Girl, 5, 'on borrowed time' dies with Covid as mum shares her utter heartbreak

Five-year-old Ruby Boston died with Covid-19

Ruby Boston, of Queensland, Australia, put up a fierce fight against Covid battling the virus for two weeks but her health eventually took a turn for the worst Five-year-old Ruby Boston, pictured with sister Sienna, tragically died with Covid-19 A mum has told of her heartbreak after her five-year-old daughter died with Covid. Ruby Boston’s … Read more

Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid

Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has tested positive for the coronavirus. Mr Shapps is the second Cabinet minister to test positive in five days after Secretary of State Liz Truss announced she was in isolation on Monday. Mr Shapps wrote on Twitter: “Tested positive for #COVID19 so I’m self-isolating and testing as needed.”

In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave

In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave

About a quarter of workers don’t get paid sick leave at work. (Jeffrey Greenberg / Education Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The … Read more

Why is it called stealth Covid? New Omicron subvariant spreading through Asia and Europe

Why is it called stealth Covid? New Omicron subvariant spreading through Asia and Europe

Scientists have called for calm after it was revealed a new Omicron subvariant is spreading through Asia and Europe The emergence of Omicron in December 2021 saw the introduction of tough anti-Covid measures, as it was able to multiply 70 times faster than the previous variant, Delta. Now, new data suggests ‘stealth Covid’ (BA.2) could … Read more

Latino Voters Moved To Trump Because Of COVID And ‘Socialism’

Latino Voters Moved To Trump Because Of COVID And ‘Socialism’

In the 2020 election, Latino voters swung toward former President Trump by 8 percentage points, the largest swing of any racial or ethnic group in the electorate. In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the co-founders of Equis Research — a political data firm focused on Latino voters — share their research on why … Read more

COVID, geopolitics make Olympics 2022 not so joyous for NBC

COVID, geopolitics make Olympics 2022 not so joyous for NBC

From a TV perspective, it feels as if the Beijing Olympics will end with NBC’s host Mike Tirico summoning his inner-Bill Belichick and saying, “We’re on to Paris.” That is where the network’s next Olympics, the 2024 Summer Games, will be held and perhaps — fingers crossed — we will have controlled the COVID-19 pandemic … Read more

U.K.’s Boris Johnson faces calls to resign after Covid lockdown parties report

U.K.’s Boris Johnson faces calls to resign after Covid lockdown parties report

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