Tag: Coronavirus

“Testing is central because that leads to early detection, it minimizes further spread, and it quickly treats those found with the virus.”

Corporate tax cuts won’t save us. The coronavirus doesn’t distinguish between rich and poor.

Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.

Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat.

There is no public health system in the U.S., in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.

“Evicting families puts their health at risk, imposes trauma on and disrupts the education of their children, and exacerbates the risk of outbreak in their communities,” said Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other lawmakers.

Hard to take him seriously when he and his team stand shoulder to shoulder and the press crowds in.

Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.

The president has been comparing his administration’s handling of COVID-19 to the way President Barack Obama’s team dealt with the H1N1 outbreak. He is wrong.

Our country needs a national ban on water shutoffs for nonpayment with immediate restoration of service to all families who have lost water for an inability to pay their water bills."