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Experimental plasma therapy approved for the coronavirus

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Nurse Sarvnaz Michel, 28, works on a computer while assisting a COVID-19 patient at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, July 10, 2020.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of blood plasma in treating COVID-19 patients. The plasma therapy joins just a handful of experimental treatments that have gotten such approval. And, Brazil has one of the highest rates of the coronavirus in the world with the Indigenous population hit especially hard. Also, a cat named Mittens has become a celebrity in New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington. Now, the cat is in the running to win the prestigious New Zealander of the Year award.

In This Episode

Plasma therapy for COVID-19
Germany hosts pop concerts to test spread of COVID-19
The monument to “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the founder and patron saint of the Soviet secret police.
In the removal of a Soviet symbol of oppression, Russians see lessons for the US
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Pompeo, Israel and the UAE
Netanyahu avoids a snap election 
Yawalapiti Chief Aritana is seen in the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State, May 9, 2012.
Brazil’s Indigenous communities suffer grave losses from coronavirus 
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Floods devastate China 
Indian Americans rise in Trump’s Republican Party 
Mittens the cat could become New Zealander of the year 
A group of people stand outside a red house near a white horse with fanciful lyrics
‘Bardcore’ trend sees modern pop songs reimagined with a medieval twist 
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