Study: COVID-19 Reduced Life Expectancy in US by a Year
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.COVID-19 reduced life expectancy in the general United States population by more than a year, a new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found. It…
Texas’ Pandemic Abortion Ban Didn’t Stop Women From Ending Their Pregnancies. It Just Forced Them to Cross States Lines.
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New York Hits 1 Million Coronavirus Cases, as Deaths Reach 350,000 Across the County
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After an Astronomical Rise in COVID Cases, Wyoming Has Stopped Contact Tracing
A Health Care Worker seals a coronavirus swab after testing at the Pro Health Urgent Care coronavirus testing site on April 30, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. Al Bello/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story…
The Nursing Home Aide Who Decided to Quit Rather Than Work While Sick with COVID
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.We asked people who quit in 2020 how and why they did it. You can read more about the project and find every story here. Got your own quitting tale? Send…
Protecting Domestic Violence Survivors From Eviction Is Always Important—but Especially During COVID
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