The New York Times just published an visual piece yesterday that highlights 17 artists work rendering their own versions of New York City from where they sit in isolation. Even though I’m not from New York, these images do justice to a collective sense of silence that has muffled many places in this country and … Read more
Since Sanders dropping out of the race, Biden has clinched the Democratic nomination and has recently gotten the endorsements of Obama, Sanders and Warren as the Democratic Party rallies behind him. As part of his efforts to present himself as a different type of leader to Trump, he released his own plan to reopen the … Read more
“A Tiny Hospital Struggles to Treat a Burst of Coronavirus Patients” discusses how Margaret Mary Community Hospital in Batesville Indiana has become overburdened by Coronavirus patients. Notably, the hospital only had a maximum capacity of twenty-five patients, to begin with, because it is in a small rural city, so it was overwhelmed by a relatively … Read more
Article link: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/ Authors: Adam Feuerstein and Matthew HerperPublished on April 16, 2020, in STAT Magazine This article discusses some incredibly promising preliminary results from a clinical trial involving the treatment of severe COVID-19 patients with remdesivir, Gilead’s investigational antiviral drug.
Ironically, the person mentioned in this headline does not understand irony.
Attached below is a link to an article that FOX News published on 4/16/20 that alleges that Covid-19 began in a lab in Wuhan, China. This allegation, without hard evidence, is a dangerous prerogative that FOX should approach with great caution, if at all. It is very possible that this story is simply “click bait” … Read more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/us-prisons-coronavirus-uprising-riot At the Lansing Correction Facility in Kansas, prisoners protested by uprising on Friday, April 10th. Police officials shut the protest down. The article cites previous examples of prison guards using pepper spray and other forms of force against prisoners who express fears about possible infection.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/politics/republican-governors-stay-at-home-orders-coronavirus/index.html Republican governors from various state governments are refusing to follow expert Dr. Fauci’s urges to implement stay-at-home directives. These governors are risking the health and wellbeing of their citizens seemingly out of loyalty to Trump. They are waiting for a nationwide directive that Trump does not seem to be making anytime soon. Instead, Trump … Read more
