It’s another new low for America’s leading racketeer-influenced and corrupt organization, formerly known as the Republican Party: Now, they’re trying to use this deadly pandemic to steal an election. Surprised? Of course you aren’t. It’s happening in Wisconsin, where the state is moving ahead with Tuesday’s primary even though every sane person agrees that it’s madness to do so under these circumstances. Democrats from Governor Tony […]
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A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has become the first animal in the United States to test positive for the disease associated with the novel coronavirus. The tiger’s infection is a dramatic reminder that the coronavirus originally spread from animals to people. And that it apparently can spread from people back to different animals. SARS CoV-2’s potential for interspecies-transmission isn’t just an object of scientific curiosity. […]
Hospital beds lining hallways, protective gear running out, patients surging into emergency departments: Two years before the novel coronavirus upended life as we’ve known it, officials at NYC Health+Hospitals Corporation were worried enough about a particularly nasty flu season to call Johns Hopkins for help. “Our flu season is really terrible. We’re having a hard time with our facilities,” Jennifer B. Nuzzo, senior scholar of the […]
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty Red states are shutting down abortion clinics, determining that the health care they provide is not essential. Yet gun stores and shooting ranges remain open as a supposedly essential industry. That designation was President Donald Trump’s latest gift to the NRA, and the message it sends to women is that gun rights are sacrosanct while women’s health is subject to […]
In that way he has of saying out loud what many believe but won’t admit, Donald Trump made no pretense of his fear of vote by mail, describing why Republicans opposed mandated vote by mail in earlier versions of the $2 trillion emergency relief bill, despite the public health issues in sending voters to the polls in the midst of a pandemic: “They had levels of […]
Win McNamee/Getty Will President Trump escape accountability in November for the worst crisis leadership in American history? It depends on how strongly and cogently the rest of us frame the true historical record. In his February 5 State of the Union Address, Trump said of the spreading coronavirus, “My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.” This did not happen. […]
Thousands dying already. Many more thousands sick; thousands who, in the most-stressed places, can’t even get into packed emergency rooms until their symptoms have them practically near death. Refrigerator trucks parked along city streets to serve as morgues. Also: 10 million out of work. God knows how many of them are losing their health insurance. And what does the Trump administration say? Too bad! The administration […]
As the United States grapples with a rampaging communicable disease that will needlessly take the lives of more Americans than most of the nation’s wars, we are also confronting a president who has rendered our federal government utterly incapable of protecting its nation’s citizens and who has left it to the nation’s governors to desperately compete among themselves for lifesaving medical equipment. In the vacuum created […]