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![People line up to receive a rapid COVID-19 test amongst the agricultural community on February 17, 2021, in Immokalee, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0607-covid-testing-florida-400x300.jpg)
State Audit Reveals Florida Undercounted COVID Deaths by Thousands
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis frequently downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic.
![Mother with protective face mask holding son's hand while lying on the hospital bed with him.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0606-child-patient-400x300.jpg)
COVID Is Not Behind Us — It’s Still Sending Children to the Emergency Room
Sick children are the price we pay because we seem to enjoy the arguments more than we can tolerate the solutions.
![Senators John Neely Kennedy, Lisa Murkowski and John Barrasso hold their news conference in the Capitol on gas prices on May 18, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1240746103-400x300.jpg)
GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism?
COVID! Come on, you can say it, the monster is still under the bed, no sense pretending otherwise.
![Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, speaks at a panel discussion at conference in Munich, Germany, on January 19, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1194680352-400x300.jpg)
Nobel Laureate Calls for Ending Intellectual Property Rules for COVID Vaccines
Wealthy nations "have the resources to narrow the great vaccine gap, if they want to," Muhammad Yunus wrote.
![U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to CityFibre Training Academy on May 27, 2022, in Stockton-on-Tees, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0527-boris-johnson-400x300.jpg)
Boris Johnson Dodged a COVID Reckoning. Now He’s Doubling Down on Deportations.
The Conservatives are turning on refugees at a moment when many British people are welcoming refugees into their homes.
![Sen. Ron Johnson talks to reporters on Capitol Hill on February 25, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0527-ron-johnson-400x300.jpg)
GOP Senator Ron Johnson Used Taxpayer Money for Vacation Travel Expenses
Johnson claimed that the reporting on his spending was “a fully coordinated attack” from the Democratic Party.
![Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West hold a picket line on day one of a weeklong planned strike at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on May 9, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0527-health-care-workers-400x300.jpg)
Burned Out by COVID and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Are Unionizing
Residents are demanding better working conditions, wages and benefits.
![Students in a transitional kindergarten class read aloud on the first day of non-mandated mask wearing inside the classroom at Grand View Elementary School in Manhattan Beach, California, on March 14, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0526-students-mask-400x300.jpg)
As COVID Outbreaks Hit California Schools, Most Aren’t Reinstating Mask Mandates
Summer vacation is near, and most schools appear to be hoping to simply run out the clock.
![Volunteers wearing masks load car with donations](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0526-volunteers-400x300.jpg)
Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.
Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth discuss the practice of hope.
![People wait in line to receive food assistance](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022_0513-food-line-400x300.jpg)
One Billionaire Has Been Created Every 30 Hours During Pandemic, Oxfam Says
Inequality "literally kills," says a new Oxfam International report, which calls for taxing billionaires.