Tag: pandemic
How the pandemic’s unequal toll on people of color underlines US...
From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in communities of color than in the general...
Top 10 US billionaires got $1 billion richer every day of...
The 10 wealthiest billionaires in the U.S. have added roughly $1 billion to their collective fortune every day—or around $12,600 per second—since...
Yearly wrap: Handful of good, loads of bad, onslaughts of ugly
Thus, the ugliest consequence to wasting billions on Pentagon missiles rather than funding education—stupidity—is a greater threat even than climate change.
Noam Chomsky: Corporate patents & rising anti-science rhetoric will prolong pandemic
It’s overwhelmingly a far-right phenomenon. Others have been drawn in. And I think there are many sources.
This scientist created a rapid test just weeks into the pandemic....
Irene Bosch developed a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 test in early 2020. But she was stymied by an FDA process experts say made no sense.
Face mask litter increased almost 9,000% during first 7 months of...
“Despite millions of people being told to use face masks, little guidance was given on how to dispose of them or recycle them safely.”
After a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, the government response stalls
The Biden administration has not delivered on one of the main mandates of the COVD-19 Hate Crimes Act.
The West’s wasted crisis
A year that began hopefully is ending grimly. Western political elites, unable (and perhaps unwilling) to turn a deadly pandemic and climate crisis into a life-preserving opportunity, have only themselves to blame.
Nearly 29,000 tons of COVID plastic now floats in the oceans,...
A new study calculates for the first time how much of that waste is ending up in the oceans and what it is doing once it gets there.
A pandemic of fallacious thinking and civic irresponsibility: Part two –...
The Virus is a big deal, Period! It’s one of the worst calamities to strike in modern times.