This Wall Street Journal article discusses efforts from scientists and billionaires to reallocate economic resources to analyze the various effects of the coronavirus. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-group-of-scientists-and-billionaires-pushing-trump-on-a-covid-19-plan-11587998993?mod=trending_now_3
This is an article that discusses the problems with GA reopening the economy and businesses too soon. It outlines how many peoples lives are at stake with this rash decision. We are already seeing the numbers and mortality/case rates double in the past 24 hours. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georgia-reopening-coronavirus-pandemic/610882/
This CBS News article and video highlights the state of the meat industry in America, how Trump’s executive order has protected industries from getting sued if their workers get sick, and how the mandate to keep these meat processing facilities open has caused them to become COVID-19 hotspots.
This article from the New York Times highlights the imbalanced burden upon women, especially working mothers, who are forced to juggle their professional careers as well as domestic work. A particularly telling quote, “The way we’ve been able to MacGyver a career as a woman is completely under attack by a global pandemic.”
A must-read. Here is a group of medical scientists explaining in lay person’s language why the tried-and-true methods established to determine “death rates” (more accurately case fatality rates) are necessary before making policy decisions based on reports based on faulty methods. The upshot: in this case, politicians will be well served using the best scientific … Read more
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52224331 The article provides a snapshot of the cold war being fought between U.S and China during the COVID-19 pandemic crises. Both countries have been accusing one and another for the origin of the virus. The tensions move into a new phase as President Trump recently announced that U.S was going to halt funding for … Read more
This is an interview of Edward Snowden by the co-founder of VICE, Shane Smith. They discuss topics such as the lack of preparedness in the face of a global pandemic, how long this will be a threat to humanity, and whether the power we’re handing to global leaders will be detrimental in the post-pandemic future.
This article reports on Trump’s claim that comments he made at a briefing on Thursday were meant “sarcastically”. These comments included suggesting that injections of bleach or antiseptics may be a good treatment for COVID-19 or that irradiating patients with UV light would be a good idea. Both of these statements are factually incorrect and … Read more
Samuels follows up on Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s interview with Tucker Carlson. There, Patrick suggested that “he would rather die from the widely spreading coronavirus than see then economy destroyed for future generations by overreaction to the disease.” When he was re-interviewed by Carlson on April 20, Patrick justified his earlier comments and stressed that … Read more
This article on how Democrats are politicizing the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis features research by the Wesleyan Media Project and insight from Professor Erika Franklin Fowler.
