“Eliminate the Barriers”: How the Vaccine Rollout Is Failing Communities of Color
A patient at the Lebanon VA Medical Center receives a COVID-19 vaccine.Doug Wagner/Veterans Administrat/Planet Pix/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 is a week of good news and not-so-good news as we approach the one year…
How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System
Long lines at a mass vaccination site in Danvers, MA, on Feb. 10, 2021.Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe/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 published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses…
A Small Georgia Town Was Trying to Play by the Rules. The State Seized Its Vaccines Anyway.
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.It was a gloriously sunny Wednesday in early February, but Dennis Fowler was worried. The 77-year-old retired transit worker sat in the waiting room at his doctor’s office at the Medical…
The Pandemic Has Unmasked America’s Deepest Inequities
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.COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate, but the havoc wrought by the virus—the deaths, economic devastation, and intergenerational trauma—has disproportionately affected Black, Latino, and Native American communities. The Trump administration’s feckless response didn’t help,…
I Moderated a Facebook Live Event With Two Nursing Home Residents. It Was Shocking.
Andres “Jay” Molina, Molly Schwartz, and Vincent Pierce talk during a Facebook Live event.Mother Jones Illustration 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.It’s impossible to consider the full impact of the pandemic without looking at nursing homes.…
COVID Has Turned These Nursing Home Residents Into Activists Fighting to Show Their Lives Matter
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 a cold and snowy Saturday in December, four men in wheelchairs slowly rolled up to the tall black gates that separate Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center from the outside…