Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
President Donald Trump on the golf course on November 26.Tasos Katopodis/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.On Wednesday, as the United States hit new records for the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and…
“Everyone Is Tired of Always Staying Silent”: Inside a Worker Rebellion in the Central Valley
It was still dark when Veronica Perez arrived at Primex Farms, a nut-packing facility in California’s Kern County. Crickets murmured in the almond and pistachio groves stretching for acres in all directions. Once inside the building’s mirrored doors, Perez would usually stand next to other sorters alongside a conveyor belt, picking out blemished pistachios. But…
FDA Chief Denies Trump’s Accusations That the Agency Slowed Vaccine Approval
April 24, 2020, President Donald Trump gestures to Vice President Mike Pence as Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, steps back to the podium to answer a question during a briefing about the coronavirus.AP Photo/Alex Brandon Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother…
Watch the First COVID-19 Vaccine Shipments Leave the Warehouse
A truck loaded with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine leaves the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020.AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool 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.As the United States ends…
An FDA Advisory Panel Just Recommended Authorization of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine
A nurse administers the Pfizer vaccine at a health center in Wales.Pool/i-Images/Zuma 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.In a major milestone that brings the United States one step closer to the end of the coronavirus pandemic,…
New CDC Data Confirms the Pandemic’s Outsize Impact on People of Color
Jae C. Hong/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.As coronavirus case rates and deaths reach record highs and ICUs across the country near capacity, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the…