When Can We End the Lockdown? Here’s Another View.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.How long do we all need to stay at home? A team from AEI headed by former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb says this: To slow the spread [of COVID-19], schools are closed across the country, workers are being asked to do their…
New Research Shows States With Republican Governors Were Slower to Adopt Social Distancing Policies
Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In the middle of March, as millions of people across the country started to practice social distancing measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Florida’s Spring Breakers did the opposite. Thousands of people, seemingly unfazed by the pandemic,…
White House Extends Social Distancing Guidelines to April 30
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 29: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden for the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 29, 2020.Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump, walking back from his earlier aspirations to ease…
Are We Prepared for COVID-19 Hitting the Southern Hemisphere?
Maybe we’ll get lucky and avoid big coronavirus outbreaks in the red areas, but I wouldn’t count on it. We need to be prepared for ongoing large breakouts as the southern hemisphere enters fall and winter and starts to cool off. For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I’m…
More Than 2,000 Americans Have Died of the Coronavirus. Trump Is Tweeting About His TV Ratings.
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.More than 2,000 people in the United States are dead and at least 135,000 have confirmed cases of COVID-19. But President Donald Trump has decided to use his Sunday to tweet about his TV ratings. His White House press…
Our President Is (Even More) Deranged
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The self-absorption of our president is truly astonishing: “President Trump is a ratings hit. Since reviving the daily White House briefing Mr. Trump and his coronavirus updates have attracted an average audience of 8.5 million on cable news, roughly the viewership of…