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The vast majority of the nearly 6 million coronavirus diagnoses in the United States likely were not contagious, according to the New York Times.Despite continued widespread COVID-19 panic, which includes many virus-related restrictions, up to 90% of individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 potentially carried such "insignificant" amounts of the virus that they were…

A new Centers for Disease Control report shows 94% of people who died after contracting COVID-19 had contributing health conditions.Our thought bubble, via Axios' Sam Baker: This report doesn't mean that COVID isn't as bad as we thought. It's clear from the CDC's statistics on excess deaths that more people are dying than usual, because…

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The former campaign chairman Paul Manafort kept in close touch with a longtime colleague whom Senate investigators identified as a Russian intelligence officer.Paul Manafort, President Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016, created a “grave counterintelligence threat” by sharing inside information with a Russian intelligence officer, investigators said.Credit...Sam Hodgson for The New York TimesAug. 18, 2020Updated 9:41…

The Cook Political Report said Monday that Sen. Lindsey Graham’s reelection bid in South Carolina is facing a more serious threat than previously anticipated. The election analysts at the Cook Political Report shifted the Senate race in South Carolina from its “likely Republican” column to its “lean Republican” column on account of momentum it said…