Coronavirus
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Trump Keeps Promoting Unproven Coronavirus Cure Despite Actual Doctors Saying He Shouldn’t
In today’s “Y’all’s president be wilding” news, Donald Trump shows us that he’s a lot of things, but a medical professional is not one of them. According to the New York Times, Trump is continuing a push for the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to be used to treat coronavirus infection despite there being no conclusive evidence…
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Growing Number of Minority and Low-Income Students May Miss Out on Online Learning After Coronavirus Closures
Coronavirus was meant to be the “great equalizer,” according to pundits, public officials and a few errant celebrities, but its impact has been anything but equal. Across the country, black people have been contracting the virus and dying from its complications at higher rates. And protective measures put in place to help manage the outbreak…
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The 1st Rikers Island Detainee to Die From Coronavirus Complications Was Jailed for Parole Violation
The first jail inmate to test positive for COVID-19 at Rikers Island, Michael Tyson, died on Sunday. According to multiple people familiar with Tyson’s case, he contracted and died from the disease while awaiting a hearing on a parole violation. Tyson was just 53 years old, reports The New York Times, and had been detained…
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Decides This Is a Good Time to Reopen Beaches. Local Officials Disagree
You would think that after Gov. Brian Kemp caught America’s collective side-eye when he revealed that he’d recently learned that asymptomatic people can still spread the coronavirus, he would be trying to keep his head low and avoid making any decisions that could even be perceived as reckless in this time of crisis. Instead, he’s…
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Oprah Donates $10 Million for Coronavirus Relief, With $1 Million Going to America's Food Fund
We have more news of celebrities going beyond empty platitudes by using their financial privilege to pay it forward. Oprah has pledged to donate $10 million toward relief during the coronavirus pandemic. She also set aside $1 million of that donation to go toward fighting food insecurity, specifically. “Chef Jose Andres and Claire Babineaux-Fontenot have…
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Blacks and Latinos Affected Most by Job Losses During the Coronavirus Pandemic
In news that shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, black and brown workers were disproportionately hit by job losses last month, according to a report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In the Employment Situation report (pdf) for March released on Friday, the U.S. saw a job loss of over 700,000 and the unemployment…
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Detroit Bus Driver Who Complained About a Woman Coughing on His Bus Has Died of COVID-19
Remember the Detroit bus driver who went off in a Facebook video on a woman who was coughing on his bus? On Wednesday, just two weeks after the incident, the driver, Jason Hargrove, died from COVID-19, according to the Detroit News. In a nearly nine-minute video posted on March 21, Hargrove recounts the incident in…
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Report: Black People Are Contracting and Dying of Coronavirus at Higher Rates
One of the more insidious bits of misinformation in the early days of the pandemic was the idea that black people were somehow, as if by magic, immune to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Not only was that rumor grossly inaccurate, a new report reveals that black people are getting hit by the…
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A Navy Captain Wrote a Letter Begging for Help With the Coronavirus Onboard His Ship. He Was Removed From Duty
Captain Brett Crozier was worried about sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which had been battling the coronavirus, so he sent an email explaining the complexity and the urgency of the dire situation he faced. “We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing…
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Jared Kushner Is a Goddamn Idiot
On Thursday—and I didn’t think this was possible—President Trump handed the mic to someone who is actually dumber and less qualified than the president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. To date, Jared Kushner is basically following in Trump’s footsteps; his father made money in real estate and the young Kushner is eating off the fat of…