Coronavirus Could Cause Health Premiums to Skyrocket, New Study Finds
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where COVID-19 patients are being treated in Santa Barbara County, CaliforniaAmy Katz/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.When health insurance companies set premiums for 2020, they weren’t counting on a global pandemic that could potentially cost them hundreds of billions of dollars. Now…
Trump Says He’ll Ignore Key Oversight Provision in Stimulus Bill
President Donald Trump at a signing ceremony for a $2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill in the Oval Office on FridayErin Schaff/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump says he plans to ignore a key oversight provision in the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: March 27 Update
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Here’s the coronavirus growth rate through Friday. Nothing much has changed since yesterday. Italy had a bad day, but that made up for a couple of good days and they’re still on roughly the same trendline: peaking in early April and going…
How Long Will Lockdowns Last? Probably Through Mid to Late May.
In Nepal, police use this device to arrest lockdown violators.Skanda Gautam/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.How long will we have to remain on lockdown? There doesn’t appear to be any sure answer, but based on various expert testimony it looks to me like a good guess…
Here’s What America Is Streaming to Survive Being Stuck At Home With Kids
Yvan Cohen/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.With schools shut down and residents under some kind of stay-at-home order in most states, millions of people are working from home, often with children lurking, bickering, and screaming in the background. Yet when Zoom calls are too important to…
Can a Pandemic Put Your Civil Liberties On Hold?
Residents at the Shore Towers Condominium in Astoria, New York, sing on the balcony to make people feel united in the quarantine as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States.Ron Adar/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In late January, China’s president Xi Jinping ordered several…