Tag: coronavirus pandemic
HEROES Act to give $350 million in coronavirus aid to 50...
“Should American taxpayers from lower-income areas be subsidizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous?"
Critics smell ‘economic sabotage’ as McConnell unveils COVID plan with $0...
"As the Covid crisis only grows more deadly, this disgraceful proposal puts the lives of everyday Americans at even greater risk."
DOJ to appeal judge’s injunction against ‘cruel, unprecedented policy’ of deporting...
The Trump administration—which has denied the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and seized infants from their parents—claims it is acting in the interest of public health and children.
Multisolving our way to Covid-19 economic recovery
Addressing the coronavirus pandemic can also provide opportunities to fight climate change and boost equity.
President-elect Biden’s new COVID-19 task force gives the US a fresh...
Will there be a cohesive message from the top?
Two days after Pfizer’s hopeful vaccine news, 82% of doses already...
"Unless we break the stranglehold of these massive corporations over our medicines, the injustice will continue."
A right-wing think tank is behind the controversial Great Barrington declaration...
“Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic."
Trump’s failed coronavirus response Part 2
There was no national response. No national standards. Governors and mayors haphazardly closed businesses and schools.
Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by spring 2021, study...
The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.
Trump advisers privately warned GOP donors about COVID-19 in February while...
There is a discrepancy between Trump's cheerful public messaging to Americans in February and the less optimistic information that White House officials shared simultaneously with GOP donors.
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Senator tackled and cuffed at DHS press event in LA as Trump-era immigration crackdown...
Sen. Alex Padilla was violently removed and handcuffed while attempting to question DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, drawing widespread condemnation and fueling fears of growing authoritarianism.
New study confirms glyphosate causes cancer at EU ‘safe’ exposure levels in lab animals
Even at the EU’s Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI), the study shows that glyphosate and its formulations have carcinogenic potential.
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels global health threats
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
Rethinking climate action: A new guideline for planetary health
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.
‘Starvation by design’: Over 55,000 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces fire on civilians...
Palestinians seeking food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites are being killed and injured in rising numbers, as Israel enforces a siege that aid experts and survivors say is deliberately fueling chaos, displacement, and starvation.