These Researchers Have Developed an Inexpensive, Low-Tech COVID Vaccine
The Serum Institute of India, a drug producer working with AstraZeneca and Novavax to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccines.Subhash Sharma/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.Earlier this month, the likelihood that the COVID-19 pandemic would actually end…
Donald Trump Jr. Has COVID-19
Rusty Jones/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.Donald Trump Jr. is the latest member of the president’s inner circle to test positive for COVID-19. The president’s son is asymptomatic and has been in quarantine since early…
Geraldo Has an Idea to Get Trump to Leave: Name a Vaccine “The Trump”
In an effort to mitigate the sting of defeat, Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera has suggested that a forthcoming vaccine be named after Donald Trump. Such a gesture, he said on Friday, could work to cheer up our septuagenarian baby president as he continues to rely on dangerous conspiracy theories to reject political reality. “I…
Ivanka Trump Praises Her Dad for Vaccine Research Started Under Obama
Joe Raedle/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 Monday morning, shortly after the biotech company Moderna announced promising news about the efficacy of its COVID vaccine, Ivanka Trump went on Twitter to blow some minds: Fact…
Rapid Testing is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit
A healthcare worker swabs a patient during a drive up rapid COVID test in West Des Moines.Jack Kurtz/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.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of…
Seventy-Two Thousand Food Workers Have Contracted COVID-19. OSHA Is Ignoring Them.
Dr. Niki Davis joins a protest in Salt Lake City on July 30, 2020, to lobby Gov. Gary Herbert to close meatpacking plants in the state. The protest was organized by members of the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which contends meatpacking plants have contributed to too many coronavirus cases in Utah and across…