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A new analysis by the American Cancer Society reveals death from cancer in the United States fell 31% between 1991 and 2018. Nevertheless, the organization also estimates that this year, nearly 1.9 million people will be diagnosed with cancer and more than 600,000 will die from it. According to UPI, cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the United States. Significant gains have been made in four of the deadliest and most common cancer, namely lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate. Lung cancer is still the most common cause of cancer death nationally. However, the data showed death rates for the disease fell 2.4% annually between 2009 and 2013 and 5% annually between 2014 and 2018.
A former public affairs official of the US Department of Health and Human Services pressured the CDC to alter a report on the risk of COVID-19 to children. Specifically, the editorial staff was pushed to alter epidemiological data on COVID-19's impact on children. The novel coronavirus is estimated to have infected at least 7.43 million people in the US and has killed nearly 210,000 of them. Paul Alexander wrote in emails to the editor-in-chief of the CDC’s epidemiological digest—the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—on Sept. 11th, 2020. He ordered changes that would downplay the risks to students and faculty if schools return to in-person classes, as President Donald Trump has demanded. The requested changes seemed designed to convey a lower level of risk to students if Trump’s orders were acted on. One former CDC official described Alexander making contact at all with the journal’s staff as highly 'unusual.' That's because the CDC and its journal are supposed to be insulated from external interference.
While scientists and public health experts expend laserlike focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, another scourge is slowly marching forth. According to Business Insider, experts say bacterial infections are in the process of becoming a COVID-19-level threat. The CDC says nearly 3 million Americans per year contract an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection. Of those, roughly 35,000 die. At current rates, the WHO estimates that around 10 million people could die from antibiotic-resistant infections annually by 2050. What's more, the pandemic has shown how unprepared the US health system is to handle the growing threat of bacterial infections. Many scientists are pinning their hopes on phages, a type of virus that can target and kill specific kinds of bacteria.
The United States asks Israel to provide answers and ensure safe aid delivery after dozens were killed in a scramble for aid in Gaza. "We have been in touch with the Israeli government since early this morning and understand that an investigation is underway. We will be monitoring that investigation closely and pressing for answers," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Bolivian President Luis Arce attends the Plurinational Legislative Assembly to deliver the report of his third year in office. IMAGES
L'amitie dans l'ecriture, la trahison, le radicalisme politique du XVIIIe siecle: "Pandemonium" raconte une des plus importantes collaborations poetiques de la litterature anglaise, celle de Coleridge et de Wordsworth. Lors d'une reception donnee a la Guilde des ecrivains de Londres, le beau monde se presse a la nomination du nouveau poete laureat. Le grand Coleridge, sous l'emprise constante de l'opium, est comme tout un chacun certain du triomphe de son ancien camarade William Wordsworth. Il se souvient alors de leur premiere rencontre, trente ans auparavant, en 1795.