covid-19
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Lawsuit Accuses Tyson Foods Supervisors of Placing ‘Winner-Take-All’ Bets on How Many Employees Would Catch COVID-19
Tyson Foods has been embroiled in controversy since April when supervisors for the company chose to keep a meat-processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, open despite a surge in employees testing positive for COVID-19. The plant was forced to shut down after more than 1,000 employees tested positive for coronavirus infection. After several of those employees…
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Wants to Set Aside $3 Million on 'Patriotic Education Fund'
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) seems dead set on doing everything but addressing the pandemic currently ravaging his state. His latest venture into headassery is calling for $3 million of the state’s budget to be set aside for the “Patriotic Education Fund.” According to The Hill, the funding would go to schools that don’t engage…
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For White Men Who Have Considered Genocide When Patriarchy and Privilege Are Not Enuf
The cacophony of celebratory sounds that rang out last week in reaction to Joe Biden’s win was based on a sundry of emotions—ranging from relief at ending a racist regime dominated by white men who were fanatical about protecting their own wealth and privilege to jubilance over a historic win for Kamala Harris, the first woman…
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NCAA Dead Set on Risking Health of Student-Athletes to Make That Sweet March Madness Money
The NCAA is, in my humble opinion, the most fucked up organization in American sports. For some reason (capitalism, to be clear), college sports have continued despite there being a whole-ass pandemic. While this year’s March Madness tournament was canceled as a result of the pandemic, the NCAA is currently working on plans to hold…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: Wait, We Almost Bombed Iran?
Middle America’s bum-ass president reportedly asked about a military strike against Iran just last week, but held off after his advisers were like, “Slim, you tripping like shit.” Now, all of the sudden, Trump cares about possible nuclear weapons being made in Tehran, which is convenient considering he’s on his way out of office. He…
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'They Stop Yelling At You When They Get Intubated': South Dakota Nurse Says Patients Are Denying COVID-19 to Their Dying Breath
Though a couple COVID-19 vaccines are coming down the pipeline, the Republican-led push to deny that the disease is fatal or even exists has fed into a deep delusion that will likely have dangerous consequences for people in this country beyond 2020. Case in point: An emergency room nurse in South Dakota—where daily COVID-19 cases…
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Hope on the Horizon: An Almost 95 Percent Effective COVID-19 Vaccine Is Coming Soon From Moderna
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Moderna, a biotechnology firm, says that it has developed a COVID-19 vaccine, which trials show is 94.5 percent effective against the coronavirus–even for people with severe cases. Moderna announced the news about the promising vaccine on Monday, revealing that its tests on around 30,000 people have…
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'Birthday Sex' Singer Jeremih Hospitalized in ICU With COVID-19
Despite how much we may want it to be over, COVID-19 is not through with us. The latest indication of this is the saddening news that Jeremih, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter from Chicago who broke onto music the scene in 2009 with his massively successful track “Birthday Sex”, has been hospitalized with the coronavirus and is…
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At Least 130 of Trump's Secret Service Staff Have Coronavirus or Are Quarantining After Being Exposed
Even after being hospitalized for COVID-19, President Donald Trump and his senior staff didn’t appear to take concerns about spreading the virus seriously—continuing to campaign furiously while eschewing masks and hosting large indoor events. The possible fallout from those decisions: The Washington Post is now reporting that more than 130 Secret Service officers charged with…
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Former Amazon Worker Files Lawsuit Claiming Company Put Black and Latinx Employees at Higher Risk for COVID-19
Christian Smalls, a former assistant manager at an Amazon warehouse who was fired after organizing a protest outside his workplace, filed a class-action lawsuit against the company on Thursday. The suit alleges that Amazon failed to provide protective gear to its “predominantly minority” workforce during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, but provided more…