Headlines for April 28, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#52RXJ)
- Known U.S. Deaths Top 56,000 as New Study Shows True Number Likely Much Higher
- Trump Ignored Early Intelligence Reports as Coronavirus Spread
- Trump Denies Responsibility for Spike in Disinfectant Poisonings
- Texas Reopens Businesses, California Warns Against Violating Restrictions
- Trump's Plan to Give Commencement Address at West Point Could Bring Back 1,000 Cadets to Campus
- NY Cancels Primary After Removing Bernie Sanders from the Ballot
- U.N. Calls for Release of Immigrant Prisoners as San Diego Facility Refuses to Allow Face Mask Delivery
- More Cases Reported at Prisons as New Study Shows 96% of Inmates Who Test Positive Are Asymptomatic
- Law Goes into Effect Requiring Germans to Wear Face Masks in Public
- Boris Johnson Says Too Soon to End U.K. Lockdown
- Swedish Ambassador Says Stockholm Is Close to Reaching "Herd Immunity"
- WHO Warns Pandemic Could Exacerbate Other Public Health Crises, Children Especially Vulnerable
- Archbishop Tutu: Coronavirus Exposes South Africa's Inequalities
- Immigrants Deported by the U.S. Make Up 20% of Guatemala's COVID-19 Cases
- El Salvador Authorizes Lethal Force Against Suspected Gang Members as Prisons Go on Full Lockdown
- Dozens of Protesters Arrested in Chile as Anti-Government Demonstrations Continue
- Pakistani Medical Workers Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Lack of PPE
- New Zealand Declares Coronavirus "Eliminated" as It Eases Lockdown
- D.C. Activists Hold Car, Bike Caravans in Solidarity with Essential Workers
- 2 More People Corroborate Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Accusations Against Joe Biden
- Top NY ER Doctor Who Treated COVID-19 Patients Dies by Suicide
- Jerry Givens, Virginia Anti-Death Penalty Activist and Former Executioner, Dies of COVID-19