News | Environment & Health Months-Long Delays and Mysterious Rejections Plague Rapid COVID Testing in US A combination of overzealous regulation and anemic government support have kept at-home tests pricey and hard to find. By Lydia DePillis & Eric Umansky , ProPublica November 5, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Some States Are Rationing Who Gets COVID Care Once Again A shortage of resources, such as intensive care unit beds, has pushed some states into crisis mode. By Sophie Austin , TheCenterforPublicIntegrity October 7, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health As Delta Surges, Other Variants Wait in the Wings. Biden Must Take Action. Some experts worry that the new COVID variant, named Mu, may have more resistance to our vaccines. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout September 8, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Vaccination Can Stem the Rise of New Variants. Time to Double Down. A new variant from South Africa underscores the fact that new mutations emerge in individuals with prolonged COVID. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout August 31, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health TX Governor Gets Rare COVID Treatment While Banning Mask and Vaccine Mandates The rest of us can only watch as the danger of infection creeps closer to our children. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout August 18, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Medicare Won’t Cover Most Vision, Dental and Hearing. Dems Want to Change That. On Monday, Chuck Schumer released an outline of a coming budget bill that includes a directive to expand Medicare. By Julie Rovner , KaiserHealthNews August 11, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health We Reopened Too Soon, and Children Are Paying the Price Delta appears to affect young people more than the other strains. Pediatric hospital beds are steadily filling. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout August 9, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health New COVID Variants Threaten to Make Pandemic Permanent Early research indicates these new variants might be far more effective at breaching our vaccine defenses than Delta. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout August 5, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Both the Delta Variant and Thin-Willed Democrats Are Lethal to Our Society Is it physically possible to scream so loud that you shatter your own teeth? By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout July 30, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health US Sees Steepest Single-Year Decline in Life Expectancy Since World War II Black and Latinx people have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and the resulting fall in life expectancy. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams July 21, 2021 Truthout