As nearly a dozen states are either contemplating or have decided to lift mask mandates, it's time to consider something that has gotten little consideration in the press these past two years.
As the second anniversary...
As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic nears, focus is naturally on the number of infections, deaths, and hospitalizations, especially as scientists closely watch the omicron "close cousin" subvariant, BA.2.
While infection and mortality rates...
It happens to millions every year.
They have a medical emergency and assume their health insurance will cover the costs.
Then a month or so later they receive bills for the cost of "out-of-network" care.
In the midst...
Remember in 2016 when Trump famously claimed, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters"?
Shooting someone wouldn't cost him support.
But the COVID vaccine certainly is.
Many of...
In the richest country in the history of the world, nearly half a million people lack indoor plumbing.
No surprise, most of them are people of color.
According to research from the Plumbing Poverty Project (PPP), in...
What is the greatest threat to global public health?
Many will argue it's COVID-19.
That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545 total confirmed cases in the United States alone, and 666,806 Americans...
Democrats hold the majority in both houses of Congress and they hold White House.
So how did such an important democratic issue like the eviction moratorium in place since September slip through the Democrats' fingers?
Now 15...
After Democratic backlash ensued regarding the Biden administration’s decision to maintain the Trump-era cap on refugees permitted to enter the United States, the White House increased the cap.
President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress was...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden outlined...
To date, more than 390,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19.
As of Saturday, there are 23,644,885 confirmed cases in the United States.
By the time you read this, it will be much higher, as officials warn we could...
If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it’s our societal inequities.
When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies in the reality that we spend the most money on healthcare–20% of our...
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump Jr. stated COVID-19 infection rates have dropped to "almost nothing."
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1322001939266109441
If over nine million is "next to nothing," when does it get to be "something"?
We shouldn't...
They're called "long-haulers".
They're victims of Covid-19 in a separate category from the 80% who experience mild symptoms and those complaining of severe symptoms for three to six weeks.
They're a combination of the two, battling lasting...
Two years ago, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told CNN Donald Trump’s isolated, erratic, and delusional behavior was presenting a dangerous situation.
Raskin, therefore, supported a bill to establish a bipartisan panel with Vice President Mike Pence to invoke...
One day before being released from Walter Reed Naval Hospital for treatment for COVID-19, Donald Trump stated in a video he "learned a lot about Covid,” adding:
"I learned it by really going to school. This...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
In just the past year and a half, the Trump administration’s war on immigrants has perpetrated the following crimes against humanity:
Created a phony university to entice undocumented immigrants;
Suggested fortifying Trump’s racist border wall with a snake- or alligator-infested...
There’s been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a pangolin?
Was it...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt.
Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
