We Have No Idea Which Interventions Work Against COVID-19
Handwashing definitely works against COVID-19. But does anything else?Kevin Drum For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A while back I mentioned that we were in new territory with COVID-19: we’ve had similar or bigger pandemics before, but we’ve never had one where we adopted widespread countermeasures and then…
President Trump Wondered Out Loud If Injecting Disinfectant Could Cure COVID-19
Tripplaar Kristoffer/SIPA/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Thursday evening, after the Labor Department reported that 4.4 million Americans filed jobless claims in the past week, California announced its deadliest day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and New York City’s top health official estimated that…
ICE Detainees Terrified of the Coronavirus Wanted to Be Deported. Guards Pepper-Sprayed Them.
Inmates on cots at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana while Mother Jones’ Shane Bauer worked there as a guard.Shane Bauer/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday morning, the roughly 80 men detained in one unit of the Catahoula Correctional Center had a simple request: They…
Quarantines May Be Reducing the Flu Too
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts It makes sense that when we adopted COVID-19 quarantines and stay-at-home orders, it would also have a big effect on other communicable diseases like the flu. Kinsa, which makes an internet-connected thermometer and collects body temperature data on millions of people,…
Lunchtime Photo — Throwback Thursday
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts This is the Via Condotti in Rome, long before anyone had heard about social distancing. I assume it’s empty now. If the camera were pointed in the other direction you’d see the Spanish Steps, which had been declared a non-sitting area…
McConnell: Let’s Use COVID-19 to Crush Public Sector Unions
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.You’ve probably heard that Mitch McConnell wants states to declare bankruptcy instead of getting rescue funds from the federal government. However, this is not due to some kind of generalized fear of running up the deficit. It’s because, like most Republicans, he…