Five Tips for How to Actually Change an Anti-Masker’s Mind, According to Experts
Mother Jones illustration; 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.Chances are you have someone in your life—an aunt or a cousin or childhood friend or even just someone you once knew and still sometimes see at…
New CDC Data Confirms the Pandemic’s Outsize Impact on People of Color
Jae C. Hong/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.As coronavirus case rates and deaths reach record highs and ICUs across the country near capacity, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the…
Indian Country Has Entered a Devastating New Phase of the Pandemic
Sharon Taylor of the Missisippi Band of Choctaw Indians is mourned by her three daughters and granddaughter in Tucker, MI on July 21, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis/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.When the first wave…
The Freakout About Giving COVID Vaccines to Prisoners Has Already Begun
Sandy Huffaker/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.Toward the end of a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was asked about a proposal to give the state’s prisoners early access to the forthcoming…
CDC Panel Suggests First Vaccinating Health Care Workers and Nursing Home Residents
Mario Tama/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.As many as 40 million doses of two COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be available for distribution by the end of December—enough to vaccinate 20 million people. But in…
These Researchers Have Developed an Inexpensive, Low-Tech COVID Vaccine
The Serum Institute of India, a drug producer working with AstraZeneca and Novavax to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccines.Subhash Sharma/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.Earlier this month, the likelihood that the COVID-19 pandemic would actually end…