Why We Should Name COVID Variants Like Hurricanes
Jesús Hellín/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.Earlier this week, CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked epidemiologist Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, the co-chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, about the “South African variant” of…
COVID-19 Has Killed 1 in 475 Native Americans
Tribal members at the burial of a husband and wife on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, December 2020. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/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 was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as…
A Year Ago Today, the WHO Called COVID a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”
Health care workers operate in an ICU in the “COVID Area” of the Beverly Hospital in Montebello, California.Xinhua/Zeng Hui via Getty Images 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.Today marks the one-year anniversary of the World Health…
The Nurse Who Changed the Mind of a Patient Downplaying the Pandemic
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 have quit since January 2020 how and why they did it. You can read more about the project and find every story here. Got your own quitting…
Small-Town America Grapples With Vaccine Logistics
Public health officials test for COVID-19 in Livingston, Montana, in December 2020.William Campbell/ 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 was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One afternoon this…
A Year Ago Today, Trump Said COVID Would “All Work Out Well”
Donald Trump makes a toast during a state dinner hosted by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in November 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter 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.One year ago, on the same day that the CDC…