Tulsa Health Official Warns Trump Rally Could Swamp Local Hospitals’ COVID Capacity
Evan Vucci For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The top public health official in Tulsa wishes Donald Trump would stay away next week. When the president recently announced he would resume his in-person arena rallies after they were put on pause because of the coronavirus pandemic, his first scheduled…
COVID Spikes Aren’t About Demonstrations or Pool Parties, They’re About Trump’s Incompetence
Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Two distinct videos went viral over the Memorial Day weekend. One was of crowds of people partying and drinking at an Ozarks’ pool resort in Missouri. The other was of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing a Black man…
A Fourth Guard at an ICE Detention Center Has Died of COVID-19
Immigration detainees sit in a yard at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana run by LaSalle Corrections, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A fourth guard at a US immigration detention facility has died as a result of COVID-19, as the virus…
Trump Used the Pandemic to End Asylum at the Border. A New Lawsuit Challenges That Decision.
Two children cross the Rio Grande into the United States to turn themselves over to authorities and ask for asylum. June 2019.AP Photo/Christian Torres For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump administration is facing the first legal challenge of its policy of turning away thousands of asylum…
A Massive Study Flagged Concerns About Hydroxychloroquine Last Month. The Authors Just Retracted It.
Cadu Rolim/Fotoarena/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past few months, there has been a pretty heated debate raging in both scientific and political circles over the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The broad outlines are likely familiar at this point: President Trump has touted its effectiveness to…
West Point Summoned Cadets Back for Trump’s Graduation Speech. Now Several Have the Coronavirus.
Don Emmert/AFP/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.West Point did not need to have an in-person graduation ceremony this year. The nation’s oldest military service academy had its cadets leave campus in March as the coronavirus outbreak began spreading across the United States, especially in New York,…