Tag: COVID-19
In rural America, resentment over COVID-19 shutdowns is colliding with rising...
The early compassionate and cohesive community responses to COVID-19 quickly gave way to growing anger and compliance fatigue.
With COVID-19 rife among VP staffers, Democrats says Pence presiding over...
"Nothing about your presence in the Senate tomorrow can be considered essential."
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.
The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’
As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.
Citing ‘big mistakes’ made in Covid-19 fight, Khanna and Warren lead...
“The current administration’s response has exposed serious flaws in the country’s ability to combat large scale public health challenges.”
As winter approaches, states consider how to keep Covid in check
As the U.S. braces for a seasonal uptick in COVID-19 cases, two public health researchers assess what’s worked for states to keep infection rates low.
How Trump’s politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic put every American at...
Trump continues to trivialize the virus in a pathetic ploy to shore up his sagging image before the Nov. 3 election.
Could antibody generation change medicine?
The beginning of this decade has turned into one of the most challenging in recent memory, especially in the field of medicine.
Horseshoe crab blood key to COVID-19 vaccine despite negative impact it...
“An estimated 50,000 of them die in the [vaccine] process and human interference also means that the species is now vulnerable to extinction."
Trump getting COVID is his Hurricane Sandy October Surprise for science...
From COVID-19 to the hurricanes of the climate crisis, even "moderate" Republicans have continually displayed a willingness to ignore and malign science.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.