Just when you thought the USA had abandoned Ukraine, President Donald Trump today indicated that he will resume aid, both military and intelligence, to Ukraine . What did President Volodmyr Zelenskyy have to do? He showed openness to a 30-day ceasefire. However, in talks that began in Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated that Ukraine had to give up land won by Russia in this war. What a way to start discussions. Note that Ukraine was not invited to this meeting . It was exactly five years, on 11March2020, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was announced by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) to be a pandemic. Before that day, this disease was called coronavirus, novel coronavirus, Wuhan coronavirus or Wuhan pneumonia. WHO officially named it 2019-nCoV in January 2020, and shortened it to COVID-19 on 11February2020, with CO from COronavirus, VI from VIrus and D from Disease, while 19 came from the year it was fi...

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