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![Health workers check the body temperature of an Indian national coming from Bangladesh, following an announcement about the closure of the India-Bangladesh border as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Fulbari Border checkpoint, on March 13, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-1206921581-400x300.jpg)
Racist Attacks and Border Militarization Intensify as Coronavirus Spreads
We are in the grip of a social panic where people are channeling their fears into racist and anti-immigrant attacks.
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US Lags on Coronavirus Testing and Medical Experts Warn “No One Is Immune”
The Trump administration has failed to account for what may be thousands of infections.
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Amid Coronavirus, Trump Moves to Take Food Stamps From Over a Million People
The rule would impose more strict work requirements on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.
![Donald trump sits, smiling, in front of the biohazard symbol](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0313-trumo-corona-400x300.jpg)
Trump Is Treating Coronavirus Like a PR Problem, Not a Health Crisis
Unfortunately for the president, COVID-19 is proving stubbornly resistant to alternative facts.
![President Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening Coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0312-trump-coronavirus-400x300.jpg)
We Need a President Who Cares If We Live or Die. Instead We Have Trump.
In the absence of presidential leadership, we must be our own leaders and take care of our communities as best we can.
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Coronavirus Will Spread Faster Because We Lack Universal Health Care
Under the U.S.’s for-profit health system, the epidemic is not being treated like the public emergency it is.
![Donald Trump stands inside of a laboratory wearing a red maga hat](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0309-trump-corona-400x300.jpg)
Trump Bears Full Responsibility for Botched Response to Coronavirus in US
Because of Trump’s vanity and ineptitude, people will die, and many more will get sick.
![A woman administers a vaccine to a child](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0309-ebola-vaccine-400x300.jpg)
Coronavirus and Ebola Show We Can’t Leave Vaccine Development to Big Pharma
The Ebola vaccine saga is a classic example of how big pharma is motivated by profit, not the public good.
![A picture taken on March 9, 2020, shows Polish police, border guards and medical staff with protective clothing proceeding to sanitary checks on drivers at Jedrzychowice border crossing, between Poland and Germany, in a measure to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0309-coronavirus-checkpoint-400x300.jpg)
What to Do When the World Is on Fire
As we face a global pandemic, Kelly Hayes talks with Vanamali Hermans about organizing and mutual aid amid catastrophe.
![Jane Thomason, an industrial hygienist for National Nurses United, holds up a report about the SARS virus during a news conference with health care workers at the union's offices on March 5, 2020, in Oakland, California. The union held a news conference to express concerns that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not doing enough to help protect and test health care workers who are exposed to patients with the COVID-19 virus.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-1210619879-400x300.jpg)
National Nurses United Issues Grave Warning on Coronavirus
The labor union warns that the nation's hospitals are woefully unprepared.