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The View’s Whoopi Goldberg blasts Trump for going MIA on COVID: ‘He’s sitting around doing nothing’

"The View's" Whoopi Goldberg was furious at how bad things have become since the election with the coronavirus pandemic. The United States hit 250,000 COVID-19 deaths, a milestone that no country wants to reach. But what infuriated Goldberg the most is that President Donald Trump is nowhere to be found.

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Trump remains behind closed doors tweeting as the country faces the worst stretch yet of a public health crisis: report

According to the Washington Post's Toluse Olorunnipa, since the November 3rd election, President Trump's government, campaign and legal team have been "plagued by mistakes, oversights, rejections and defeats in a post-election period marked by unprecedented disarray."

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‘Completely checked out!’ CNN panel pummels Trump for doing ‘aggressively nothing’ to stop COVID after election loss

A CNN panel on Thursday pummeled President Donald Trump for literally doing nothing while the novel coronavirus pandemic kills thousands of Americans every day.

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Facebook moderators press for pandemic safety protections

More than 200 Facebook content moderators demanded better health and safety protections Wednesday as the social media giant called the workers back to the office during the pandemic.

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CNN's Chris Cuomo has a crisis of confidence as America hunger reaches records: 'We're consumed by suck'

Things suck, CNN's Chris Cuomo said in a conversation with fellow host Don Lemon on Wednesday. It comes amid the news that 50 million Americans are going to go hungry this year.

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Missouri health care worker tells shocking tales of COVID-positive people ‘lying’ about quarantine while shopping at Walmart

A health care worker in Missouri is breaking her silence on what she's experienced behind-the-scenes during the coronavirus pandemic now responsible for 250,000 lives in the United States.

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Biden gets emotional in Zoom call as nurse pleads for help: 'Our employers and government aren't supporting us'

Minnesota Nurses Association president Mary Turner works on the night-shift in a COVID-19 unit. Her story to President-elect Joe Biden leading some in the meeting, including Biden, to tear up.

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Capitol officials scold Martha McSally's staff for not wearing masks in their group goodbye photo

On Wednesday, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), one of the Republican senators to lose re-election and set to depart earlier than other senators due to special election rules, posed for a goodbye photo with her staff in the Capitol following her final speech in the Senate.

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Double lung transplants are allowing seriously ill patients to survive COVID-19's 'bomb blast'

CHICAGO — At a dark moment over the summer, Rodney Wegg was forced to consider removing his wife from life support. After testing positive for COVID-19 in July, Kari Wegg, a previously healthy nurse, worsened until she was placed on a ventilator and given a grim outlook for survival. “Give me some more time,” Wegg’s doctor told her husband, offering him and their two sons a glimmer of hope. Their perseverance paid off when, months later, Wegg, a 48-year-old neonatal intensive care unit nurse, awoke as the sixth COVID-19 patient at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to receive a groundbreaking lung tr...

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Nearly 12 million unemployed Americans to lose aid in December: study

Millions of Americans who lost their jobs to the mass layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be cut off from government aid at the end of December unless Congress acts, a study said on Wednesday.

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WATCH: Kayleigh McEnany calls restrictions to slow spread of coronavirus 'Orwellian' as US hits records

White House press secretary and Trump campaign spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany is calling new state restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus "Orwellian." Coronavirus cases and deaths are surging, in many cases hitting or breaking records.

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Pro-Trump coronavirus truthers try to invade Utah hospital overrun with COVID-19 patients: report

When President Donald Trump was voted out of office in the 2020 election, one of the top reasons why millions of U.S. residents voted to replace him with former Vice President Joe Biden was his woefully inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic. Regardless, so-called "coronavirus truthers" on the far right continue to insist that the pandemic is merely a hoax that President-elect Biden and other Democrats used to harm Trump's presidency. And at a Utah hospital that is being overrun with COVID-19 patients, the Daily Beast reports, health care workers are having to cope with extremists who don't even believe that the patients are sick.

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Nurse suspended after spreading COVID conspiracy theories and calling upcoming vaccine 'genocide'

Tracey McCallum, 45, a nurse who works at the Crosshouse Hospital in Ayrshire, Scotland, has been suspended from her job for spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories, according to the Daily Record. She has referred to the pandemic as a “scamdemic” — claiming, among other things, that face masks actually spread the virus.

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