Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: April 29 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through April 29. In an obvious effort to make my life more difficult, the UK has suddenly decided to start reporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. Why haven’t they been doing this all along? Beats me, but they’re doing it now which means the Johns Hopkins numbers showed a sudden,…
Donald Trump Just Went on TV and Compared COVID-19 to a Campfire, We Think
Jabin Botsford/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At an industry roundtable on Wednesday, Trump set out to assure Americans that soon the country will reopen, the coronavirus will disappear, and things will be just as they were three months ago. And then he took questions. “Without a vaccine,…
They’re Spraying Bleach Water Over a Mexican Border City to Stop the Spread of Coronavirus
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Local government officials in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, are dropping bleach water from helicopters in an attempt to eliminate coronavirus—despite health officials advising against it. Univision reported Sunday that the city’s mayor, Armando Cavada, is having sodium hypochlorite sprayed…
Trump Seems to Think Talking About Testing Is Just a Favorite Media Pastime
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At an industry roundtable on Wednesday, President Donald Trump once again doubled down on the claim that the state of coronavirus testing in the United States is all well and good—and that complaining about it is just a favorite media…
Pro-Trump Student Group Funded by Billionaires Heroically Turns Down Bailout Money
President Donald J. Trump, left, shakes hands with with Charlie Kirk, Founder and Executive Director of Turning Point USA Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Since 2012, student group Turning Point USA has made a name for itself for campus protest spectacles, harassing…
Trump’s 100 Days of Deadly Coronavirus Denial
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. On January 22, two days after the first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed, President Donald Trump was asked if his administration was worried about an impending pandemic. “No, we’re not at all,” he replied. “And we have…