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COVID-19
Insufficient COVID Protections for Postal Workers Pose Threat to Mail-In Voting
Postal Service employees are not being tested nor receiving temperature checks despite facing obvious health risks.
I’m Living in Fear of COVID as New People Get Transferred Into the Prison I’m In
The practice of transferring people from prisons with outbreaks has already proven deadly but has not stopped.
Hospitals Serving the Poor Close as Investors and Electeds Refuse to Rescue Them
Increased financial strain amid the pandemic is forcing more hospitals that serve low-income patients to close.
The White House Blocked USPS Plans to Deliver Masks to Every Household
The Trump administration missed a chance to send “public health tools to every person in the country,” critics contend.
A Trump Admin Rule Change Would Allow Shelters to Refuse Trans People
The mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic has left transgender people more vulnerable to housing instability than before.
Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill
Desperately needed emergency food assistance would expire on September 30 under McConnell’s “skinny” stimulus bill.
Giuliani’s Payroll Company Got a Paycheck Protection Loan But Lists No Employees
Giuliani's company acquired its loan from Signature Bank, which at one point came under scrutiny for Trump family ties.
Trump Falsely Claims COVID Death Toll Is Not So Bad If You Leave Out Blue States
Critics described the remark as a grotesque escalation in rhetoric, devaluing the lives of those living in blue states.
Another Day of COVID, Another Failed Stimulus, Another Thousand Deaths
“Go for much higher numbers, Republicans” was the squeal of retreat Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been waiting for.
CDC Director: Face Mask “More Guaranteed to Protect” Against COVID Than Vaccine
CDC head Robert Redfield explained there is “clear scientific evidence” that masks work to slow the spread of COVID.