With More Mail Voting, Democratic Senators Say Domestic Violence Survivors’ Addresses Shouldn’t Be Exposed
Liu Jie/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Minnesota’s senators are asking the federal agency that coordinates election policy to allow coronavirus-related emergency funding to be used to protect victims of stalking, domestic violence, and trafficking whose personal information could be revealed through voter registration…
As States Reopen, Concern Grows Over Data Manipulation
Austin Mcafee/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The rush to lift lockdown measures, even as COVID-19 continues to pose major problems across the country, is sparking new concern over whether some states are using misleading data in order to justify reopening. In Georgia, where Republican Gov. Brian…
Trump Says He’s Taking Hydroxychloroquine Preventatively
SMG/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For weeks, President Trump has been touting the anti-malarial medication hydroxychloroquine as a “miracle drug” for treating COVID-19. On Monday, he admitted that he has been taking it prophylactically for a week and a half. “A lot of good things have…
School Closure vs. Restaurant Closure: Which Is Most Effective?
I’ve been asking for a while about the effect of specific COVID-19 countermeasures, and a new study in Health Affairs finally delivers. This is the first study of this type that I’ve seen, and it should naturally be taken as tentative until we see what other teams come up with. But with that said, here…
A Postcard Mailed 33 Years Ago Just Arrived, and Other Surprises to Start the Week
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Immunity boosts: Results. Our colleague Samantha Michaels broke a staggering story earlier this month about New York prisoners sewing face masks for correctional officers, hospital workers, and quarantined inmates, but being forbidden to wear the masks themselves in their housing units. Hours after her…
Mask Wearing Is Becoming the New Normal
Here is the result of a poll taken a few days ago by YouGov for CBS News: Roughly speaking, it looks like about 70 percent of Americans wear masks routinely when they leave the house. That’s not bad, and a number that high normalizes the behavior enough that it’s likely to increase over time. This…