say

  14-04-2022 11:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Paxlovid, a Covid antiviral pill from Pfizer, is not commonly being prescribed by doctors despite an ample supply and hundreds of people dying from Covid every day.
  
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• Shanghai reports record virus cases as Xi says no change in ‘zero-Covid’ strategy

  14-04-2022 10:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shanghai reported a record 27,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the country must continue its strict pandemic control measures.
  
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