Showing results for: Coronavirus - Covid 19 (page 59)
As coronavirus cases surge, Betsy DeVos compares risk of returning to school to riding a rocket ship
Roger Sollenberger
"Risk is involved in everything we do, from learning to ride a bike to riding a rocket into space," DeVos says
Berkeley McDonald’s workers say lack of safety equipment spurred coronavirus outbreak
Nicole Karlis
Multiple employees contracted COVID-19, and some were asked to deep-clean the store themselves in exchange for food
How bad could a second term really be? Think Donald Trump 2: Police-state boogaloo
Heather Digby Parton
Trump has made his second-term agenda clear: Crush his enemies — and he doesn't just mean Muslims and immigrants
Three Kushner family companies scored millions in coronavirus bailout funds
Roger Sollenberger
Some of the companies which cashed in on the loans belong to the family of President Trump's son-in-law
Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro recalls drinking from a “colored” water fountain at Woolworth’s
Alex Henderson
"My awakening on the race issue was when I was eight years old in a Woolworth's store in West Palm Beach"
Physicists who study fluids say toilet-flushing could be major way coronavirus spreads
Matthew Rozsa
Physicists found that vortices created via the turbulence of flushing carry droplets three feet in the air
Mitch McConnell wants to restrict future stimulus checks to incomes of $40K or less
Matthew Rozsa
Salon asked economists to weigh in on the socioeconomic impact of means-testing pandemic relief checks
Trump set to travel to coronavirus hotspot not far from his struggling Florida golf resort
Travis Gettys
It's not clear whether the president will visit nearby Trump National Doral, which reopened last month
Brazilian President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the pandemic
Alex Henderson
“There’s no reason for fear. That’s life. Life goes on"
Paul Krugman: “Roaring pandemic” will keep unemployment “in double digits” for “a long time”
Alex Henderson
"The next four months are going to be very, very ugly," the economist warns
DeSantis appointee overrides local officials, issues emergency order reopening all Florida schools
Igor Derysh
The order will require all schools to be open "at least" five days a week to offer in-person instruction
Who got PPP loans? List shows Hollywood talent agencies, law firms and Kanye West’s Yeezy brand
Ted Johnson
The Paycheck Protection Program was set up to provide $660 billion in loans since it started in April
COVID-19 linked to strokes and psychosis: study
Matthew Rozsa
A small number of patients are experiencing psychological and neurological side effects after COVID-19
One-third of the prisoners in California’s San Quentin State Prison have coronavirus
Nicole Karlis
Public health experts feared a prison coronavirus outbreak would be a nightmare scenario. They were right
Some scientists believe coronavirus spreads through air much more readily than previous thought
Matthew Rozsa
A group of scientists contends the novel coronavirus spreads through aerosolization. The WHO doesn't agree
DOT wants to weaken its own power to penalize airlines over consumer complaints
Amy Martyn
Under Elaine Chao, the agency already is taking a more hands-off approach to complaints by air travelers
Republican attorneys general group launches race-baiting ad campaign against “lawless liberals”
Roger Sollenberger
For decades, the groups dedicated to electing attorneys general agreed not to attack incumbents. No longer
Hollowed-out public health system faces more cuts amid coronavirus crisis
Lauren Weber, Laura Ungar, Michelle R. Smith
The U.S. public health system lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century.
Trump administration uses faulty data to speed up meatpacking production
Sarah Okeson
More than 1,100 hogs slaughtered every hour as the pandemic cuts a deadly swath through the workforce
Amid deadly virus, a push for nursing home alternatives
Michael Schulson
Nursing home deaths have critics saying it’s time to rethink the institutional model for elder care
Contracts show Trump giving Big Pharma free rein to price gouge taxpayer-funded coronavirus drugs
Jake Johnson
"The amount of money the government is throwing at companies is unprecedented."
Texas Republicans to hold in-person Republican convention in Houston
Cassandra Pollock
Texas GOP will proceed with in-person state convention in Houston this month
The shocking number of snakes traded internationally each year
John R. Platt
A new study digs into the market for endangered and threatened snakes
COVID-19 means good times for the Pentagon
Mandy Smithberger
How to vaccinate the military-industrial complex
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