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Environment & Health
Dubious State Testing Numbers May Be Screwing Up National CDC Reports
Some states have been combining viral and antibody testing data, leading to messy or useless national statistics.
Praising Emissions Reductions Due to Coronavirus Plays Into Right-Wing Strategy
The right wants to equate any climate action with suffering, a loss of “freedom” or an attack on “liberty.”
Trump’s EPA Wants to Weaken Science-Based Rules for Toxic Air Pollutants
Environmental groups fear the agency will cave to pressure from state regulators and chemical industry groups.
Cuomo Denounced for Order Sending Thousands of COVID Patients to Nursing Homes
Republicans and the Trump administration are not the only ones to blame for unnecessary deaths during the pandemic.
I’m a Frontline Medical Worker. I Contracted COVID — and It Took My Grandfather.
We don't want to be heroes right now. We just want to live another day.
Trump Says He Will Not “Close the Country” If Second Wave of Virus Hits
Some health experts are warning that the country is ill-prepared for a second wave of the disease.
Medicaid Providers Are Last in Line for Federal COVID Funding
Without immediate funding, many of the health facilities that serve Medicaid patients could close permanently.
1.1 Million Children Could Die as COVID Interrupts Food and Medicine, Study Says
Over 1 million children under five could die within the next six months due to secondary impacts of the pandemic.
54,000 Deaths Could’ve Been Prevented If Distancing Were Introduced March 1
The president spent much of early March blasting others who were warning of an impending crisis.
Florida, Georgia and Trump Are Lying. COVID Is Far From Over.
We are “reopening” because in these United States, the people have always come a distant second to profit.