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![UCLA students and other volunteers make face shields to help support doctors on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic who may not have enough PPE at Geffen Hall UCLA on April 19, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-1210876936-400x300.jpg)
How a Lobbying Campaign Pushed the CDC to Relax Protective Gear Guidelines
Looser CDC guidelines removed hospitals' obligation to adhere to strict OSHA respiratory protection standards.
![The Old Courthouse is seen in front of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 1, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-1057257360-400x300.jpg)
Missouri GOP Votes to Gut Anti-Gerrymandering Reform Approved by Voters
Republican legislators voted to reverse redistricting reforms enacted in 2018 aimed at producing fairer elections.
![A Customs and Border Protection agent is seen wearing a face mask as a preventive measure to avoid the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus, at San Ysidro crossing from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 23, 2020, on the U.S.-Mexico border.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-1210802721-400x300.jpg)
Exploiting Pandemic, Trump Admin Weighs Banning Immigration Indefinitely
Trump's team has decided to lock down the country in a way that even the most nativist policies of the 1920s never did.
![House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks past the Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-1213147637-400x300.jpg)
House Passes $3 Trillion Relief Package, But Progressives Say More Must Be Done
Rep. Pramila Jayapal said the bill “fails to match the scale of this crisis.”
![A registered nurse waits to test residents for COVID-19 antibodies at Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on May 14, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0515-nyc-nurse-400x300.jpg)
Hospital Workers Report Failures by Management to Notify Them of COVID Exposures
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has no rule requiring that employers inform workers of exposures.
![Food service workers lead a socially distanced protest at the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 1, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/image1-400x300.jpeg)
US University Leading COVID Response Leaves Black Workers Behind
Laid-off employees at Johns Hopkins University are demanding the four weeks’ pay the institution promised.
![Demonstrators carrying guns hold a rally in front of the Michigan state capital building to protest the governor's stay-at-home order on May 14, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0515-michigan-armed-protest-400x300.jpg)
MI Legislature Cancels Work as “Reopen” Protesters Call for Whitmer’s “Lynching”
One protester at the capitol on Thursday brought a doll hanging by a noose that was meant to represent the governor.
![U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/SEG1-Guatemala-Deportations-2-400x300.jpg)
US Deports COVID-Positive Immigrants to Haiti and Guatemala, Spreading Virus
U.S. deportations are causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean.
![A cardboard cutout of President Trump stands amid people protesting the stay-at-home orders outside the state capitol building in Sacramento, California, on May 1, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0515-trump-protest-400x300.jpg)
“Wartime President” Trump Thinks His Culture War With Democrats Will Save Him
With a reheated culture war and vague threats against Democrats, Trump thinks he can bluff his way to victory.
![President Trump speaks as he tours an Owens & Minor, Inc., medical supplies distribution center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on May 14, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0515-trump-medical-j-400x300.jpg)
Trump Says Doctors and Nurses “Running Into Death” Is “Beautiful Thing to See”
Thousands of health care workers have contracted COVID-19, and many are facing severe PPE shortages.