Category: october 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump released a pre-recorded video posted after returning to the White House following his Walter Reed Medical Center stay due to testing positive for COVID-19 last week. Trump told Americans he was feeling much better and not to let COVID-19 “dominate you.” He went on to tout medical equipment and treatments he said are being made available and said “they” will be able to beat it. He added that having had COVID-19, “maybe I’m immune?” Trump’s comments came after he had been admitted on Friday to Walter Reed Medical Center. His medical team, including physician Dr. Sean Conley, said between early Friday and Monday, Trump had received supplemental oxygen twice. They said he was also on remdesivir and dexamethasone and had been given an experimental antibody cocktail on Friday before his trip to Walter Reed, made by the company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
President Trump returned to the White House following his hospitalization due to coronavirus and removed his mask despite still being contagious.
Dr. James Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s motorcade photo-op as something which could endanger lives of Secret Service agents who accompanied him in his SUV.
There’s a worrying picture of mental health during this pandemic, as new research shows anxiety and depression levels are rising among Canadians.
Exactly 4 years ago today, Pres. Trump mocked Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia — he has now contracted COVID-19, a virus he has suggested only impacts people who are already unhealthy.
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The 2020 BC Election, Explained
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When we think of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, we might imagine bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins or the March on Washington. Most of us won’t think of protests at beaches and pools. Yet these battles in the country’s waters played a crucial role in transforming America.The campaign in the waters of St. Augustine, Florida, became one of the most critical in the movement to desegregate the US. The photos were published around the world, but the full story has often been left out of our history textbooks. And now, the legacy of segregated public waters continues to this day.