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Twitter permanently suspended an account belonging to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon after he suggested Thursday morning that the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.
Bannon falsely claimed President Donald Trump had won reelection, despite several key states still being too early to call, and said that he should fire both Fauci and Wray. He then said he would go further. "I'd put the heads on pikes. Right. I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone," Bannon said during a livestream of his "War Room: Pandemic" online show.
Bannon, widely considered the architect of Trump's 2016 win, has been peddling Covid-19 misinformation this year. An investigation by CNN found that a shoddy paper, claiming the coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese lab, was backed by Bannon. Last month, Bannon falsely suggested Trump was deliberately infected with Covid.
Even if comments from political influencers do not directly call for violence, war-like symbols and veiled references can validate violence and potentially inspire people to action, said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel said last month, while introducing a second "soft" lockdown, "lies and disinformation, conspiracy, and hatred damage not only the democratic debate, but also the fight against the virus...It is only with solidarity and transparency that we will be able to confront the pandemic."
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Q: Will Thanksgiving be a superspreading event?
A: America's neighbor to the north may offer an answer to that question. Three weeks after Canadians celebrated their Thanksgiving holiday, the country is seeing a national spike in cases.
Several cities and provinces have shattered single day records for coronavirus infections, and Canada's top doctors say the holiday -- held on October 12 -- is partly to blame.
Now, the US may be on the verge of repeating Canada's mistakes, as Americans begin making plans for their holiday that is fast approaching.
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Contrary to Trump's predictions, the pandemic didn't disappear by election day
The US reported over 120,000 Covid-19 cases on Thursday, more than any other country during the course of the pandemic. On the same day, global cases rose by a record 700,000, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Despite Trump's claims that the pandemic would vanish by Election Day, rising cases, hospitalizations, and deaths nationwide are causing the White House coronavirus task force to sound dire warnings in weekly reports released to states.
"It is everywhere, we can't hide from it, we can't run from it," Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a Thursday press briefing. "We've got to face it." Ohio is one of several states -- Colorado, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Utah, among others -- that have set new case records in recent days.
WHO warns of 'explosion' of virus cases in Europe
Europe is seeing an "explosion" of coronavirus cases, WHO said Thursday, warning of a "tough time" ahead as mortality rates rise.
As infections surge exponentially across the continent, Italy has imposed a new stay-at-home order, England has entered a new lockdown and France has also tightened restrictions. Greece will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown, starting Saturday, after a sharp spike in cases. And Denmark has introduced new restrictions after scientists there identified a mutated strain of coronavirus linked to the mink population.
Those who can't work from home may be at higher risk of getting Covid-19
Employed adults who tested positive for Covid-19 were almost twice as likely to report regularly going to a workplace than those who tested negative, according to research published Thursday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The findings highlight socioeconomic differences among participants who did and did not telework, the authors wrote. Non-White employees and those with lower earnings had less opportunity to telework.
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- An election official who worked at the polls in Missouri after testing positive for the coronavirus and ignoring instructions to self-isolate has died.
- At least 104 people were arrested at an anti-lockdown protest in London on Thursday evening, according to authorities in the British capital.
- South Korea is introducing a QR code tracking system on Saturday for venues considered high risk for Covid-19 transmissions.
- The Australian state of Victoria reported its seventh consecutive day of zero new Covid-19 cases and deaths on Thursday. The state has only recorded six new cases since capital Melbourne exited a 112-day lockdown on October 26.
- Medical workers on the pandemic's front lines are using outdoor adventures to recharge and connect with each other.
If you think a negative test result means you don't have coronavirus, you could be wrong. It can take days before a new infection shows up on a Covid-19 test.
"We know that the incubation period for Covid-19 is up to 14 days. And before that, you can be testing negative, and have no symptoms," emergency medicine physician Dr. Leana Wen told CNN. "But you could actually be harboring the virus and be able to transmit it to others."
So if you insist on seeing loved ones for Thanksgiving, self-quarantining for 14 days beforehand is probably your safest bet. Here's what else you need to know before making plans to see friends or family.
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