Coronavirus

Texas blackout reveals deep impact of environmental racism, aid organizers say

Feb 24, 2021 07:06

The parts of Texas which took the biggest hit from Winter Storm Uri are largely under-resourced communities of color whose infrastructure has long been inadequate and neglected, mutual aid organizers say.
US workers cried out for more masks. The government allowed N95 exports anyway

Feb 24, 2021 06:58

In the midst of a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear, allowing as many as 5 million of the masks per month to be shipped overseas.
US cities are razing homeless encampments despite record cold weather and COVID

Feb 23, 2021 18:29

In defiance of pandemic guidelines, city agencies and police across the US have refused to suspend the practice of demolishing encampments and driving out those who have sought to make shelter, potentially exposing vulnerable people to dangerous temperatures and worsening viral spread.
How COVID is a double-edged sword for those with OCD

Feb 23, 2021 04:48

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on those living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
COVID deaths in US lead to biggest drop in life expectancy since WWII

Feb 21, 2021 05:52

While there have been drops in life expectancy in the US in recent years due to increases in drug overdoses, the decline over the past year, in large part due to the coronavirus pandemic, is the biggest drop in life expectancy since World War II.
New Lancet report: 40 percent of US COVID deaths could have been avoided

Feb 16, 2021 06:38

If the United States had death rates on par with other wealthy nations, there would have been 40 percent fewer deaths attributed to COVID-19 last year.
Massive losses should be a warning to Big Oil that its bonanza is over

Feb 13, 2021 02:34

The crushing decline of the oil industry during the COVID-19 pandemic may be unprecedented, but it is also a foreseeable outcome for fossil fuel producers in the years ahead. The race to create clean-burning biofuels and hydrogen to propel aircraft and seaborne tankers is gaining pace. At the same time, electric vehicles are accelerating into the mainstream.
ICE threatened to expose asylum-seekers to COVID-19 if they did not accept deportation

Feb 10, 2021 17:07

Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to expose them to Covid-19 if they failed to obey his orders and submit to a transfer.
Uneven recovery from COVID recession could hit poorer countries hard

Feb 07, 2021 06:20

The World Bank estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic will push up to 150 million additional people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, with food insecurity rampant.
Americans did not “lose” loved ones and normal life to COVID. They were stolen

Feb 05, 2021 17:25

By now, the world that does not watch Fox News knows that very early on, Donald Trump was aware of the dangers of this pandemic but refused to act because it might make him look weak”, says William Rivers Pitt, senior editor and lead columnist.