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Pfizer Agrees To Slash U.S. Drug Prices In Medicaid Deal

October 1, 2025 9:21 am

The Trump administration has secured a landmark agreement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer aimed at easing the burden of prescription drug costs for low-income Americans. Under the deal, Pfizer will sell its medications to Medicaid patients at the same lowest prices offered in other wealthy countries, a shift that could significantly narrow the long-standing gap between U.S. drug costs and those abroad.

New medicines launched by the company will also debut in the U.S. at prices matching those in other developed nations. For years, American consumers have paid more than triple the cost of brand-name drugs compared with their counterparts overseas, …

31.3m Americans Receive Jobless Benefits, 1.2m New

August 6, 2020 3:42 pm

Nearly 1.2 million Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs.

The Labor Department’s report Thursday marked the 20th straight week that at least 1 million people have sought jobless aid.

All told, the Labor Department said Thursday that 31.3 million people are receiving some form of unemployment benefits, though the figure may be inflated by double-counting by states.

Before the pandemic hit hard in March, the number of Americans seeking unemployment checks had never surpassed 700,000 in a week, not even during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

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Stimulus Proposal: $2k Check And $1k Per Month Explained

May 1, 2020 2:37 am

The CARES Act provided many Americans with financial relief in the form of a $1,200 stimulus check. But as that program rolls out, it has become apparent to lawmakers that more financial assistance is needed. There are currently several proposals from various lawmakers that would provide Americans with ongoing financial support. You can learn more about current proposals here.

Now you can add the Automatic BOOST to Communities (ABC) Act proposal, which was introduced by Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

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Almost 50,000 Americans Are Dead From Coronavirus

April 24, 2020 7:27 am

Almost 50,000 Americans have been killed in the United States by the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

According to John Hopkins University, 49,963 Americans have died of Coronavirus.

According to Analysis from CNN’s Zachary B. Wolf, close to 50,000 people have now died of coronavirus in the United States tens of tens of thousands more will die.

By this time next week, it seems very possible that more people will have died in the US of Covid-19 than the 58,000 who died in nearly of decade of fighting in Vietnam.

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Thousands Of Hungry, Jobless Americans Beg For Food

April 19, 2020 2:26 pm

Jobless Americans squeezed by the coronavirus pandemic are turning more and more to food banks to get by, waiting hours for donations in lines of cars stretching as far as the eye can see.

And with 22 million people out of work seemingly overnight as business after business closes under the Great Lockdown, these charities feeding hungry and scared people fear the day will come when they cannot cope with the tsunami of demand.

On Tuesday, for instance, some 1,000 cars lined up at a distribution centre set up in Pennsylvania by the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

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Trump Was Too Slow In Virus Response: Poll

April 17, 2020 6:30 pm

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump was too slow in taking major steps to address the threat to the United States from new coronavirus, a poll published on Thursday said.

According to the Pew Research Center, 65 percent said Trump was tardy in responding when cases of the COVID-19 illness were first reported in other countries.

He initially downplayed the virus and has been keen to end the resulting lockdowns which have crippled the world’s largest economy.

The Pew survey was conducted April 7-12 among a sample 4,917 American adults.

It found that 52 percent said Trump’s …

Americans Won’t Attend Sports Events Without Vaccine

April 11, 2020 6:15 pm

A large majority of Americans would be reluctant to attend future sporting events unless a vaccine for the coronavirus is developed, a survey by Seton Hall University has found.

With every major sport across North America in shutdown for the past month since the COVID-19 crisis erupted, professional leagues are already exploring the practicalities of how and when competition may resume.

But the results of the Seton Hall Sports Poll revealed deep unease among Americans about returning to stadiums before a vaccine had been developed.

The survey of 762 people carried out between April 6-8 found that 72% would not …

US Cautiously Optimistic As Coronavirus Curve Flattens

April 9, 2020 6:11 pm

US health officials made cautiously optimistic noises about coronavirus despite a jump in deaths Thursday, suggesting Americans might be able to take summer holidays, as falling hospitalization rates hint at a turning point in the battle against COVID-19.

With unemployment skyrocketing and the economy tanking, President Donald Trump is keen to lift social confinement measures and get the United States open for business again as soon as possible.

Trump’s top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci warned America cannot be reopened overnight due to the threat of further waves of infections, but said it could be up and running again by the …

Why Afro-Americans Are Dying At Higher Rates From Virus

April 8, 2020 6:13 pm

The new coronavirus isn’t biased about who it infects — so why does data emerging from some states suggest that African Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic in the US?

Experts say blacks are disproportionately impacted by underlying health conditions linked to poverty, face discrimination in medical care, and are more likely to work jobs that require them to leave their home.

“We know that blacks are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease,” the nation’s top doctor, Surgeon General Jerome Adams told CBS News on Tuesday.

These chronic illnesses, which are in turn linked to …

$2 Trillion Rescue Plan Passes US House, Heads To Trump

March 27, 2020 5:50 pm

The US House of Representatives passed a historic $2 trillion rescue package Friday that injects cash into the pockets of struggling Americans and fortifies an economy so ravaged by coronavirus that it is sliding toward recession.

After clearing the Senate earlier this week, and as the United States became the new global epicenter of the pandemic with 92,000 confirmed cases of infection, Republicans and Democrats united to greenlight the nation’s largest-ever economic relief plan.

It now goes to President Donald Trump, who has indicated he will quickly sign the measure into law, triggering millions of rebate checks of up to …

US: Unemployment Claims Soared To 3.3 Million Last Week

March 26, 2020 1:07 pm

A record number of Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, as businesses shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Initial jobless claims soared to a seasonally adjusted 3.28 million in the week ended March 21, according to the Department of Labor.

That is the highest number of initial jobless claims in history, since the Department of Labor started tracking the data in 1967. The previous high was 695,000 claims filed in the week ending October 2, 1982.

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Trump: Americans Worship God And Not The Government

January 24, 2020 2:43 am

President of the United States, Donald Trump has declared that the Americans don’t serve the Government, rather they serve God.

He made this declaration during a speech, where he talked about some political powers who were working against religion and Christianity in the white house and in America. And how they were trying to steer the people’s minds away from worshipping God when Christianity formed the basis on which America was built.