Showing results for: Coronavirus (page 13)
Bounties and bonuses leave small hospitals behind in staffing wars
Bram Sable-Smith
Hospitals across the country desperately work to staff facilities as the omicron variant continues to spread
Before Trump, Alex Jones and QAnon: How Robert Welch created the paranoid far right
Kathryn Joyce
Robert Welch and the John Birch Society were dismissed for years as wackos and losers. But they won the long game
State Covid testing programs may show the way for daycare
Jane Roberts
Without clear federal guidance, many parents with young kids in childcare are stuck in a loop of Covid quarantines
The media has lost the plot on ivermectin
Keith A. Spencer
Molnupiravir, Paxlovid, and Sotrovimab all treat COVID-19 very well. Why are we fixating on ivermectin?
2021 was a landmark year for energy efficiency legislation in US states
Adam Mahoney
In 2021 at least a dozen states passed new clean energy legislation or adopted new energy-saving standards
We asked healthcare professionals about their face masks of choice for everyday use
Nicole Karlis
Backed up by data and personal experience, three healthcare professionals weigh in on their mask preferences
My friend recently became a nurse — what timing, right?
Kirk Swearingen
Hospitals are overloaded. Health care professionals are exhausted. My friend Kerry decided this was her fight
The Gold Rush returns to California
Becki Robins
Demand for gold has risen in recent years. Not everyone is happy about that, especially residents of Grass Valley
Joe Rogan can’t stop pushing ivermectin as a COVID treatment. Experts are tired of debunking him
Nicole Karlis
"No legitimate news source should have reported on it," an expert said of the ivermectin press release Rogan shared
In super-vaxxed Vermont, Covid strikes — but packs far less punch
Sarah Varney
Vermont’s collective measures do appear to be protecting residents from the worst of the contagion’s damage
States were sharing Covid test kits. Then Omicron hit.
Katheryn Houghton
States have gone from donating surplus rapid covid-19 tests to states with shortages to hoarding them
Joe Rogan denies spreading “misinformation,” as Spotify counters with content warnings
Joy Saha
Amidst backlash to the anti-vaccine conent on Rogan's podcast, Spotify begrudgingly offers to "provide balance"
The Florida cannabis behemoth leaving Black growers behind
Donnell Alexander
Florida-based Trulieve is now the nation’s largest marijuana retailer — leaving limited room for anyone else
“Trump in a red vest”: School districts sue Glenn Youngkin after so-called moderate goes full MAGA
Igor Derysh
Youngkin reversed campaign pledge on first day in office amid pressure from TrumpWorld to go full Ron DeSantis
Why we care about finding patient zero
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The co-author of "Patient Zero" on what history's most famous cases can tell us about surviving an outbreak
Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer
Dan Canon
The photo of the victim was stuck in an unmarked manila folder. It was our duty to stare at it, to not look away
Airports are delaying 5G rollouts — but that does not vindicate the conspiracy theorists
Matthew Rozsa
Conspiracy theorists have pushed the nonsensical claim that COVID-19 is spread by wireless technology
Texas court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers
Jon Skolnik
Trump-appointed judge cites personality liberty and called Biden's mandate "a bridge too far"
CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally
Maureen Ferran
CORBEVAX uses recombinant DNA technology that many countries already have the infrastructure to produce
Signs of life in Bidenland: President seizes the pulpit at last — will it change anything?
Brian Karem
Biden finally comes out swinging, with a mix of humor, empathy and surprising naiveté. But is it too late?
Donald Trump calls for racial violence: White supremacists are listening, but the media laughs
Chauncey DeVega
While the media congratulated itself for mocking or ignoring Trump's Arizona rally, he spread vicious racist lies
100+ ultra-rich people warn fellow elites in open letter: “It’s taxes or pitchforks”
Jake Johnson
"History paints a pretty bleak picture of what the endgame of extremely unequal societies looks like"
To combat labor shortages, states are letting healthcare workers work while positive for COVID
Nicole Karlis
"Sending nurses and other health care workers back to work while infected is dangerous," one nurses' union said
Billionaires “had a terrific pandemic” — as inequality killed millions: report
Jon Queally
Oxfam reports the wealthiest collectively got $1.2 billion richer every day in the pandemic
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