Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
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Trump Said People Don’t Die From the Flu — but It Killed His Grandfather

What Frederick Trump’s death, in 1918, tells us about the costs of mismanaging a pandemic.
Analysis: Why coronavirus pressures prompted Australia’s biggest states to rebel against Morrison

Prime Minister Scott Morrison strongly disagrees with decisions to close schools, but that didn’t stop Australia’s largest states from moving to pre-empt him, writes Conor Duffy.
‘Language carries our custom’: the keepers of Torres Strait’s traditional lingo

Phillemon Mosby works on Poruma to strengthen the sleeping Kulkalgau Ya language he was taught by his grandmother
In a community garden on the island of Poruma in the late 1980s, Lillah Pearson never stopped speaking Kulkalgau Ya to her grandson, Phillemon Mosby.
Kulkalgau Ya, spoken on the central islands of the Torres Strait, is one of the four dialects of the Kala Lagaw Ya language.
Over 195,000 people in U.S. have been tested for coronavirus, received results: official
FEMA Declares New York a ‘Major Disaster’: Live Updates

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said one million face masks were being sent to hospitals in New York City and another 500,000 to Long Island.
Britain hires ex-Nestle executive to run food security ‘war room’: Sky
French designer gives away homemade masks during Covid-19 crisis

Brigitte Thivet posts advice on how to make colourful masks for people in lockdown
French people confined to their homes during the national lockdown are being encouraged to engage in some not so haute couture during the coronavirus crisis.
A freelance designer has posted advice on how to make colourful face masks and is offering to give some she has made away for free.
Google Gives Cover to Trump’s Lies

If one of the most powerful tech companies can’t call out the president’s dishonesty, who can?
Doctors and Nurses Are Just as Anxious as You Are

Our colleagues could soon be our patients.

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