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COVID-19
Deep Cuts to Florida’s Public Health System Made the State Vulnerable to COVID
Experts point to cuts made during the Great Recession and decisions to shift public services to for-profit entities.
Hundreds of Thousands of Primary Absentee Voters Must Reapply to Vote in Fall
The ambiguity of the process could mean many primary voters are unaware of the need to reapply to receive a fall ballot.
COVID-19 Could Set Back Women’s Economic Progress for Decades
Women are still struggling to recover economically from COVID-19, and there are no signs this will happen anytime soon.
No Big Pharma Company Has Committed to Make the COVID Vaccine Free or Cheap
Companies are receiving federal grants without guaranteeing they will make the vaccine affordable for all.
GOP Convention Pretended COVID Was Over While Creating Super-Spreader Conditions
Trump spoke before a death cult of cheering, sweaty, unmasked, shoulder-to-shoulder devotees.
White House Official Spurns COVID Prevention: “Everybody Is Going to Catch This”
More Americans died from coronavirus during the RNC than did during the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Trump Touts Stock Market Gains That Benefit the Wealthy as Americans Suffer
Trump is following in a U.S. political tradition that falsely equates what’s good for the rich with what’s good for all.
Pandemic Could Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents
The looming mass disenfranchisement of the U.S.’s elderly and disabled is a hidden effect of the ongoing crisis.
Nearly 9,000 New COVID Cases Identified Among Florida Kids After Schools Reopen
A new study finds that asymptomatic children have likely played a bigger role in the spread of infections.
CDC’s New Testing Guidelines Appear to Follow Trump’s Call to “Slow the Testing”
The new guidelines fly in the face of the CDC’s own estimates that 40 percent of COVID carriers are asymptomatic.