Deborah Birx Sounds a Dire New Warning: Coronavirus is “Extraordinarily Widespread”
Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator joins President Donald Trump in a roundtable on donating plasma at the American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington on July 30, 2020.Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force…
Parents Who Teach at the University of Alabama’s Nursing School Were Practically Encouraged to Quit
sshepard/GETTY For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Suzanne Prevost, the Dean of University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing, sent out an email on Thursday that elicited shockwaves through the university’s faculty. In the email, which went out to the nursing school’s faculty, Dean Prevost explained that she…
An Unfortunate New Data Point in the Debate Over Opening Schools
izusek, Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Schools across the country are set to open in mere weeks—some have announced exclusive virtual learning for the first months, others have promised to reopen with safety measures in place. But parents and staff continue to grapple with the…
A Rare, Inflammatory Disease Is Sickening Children After COVID-19. An Overwhelming Proportion Is Black and Latinx Kids.
A child wears a protective face mask in Kips Bay in New York as the city enters Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus Noam Galai/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past several months, it’s become abundantly clear that Black…
South Texas Hospitals Are Overwhelmed by COVID-19. But No One Is Being “Sent Home to Die.”
David J. Phillip/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last week, a small rural county in south Texas went from the poster child for good pandemic response to the entire country’s worst nightmare. In a widely-covered press conference, Starr County Health Authority Jose Vasquez announced that, like many hospitals…
Louie Gohmert Refused to Wear a Mask in Congress. Now He’s Tested Positive for Coronavirus.
Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican who for months has steadfastly not worn a mask nor maintained social distancing in the halls of Congress, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to multiple sources. Gohmert was scheduled to fly…