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Spain reports smallest increase in virus deaths

Bloomberg Spain reported the smallest increase in coronavirus deaths in more than a month as the government prepares more steps to ease one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. Fatalities increased by 288, holding below 400 for the third day, and lower than the 378 recorded on April 25, according to data published by the Health Ministry. The daily death count ...

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Trump tweets virus briefings maybe ‘not worth the time’

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has been determined to talk his way through the coronavirus crisis, but frequent misstatements at his daily news conferences have caused a litany of public health and political headaches for the White House. Trump sought to clean up his briefing room riff from the day before about the possibility of fighting coronavirus infection in patients with ...

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Can the US government survive next disaster?

Among the many political shortcomings that the pandemic has laid bare is that the US suffers from constitutional and statutory gaps that make its democracy, and even its basic governing ability, vulnerable in an emergency. The good news? The hard thinking about this problem has mostly already been done. The bad news? No one who can do anything about it ...

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