COVID-19

Fenit Nirappil – The Washington Post – Thursday, December 24, 2020 Struggling to breathe and pausing between sentences, Susan Moore mustered enough energy to record herself from her hospital bed, where she was being treated for covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. The message she shared: Not even her status as a doctor shielded…

Read More A Black doctor alleged racist treatment before dying of covid-19: ‘This is how Black people get killed’

The Treasury Secretary came to defend his decision to take away billions in relief funds from the American people. It didn’t go well for him. BY BESS LEVIN Referring to Mnuchin’s decision to make the Federal Reserve, against its will, return hundreds of billions of dollars that were designated for emergency COVID-19 lending programs, and place them in the…

Read More Katie Porter, Esquire, Tears Steven Mnuchin, Smug Prick, a New Asshole

Joel Shannon USA TODAY South Dakota’s high rates of COVID-19 and low virus regulation have sparked criticism even as some dying of the virus there don’t believe it poses a real threat. That’s according to Jodi Doering, a South Dakota nurse who has gained national attention for her account of working on the front lines in a state where leaders have long minimized the…

Read More ‘It’s not real’: In South Dakota, which has shunned masks and other COVID rules, some people die in denial, nurse says

By Anna Silman@annaesilman Thanks to an emergent body of research, we now know that symptoms like Chimére’s be indicative of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, which can leave patients suffering from a long list of full-body issues for months after an initial COVID infection. Many of these people, like Chimére, have never tested positive, though research shows that those with…

Read More She Had COVID For Months. No One Believed Her.

Lindy Washburn, NorthJersey.com  10/14/2020 On the afternoon of Sept. 22, I became a data point in the search for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. That’s when I received the first of two shots in a clinical trial to develop a vaccine and became one of 30,000 volunteers to take a needlestick for science. Why am I doing it? A combination of altruism, curiosity,…

Read More I volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial in New Jersey: Here’s what it’s been like since the shot

When political leaders suggest basic precautions appear unmanly, men are less likely to follow health and safety advice, experts say. By Daniel Victor Oct. 10, 2020 On Tuesday, and not for the first time, Joseph R. Biden Jr. described President Trump’s reluctant attitude toward wearing masks as “macho.” Tomi Lahren, a conservative commentator and Fox Nation…

Read More Coronavirus Safety Runs Into a Stubborn Barrier: Masculinity

Economic fallout from COVID-19 continues to hit lower-income Americans the hardest About six months into the pandemic, many Americans continue to face deep financial hardship. Among lower-income U.S. adults, 46% say they have had trouble paying their bills since the pandemic started, and 32% say it’s been hard for them to make rent or mortgage payments.…

Read More Low Income People Hardest Hit by COVID-19

Ken Budd, AARP, September 24, 2020  Although there are no statistics on the number of people who’ve caught COVID-19 on planes, at least some passengers have likely been infected during air travel. Despite the risks, sitting on an airplane is probably safer than sitting in a crowded bar, some medical experts say.  Read HERE.

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