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Jul 20 2020
Analysis
Teaching People How to Spot Bad Science Is a Public Health Tool
As the world grapples with the devastation of the coronavirus, one thing is clear: The United States simply wasn’t prepared. Despite repeated warnings from infectious disease experts over the years, we lacked essential beds, equipment, and medication; public health advice was confusing, and our leadership offered no clear direction while sidelining credible health professionals and
Mother Jones
Jul 21 2020
Analysis
Trump's pandemic reversals betray anxiety about November election hopes
Donald Trump's sudden rediscovery of the pandemic, his endorsement of masks and the return of his notorious briefings suggest a belated realization that public scorn over his denial-plagued leadership could end his presidency.
Trump suggested Monday that "many people say" that wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the disease is patriotic, in a tweet using ambiguous language that
CNN (Online News)
Jul 20 2020
News
Union Representing Disneyland Employees Worried About Health and Safety of its Workers
The happiest place on Earth has yet to reopen in Anaheim due to the health risk surrounding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The theme park is still pending government approval to reopen.
“We recognize that the COVID-19 situation is constantly evolving, which is why our reopening approach is deliberately fluid and phased, and there are many factors that are helping us determine the
Scriberr Media - News
Jul 20 2020
Opinion
University’s Return Plan to Classroom Ignores Pandemic’s Impact on Communities of Color
IOWA CITY — In early July, the United States surpassed three million COVID-19 cases. As of July 17, the country has confirmed more than 138,000 deaths stemming from the pandemic. Nonetheless, universities across the country are eager to send students, faculty, and instructional staff back into the classroom.
The University of Iowa (UI), where I am a graduate student and Teaching
Latino Rebels
Jul 22 2020
Opinion
How to Actually Talk to Anti-Maskers
As the Ebola epidemic raged in 2014, some West Africans resisted public health guidance. Some hid their symptoms or continued practicing burial rituals — like washing the bodies of their dead loved ones — despite the risk of infection. Others spread conspiracies claiming the virus was sent by Westerners or suggested it was all a hoax. In Conakry, Guinea’s capital city, an imam was arrested for
New York Times (Opinion)
Jul 22 2020
News
What's on the table in pandemic relief talks
President Trump and Senate Republicans are beginning negotiations with House Democrats on a new round of pandemic fiscal relief. Here are some of the major policies under consideration:
Payroll tax cut
Trump strongly supports providing a payroll tax cut to workers and their employers, but the proposal is not popular with Senate Republicans or Democrats.
White House chief
Washington Examiner
Jul 16 2020
News
Feinstein: States Without Mask Mandates Should Have COVID-19 Relief Withheld
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) vowed Thursday to push individual states toward adopting a mask mandate by introducing a legislative amendment in the Senate to prohibit states without mask requirements from receiving federal coronavirus relief in the next round of funding.
“Research shows that masks reduce transmission of the coronavirus,” said the California senator. “CDC Director
The Daily Wire
Oct 12 2021
News
CNN on Supply Chain Crisis: Consumers Can’t Expect to Shop Like Pre-Pandemic ‘Before Times’
President Joe Biden and his Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Transportation have failed to solve a supply chain crisis causing the backup of supplies at U.S. ports and cross country transportation as the left-wing media lays the blame solely on the coronavirus.
A CNN report said consumers can’t expect to shop like they did in the “Before Times” and highlighted manufacturers warning
Breitbart News
Jul 20 2020
Analysis
Fact-checkers take a look back at their work fighting COVID-19
In the midst of fighting misinformation about COVID-19, some fact-checkers have begun the process of analyzing their work to this point.
In Europe, fact-checking organizations Maldita.es, Full Fact, Pagella Politica/Facta, Correctiv, and Agence France-Presse collaborated to study the themes and spread of misinformation across the continent. The report found similar types of
Poynter
Jul 20 2020
News
Wolf says transparency bill jeopardizes private information, doubles down on veto
(The Center Square) – Gov. Tom Wolf said his resistance to signing a bill that requires access to public records during emergencies isn’t a rebuke of government transparency – it’s about protecting residents’ personal information, critical infrastructure and corporate trade secrets.
Lyndsay Kensinger, Wolf’s spokesperson, said the governor will veto House Bill 2463 later this week over
The Center Square - Michigan