Meet the New Yes Man on Trump’s COVID Task Force: Dr. Scott Atlas Wants U.S. to Adopt Herd Immunity (9/01/2020)
- New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials (8/30/2020)

How the Pandemic Defeated America: Ed Yong on How COVID-19 Humiliated Planet’s Most Powerful Nation (8/11/2020)
- How the Pandemic Defeated America (The Atlantic)

Public Health vs. Politics: White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States (8/04/2020)
- How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” (7/30/2020)

Sonia Shah: “It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus — Our Lives Depend on It” (7/17/2020)

It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus—Our Lives Depend on It: The way we talk about contagion matters.
It shapes how societies respond—and whether many of us will survive. (The Nation: 7/14/2020)

Philadelphia Delays Unhoused Encampment Eviction as CDC Says “Let Them Remain” & Stop COVID Spread (7/17/2020)

COVID-Stricken Marc Lamont Hill: New Floyd Video Shows Familiar Ritual of Racist Police Terror (7/16/2020)

“The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse”: Is Another Lockdown the Only Way to Avoid Catastrophe? (7/16/2020)

Tucson Mayor Romero Slams Arizona Gov. Ducey for Downplaying COVID & Hasty Reopening as ICUs Fill (7/15/2020)

“Release Is Only Way to Save Lives”: Migrant Families Face Separation as COVID Spreads in ICE Jails (7/14/2020)

As COVID Infections Soar, Trump Attacks Dr. Fauci, CDC & Pushes Schools to Reopen at All Costs (7/13/2020)

How to Stop the Next Pandemic: U.N. Report Links Outbreaks to Climate Crisis & Industrial Farming (7/09/2020)
- Preventing the next pandemic - Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission

ICE Threatens to Deport or Bar International Students If Schools Move Classes Online Due to Pandemic (7/08/2020)

“They Don’t Care About Our Health”: Hunger Striker at Otay Mesa ICE Jail Speaks Out as COVID Spreads (7/07/2020)Outbreak at San Quentin: COVID Is Skyrocketing in CA Prisons. Why Haven’t More People Been Released? (6/24/2020)

Commonly used steroid reduces risk of death in sickest corona virus patients, preliminary study results suggest (6/16/2020)

Study: Over 42% of All US COVID-19 deaths from nursing homes with just 1.8% of US Population in nursing homes

Stay Home, Stay Safe, Be Kind: What New Zealand Can Teach the World About Eliminating COVID-19 (5/26/2020)

As New Zealand Eliminates COVID, Epidemiologist Says “We Look at Trump’s Behavior & We’re Horrified” (5/26/2020)

“Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion”: India’s Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown (5/22/2020)

Outdated Virginia unemployment system puts strain on demand for assistance during COVID-19 (5/21/2020) - "The Virginia Employment Commission’s five-person customer service team is getting as many as 20,000 emails a day, said spokeswoman Joyce Fogg..."

As NYC Subway Closures Force Unhoused People into Packed Shelters, Advocates Demand Permanent Homes (5/20/2020)

How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now (May 18, 2020)
- Epidemics and Society: From The Black Death To The Present

On GPS: How a Boston hospital guarded against Covid-19: Dr. Atul Gawande (5/17/2020)
- Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry (5/13/2020)

Coronavirus Pandemic Prompts Global Mental Health Crisis as Millions Feel Alone, Anxious & Depressed (5/14/2020)
- When the Pandemic Leaves Us Alone, Anxious and Depressed: We are in a dual crisis of physical and mental health.
But there are ways to head off breakdowns. (4/9/2020)

When Patients Die Alone, How Do Families and Health Workers Cope, Relieve Suffering? (5/14/2020)

Last Words to Comfort the Dying: “Thank You. Please Forgive Me. I Forgive You. I Love You. Goodbye.” (5/14/2020)

WATCH: As new clusters emerge, WHO warns virus may be here to stay (PBS: 5/13/2020) - “This virus may never go away,” Dr. Michael Ryan said in a press briefing Wednesday. Without a vaccine, he said it could take years for the global population to build up sufficient levels of immunity. “I think it’s important to put this on the table,” he said. “This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities,” he said.

Profiting from the Pandemic: Will Pharmaceutical Giants Use Patents to Limit Access to COVID Drugs? (5/07/2020)
- With Patents on Coronavirus Medicines, International Drug Companies Will Decide Whether Brazilians Live or Die (5/7/2020)
- Patents vs. the Pandemic (4/23/2020)
- We'll find a treatment for coronavirus – but drug companies will decide who gets it (4/15/2020)

How Russia Became the Next COVID-19 Hot Spot: Infection Rate Soars with 10,000 New Cases Each Day (5/07/2020)

As Trump Claims “Fantastic Job” on COVID, Reporter Laurie Garrett Warns Pandemic May Last 36+ Months (5/6/2020)

The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration (5/05/2020)
- GOLDEN GULAG Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, And Opposition In Globalizing California

Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in U.S. with Limited Healthcare & Water (5/5/2020)

Blame and counter-charges: the U.S.-China rhetorical war over COVID-19 (5/4/2020)

ER Doctor: Pulse Oximeters Detect Oxygen Deprivation Earlier from COVID-19, Help Avoid Ventilators (5/04/2020)
- The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients: This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital. (4/20/2020)

Economist Thomas Piketty: Coronavirus Pandemic Has Exposed the “Violence of Social Inequality” (4/30/2020)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Capital and Ideology

LIZ WHEELER ASKS ALL THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF COVID LOCKDOWN LAWS (4/28/2020)

The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreak: On New Year's Eve, a small company in
Canada was among the first to raise the alarm about an infectious disease outbreak. Its computer algorithm calculated where
the virus might spread next. The technology could change the way we fight another contagion. (CBS News: 60 Minutes: 4/27/2020)

Scientific American: As Trump Touts Dangerous Cures, Here’s What We Know About COVID-19 Drug Tests (4/27/2020)
- Here’s What We Know about the Most Touted Drugs Tested for COVID-19 (Scientific American: 4/16/2020)

President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat (The Washington Post; 4/27/2020)

CBS >> 60 Minutes >> S52 E27 >> Critical Condition, Talking to the Past (4/5/2020)

Coronavirus patients testing positive 70 DAYS after getting the all clear leaving Chinese doctors totally baffled

Chinese Medical Team Report Successful Treatment Of Corona virus Patients With High-Dose Vitamin C

Handcuffed: Black Miami Doctor Who Works with Homeless Says He Was Racially Profiled by Police (4/20/2020)

“Pure Baloney”: Zoologist Debunks Trump’s COVID-19 Origin Theory, Explains Animal-Human Transmission (4/16/2020)

“I Want an Apology”: Black Doctor Who Tests Homeless for Coronavirus Handcuffed by Miami Police (4/15/2020)

What Trump Knew & When He Knew It: NYT on How Trump Ignored COVID-19 Warnings Until It Was Too Late (4/13/2020)

W.H.O. Wants To Remove Your Family Members: GENOCIDE ~ ITS HAPPENING PEOPLE WAKE THE HELL UP (4/12/2020)

CORONA HOPE British coronavirus vaccine could be just WEEKS away as Oxford Uni say they’re ‘80% confident’ new drug will work (4/12/2020)

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus: An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response. (04/11/2020)

Deaths of Inequality: AOC on Black and Latinx Communities at Epicenter of Epicenter of the Pandemic (4/07/2020)

Amazon “Profiting from This Pandemic” as Warehouse Workers Walk Off Job to Demand Safer Conditions (4/07/2020)

How Taiwan Contained COVID-19: Early Action, Technology & Millions of Face Masks (4/03/2020)

“Humanitarian Solidarity”: Even Under U.S. Sanctions, Cuba Sends Doctor Brigade to Italy and More (3/24/2020)

Former ICE Director: Release Immigrants from Detention or COVID-19 Will Spread Like Wildfire Inside (3/23/2020)
- I Used to Run ICE. We Need to Release the Nonviolent Detainees. It’s the only way
to protect detention facilities and the people in them from COVID-19. (3/22/2020)

60 Minutes: S52 E25 Stopping the Virus, The Economic Emergency, A Populist Movement: Scientists rush to develop a novel corona virus vaccine; Then, Fed official uncertain how economy will fare during the corona virus crisis; And, why Hungary is paying its citizens to start families