How Rich Investors, Not Doctors, Profit From Marking Up ER Bills
JazzIRT/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In 2017, TeamHealth, the nation’s largest staffing firm for ER…
Shelter-in-Place Orders Saved Nearly 250,000 Lives
Wong Maye-E/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Finally, some good news: Despite months of botched coronavirus testing, limited treatment options and flip-flopping on masks, new research suggests something is working to flatten the curve—stay-at-home orders. According to an analysis by the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University’s Dornsife…
If You Wish COVID-19 Weren’t the Only Thing to Talk About, We Have Good News for You
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Before you wave it off as a bizarre autocorrect misfire or clumsy typo, or an ill-conceived respelling, consider NOVID-19’s origins: “NOVID-19” got going as a just-say-no bit of creativity by hospital workers who named a staff break room the “NOvid room,” a…
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Spewing Bad Science. We’re Here to Help.
Andre M. Chang/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At a Fox News Town Hall in front of the Lincoln Memorial on May 3, President Donald Trump revised the US coronavirus death toll, citing a number significantly higher than what he’d been predicting just a few weeks ago.…
New Programs Are Trying to Bolster the Emotional Well-Being of Stressed Health Workers
A tired nurse leaves Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital in New York City.B.A. Van Sise/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The meetings start with the ring of a bell, then breathing exercises. After that, faculty, nurses, and nursing students from Columbia University’s nursing school exchange stories from their…
Science Has an Ugly, Complicated Dark Side. And the Coronavirus Is Bringing It Out.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Bad science is a lot like a virus. It starts small, but if it’s shared enough times, it can cause global disruption. You may remember a kerfuffle last month over whether it is safe to take ibuprofen to treat coronavirus…