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Did Trump Delay the Arrival of At-Home Coronavirus Testing?

Coronavirus infections in the United States are growing exponentially, and lawmakers may soon face an awful choice between another round of shutdowns and the deaths of tens of thousands more Americans.A small band of scientists insist there is another way. They say that if every American took multiple coronavirus tests a week at home, we’d be able to figure out who is contagious.

An Election We Could Not Sit Out: How Indigenous Voters Helped Defeat Trump & Elect Biden

Native American voters saw a massive increase in turnout this year and helped deliver key swing states for Joe Biden, but Indigenous peoples and the role they played in defeating Donald Trump have been largely ignored in mainstream media analyses. We speak with Allie Young, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and founder of Protect the Sacred, who organized a horseback trail ride to the polls. She says it was important to her to motivate Indigenous youth to turn out.

As North Dakota Faces World’s Deadliest Outbreak, Native Communities Condemn States’ COVID Response

As COVID-19 rampages through the U.S., we look at how the rapid spread of the disease is affecting Native American communities, which have already faced disproportionate infection and death rates throughout the pandemic. “We’re having a lot of people perish. We’re having a lot of death, a lot of hospitalizations,” says Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former special assistant to President Obama for Native American affairs.

As COVID Deaths Soar, El Paso at Breaking Point with Hospitals & Mobile Morgues Filling Up

Some Republican governors are dropping their resistance to mask mandates, as public health officials in the United States brace for a COVID-19 surge from the Thanksgiving holiday amid already record-high infection rates. However, Republican resistance to other public health safety measures continues as coronavirus cases in Texas reach record highs for a second time during the pandemic. El Paso County, an area along the U.S.

‘Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiiiiiiiiiine’: Dolly Parton helps fund Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

The beloved country singer Dolly Parton seldom disappoints, from her proclamation during an interview with Billboard that “of course Black lives matter” to her nonprofit effort mailing free books to children each month. Now she’s out here helping fund a potentially life-saving coronavirus vaccine. Following the biotechnology company Moderna’s announcement that its coronavirus vaccine was reporting 94.

Marginalized communities react to Biden’s agenda for his first 100 days

President-elect Joe Biden has some ambitious plans for his first 100 days in office, and unlike the agendas of other presidents, it prioritizes several issues that aim to help communities of color, both directly and indirectly. Biden has pledged to take several bold, sweeping actions once he steps into the Oval Office, with some people questioning whether he’ll be able to do it all in the allotted time frame.

With undocumented immigrants essential amid pandemic, advocates push for driver’s license access

Many immigrants have already been essential workers—that role has become clearer than ever as the novel coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the U.S. But for immigrants who lack legal status, every day becomes risk on top of risk. Not only does their status as an essential worker leave them vulnerable to contracting COVID-19; driving as part of being an essential worker can also leave them at greater risk of being turned over to federal immigration authorities.