Dr. Anthony Fauci Is the “Perfect Man for This Moment.” If Trump Sidelines Him, We’re Screwed.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx at a White House briefing by the coronavirus task forceManuel Balce Ceneta/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Once I began recovering from COVID-19, I wanted to understand what it means to be part of a growing cohort of survivors: What…
A 1947 Smallpox Outbreak Was a “Textbook Example of a Strong, Humane, and Effective Public Health Response”
Children wait in line for immunization shots at a health station in New York City.Library of Congress For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In February 1947 an American businessman…
Can COVID-19 Be Treated? Does Blood From Survivors Help? Experts Answer Our Questions on Antibodies.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On January 20, just a day before the coronavirus officially showed up in the United States and more than a month before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic, doctors in China launched a small, five-person…
Laid Off? You Can Still Sign Up for Obamacare
Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Roughly 9 million Americans have applied for unemployment insurance in the past two weeks as the coronavirus pandemic ravages the economy. But, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, those who have lost their employer-based health coverage don’t need to go…
You Should Worry About Coronavirus in the South—Just Not for the Narrow-Minded Reasons You’re Sharing
Exterior view of a Captain D’s advertising alternate methods of ordering during the coronavirus outbreak on March 23, 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama. Taylor Hil/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Today, as was inevitable, a map from the New York Times made its rounds on Twitter showing where…
What My Korean American Mother—Who Knew There Would Be a Coronavirus Crisis—Fears the Most
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.My first eye roll came early February, when my mother urged me to purchase a package of face masks. The good ones—contraptions I had never heard of called N95’s—would quickly vanish if I didn’t act soon, she warned, prompting me to chuckle…