Republican governors were slower to implement social distancing restrictions to combat the spread of the new coronavirus and these delays are expected to result in “significant” consequences, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington. President Donald Trump spent much of January, February and early March downplaying the threat posed by the coronavirus, which resulted […]
âThe president knows Florida is so important for his reelectionâ President Donald Trump has politicized the federal governmentâs response to the coronavirus pandemic, from how it allocates medical equipment and supplies like PPE, to how it responds to requests from red state governors versus blue state governors â and a White House official is freely […]
(CNN)It is falling to President Donald Trump to lead America into its most tragic month in decades, as experts say the coronavirus pandemic could kill more citizens than the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. But the President’s bullish, self-congratulatory rhetoric — a staple of a presidency that has divided the nation — is still jarring with the desperate reality […]
Many of my closest friends are physicians and nurses on the front lines of the viral pandemic sweeping America. Too many of them face dire shortages of masks and other protective equipment. As they brace for an influx of patients, their hospitals are in short supply of life-saving breathing machines. Meanwhile, a catastrophic shortfall in testing kits prevented any semblance of an […]
âThings fall apart; the center cannot hold,â wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, itâs clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the worldâs richest country to a season of untold suffering. The United States, long a beacon of scientific progress and medical innovation with its world-class research […]
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. In the middle of March, as millions of people across the country started to practice social distancing measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Floridaâs Spring Breakers did the opposite. Thousands of people, seemingly unfazed by the pandemic, took to the stateâs coastline […]
It was a tale of two beaches. On Floridaâs Atlantic coast, at the height of spring break season, the sand was deserted in the cities of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale, where Democratic mayors had imposed closures to fight the spread of coronavirus. Across the narrow neck of the state, the Gulf coast beaches in Clearwater were […]
Updated March 30, 2020:Â This story has been changed to reflect the first known positive coronavirus test of a Liberty University student. LYNCHBURG, Va. â As Liberty Universityâs spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Libertyâs student health service about the rampaging coronavirus. […]
