Utah Was Really Into Trump’s Miracle Cure. Now It Wants Its Money Back.
Kevin E. Schmidt/Quad-City Times via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Utah residents may be lukewarm on President Donald Trump—the president leads Democrat Joe Biden there by only five points, a shocking number in such a reliably red state—but Utah has proven to be an enthusiastic…
Hypertension Drugs Are Probably Not Making COVID-19 Worse
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Yesterday I passed along news of a controversy concerning hypertension and COVID-19. The question was simple: does hypertension make COVID-19 more deadly, or is it hypertension drugs that make it more deadly? A couple of new studies out of China suggest that…
LA Times: New Data Reveals COVID-19 Is Killing Younger Black and Latino Californians at Higher Rates
A staff member for a St. John’s Mobile Clinic provided workers with free COVID-19 testing in Los Angeles this week.Ringo Chiu/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.An analysis published by the Los Angeles Times on Saturday reveals that Black and Latino Californians aged 18 to 64 are…
Trump Is Claiming Coloradans Are Showering Him With Thank You Notes for Ventilators
Michael Reynolds/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump was up early Saturday morning taking credit for sending a few ventilators to Colorado and thanking all the people in the state who allegedly sent him “thank you” notes for his benevolence. He also tagged Sen. Cory…
Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Bragged About Getting a Haircut to Look Good for Fox News
Didn’t want another bad hair day.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Rules. Who are they really for? Not the president’s director of the United States National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, whose characterizations of the pandemic have been flagrantly bullish. You’ll recall he’s the one who urged…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: April 24 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through April 24. No big changes from yesterday. One comment, though: Canada has been the best performer among my set of countries, but so far it still hasn’t shown any signs of peaking. It may be growing more slowly than other countries, but unless it starts to plateau soon it…