The coronavirus continues to hit communities of color the hardest, with federal data showing African American and Latinx people are nearly three times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from the virus compared to their white neighbors. There were “pretty significant racial health disparities” even before COVID-19 ravaged the country, says Dr.
As COVID-19 cases rise and hospitalizations are soaring, hospitals in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California are running out of ICU beds. On Tuesday, Texas set a grim new record of 10,000 new cases in a single day. “It’s been astonishing,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent Dr. Sheri Fink, who has been reporting from Houston’s largest hospital. “They’ve been adding unit after unit after unit just to care for coronavirus patients.
As President Trump pressures states to reopen schools in the fall despite an alarming surge in new coronavirus cases, ICE says international students studying at U.S. universities could face deportation if their schools switch to online-only courses. The U.S. issues more than a million student visas a year, and international students account for as much as a third of the undergraduate student body at many colleges and universities and often constitute the majority of graduate students.
We’ve been together for six years now, and she’s usually an amazing person, but this hurt me deeply.
“Black people are interested in a variety of things—we don’t only want to talk about race.
Inside San Quentin, we’re just waiting for the virus to find us.
An extension would give taxpayers until Oct. 15 to file their returns, though they would still have to pay what they owe by July 15.
The acting chair of the CEA will leave Trump without another senior economist as discussions start about a new economic aid package.
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
Egyptian authorities have arrested scores of people, including doctors, medical workers, journalists, lawyers and activists, as the country grapples with the coronavirus outbreak. “Unlike nearly every other country in the Middle East, Egypt has not released thousands of prisoners as a precaution against the coronavirus. Instead, it’s arrested more people and cut off communication,” says Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Fox News host’s on-screen graphic is being compared to the infamous “14 words.
Washington R——s majority owner Dan Snyder has long been one of the biggest assholes in the NFL, and that is saying something, and is the person most responsible for the team keeping its blatantly racist name even after years of every sentient non-racist human pretty much agreeing that the name is odious and racist and for f—k’s sake just change it already.
Now the rest of the team’s owners want out, reports The Washington Post.
“The injury required sutures, and out of an abundance of caution, he stayed in the hospital overnight,” the court said in a statement.
President Donald Trump claimed that some schools were staying closed during the coronavirus pandemic for political reasons.
America’s far-right “Patriots” explored new ways to snooker themselves this holiday weekend in two rallies, both ostensibly aimed at attacking the “radical left,” on opposite sides of the country.
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hundreds of militiamen swarmed to the Civil War historical site to defend it against a supposed “antifa” protest that was in fact entirely a hoax and so never materialized.
In a demonstration of white privilege, a woman was shown in a viral video painting over a city-approved Black Lives Matter mural while the man she was with shouted about leftist delusions. Unluckily for the couple, however, California police have taken notice and sent out scene photos and links to the video in search of the pair.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has refused to release children and parents from crowded, dangerous detention facilities, even as COVID-19 was discovered at one of the jails. And it’s happening without meaningful oversight, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General deciding to cut off most in-person inspections of the facilities.
On July 1, several hundred public health organizations wrote a letter to Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar expressing—let’s say exasperation—with the Trump administration’s continued stifling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in particular, and resistance to competent, science-based pandemic messaging in general.
Some drugmakers have delayed or staggered increases amid increased scrutiny and the fear of catching President Donald Trump’s eye.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.(HULTON ARCHIVE / GETTY / KATIE MARTIN / THE ATLANTIC)June’s protests saw a series of victories for advocates of police reform. But the national conversation is far from over, and calls for further overhaul continue.
Governors and public health officials have warned the country’s virus response would be damaged if Trump lets the public health emergency expire later this month.
By making itself look absurd, Harvard is giving the rest of higher ed a little more breathing room.
This story was updated on July 7 at 10:17 p.m.The pandemic is out of control, the economy is in the toilet, and the weather is unpleasant, but at least the schadenfreude is excellent this week.Yesterday the Small Business Administration released a list of loan recipients under the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the hastily passed CARES Act stimulus. The list is full of targets ripe for naming and shaming.
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is worried about an “epidemic of lawsuits” against businesses as the coronavirus pummels workers.
Donald Trump’s niece writes in her forthcoming tell-all that the pandemic has increased her uncle’s “belligerence and need for petty revenge.
