Rep. Ilhan Omar to Introduce Major Long Covid Bill
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will introduce a potentially groundbreaking piece of federal legislation in the House of Representatives—one allocating $10 billion in funding to fight Long Covid, the increasingly widespread, chronic condition that…
A Long Island County Banned Masks, and Disabled People Are Suing
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, Nassau County, on New York’s Long Island, became the first county in the US to ban the public wearing of masks—with very vague health exemptions—since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Nassau ban…
Tim Walz Is Leading the Way on Long Covid Funding
Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune-TNS/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. There are more than 400,000 people with Long Covid in Minnesota—the home state of Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz—according to the state’s health department. A post-viral illness with serious impacts to quality…
Citing Health Concerns, Some Jewish New Yorkers Push Back Against Proposed Mask Ban
A masked subway rider in New YorkRichard B. Levine/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The day after the North Carolina legislature passed a bill restricting the use of masks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul alarmed disability rights advocates when she announced that she…
North Carolina House Passes Revised Mask Ban
Mark Bialek/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, the North Carolina GOP Representatives passed a mask ban on private property in a crackdown on protesters, even as a new subvariant of coronavirus spreads across the United States. The vote was 69 for…
RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being normalized. He’s a conspiracy theorist who has made a lot of money pushing baseless or disproven notions about vaccines, Covid, and other hot-button subjects. At the start of his 2024 presidential bid, the…