Thursday News: "Don't count on vaccine, US scientist warns, as cases pass 5m"; "Lockdown Delays Cost

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Thursday News: “Don’t count on vaccine, US scientist warns, as cases pass 5m”; “Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives”; “Trump’s economy is a disaster”; “Record Numbers Vote Absentee In Virginia’s Local Elections”

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By lowkell -
May 21, 2020 1

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 21. clickable inks at cite}

Global report: don’t count on vaccine, US scientist warns, as cases pass 5m (“Brazil reports nearly 20,000 infections in one day; Trump says he’ll stop taking hydroxychloroquine in two days; Lufthansa in rescue talks”)

Brazil Is The New Epicenter Of The Global Coronavirus Pandemic (“Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s denial and incompetence have led to a predictable surge in cases.” Trump’s doppelganger – extreme, incompetent, ignorant, etc.)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Plunge in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic (“A new study finds that carbon dioxide emissions fell as much as 17 percent, but the annual 5 percent projected for this year won’t have a long-term climate effect.” But it does tend to indicate what we *could* do if we got serious.)

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1. Not Invented Here. I Hope For A Vaccine

But thanks to the foul-ups endemic to this administration, I suspect that it
‘S likely to be developed by somebody on foreign soil.