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Trump Said This Drug Showed Promise Against Coronavirus. Now a Man Is Dead and His Wife Is Hospitalized
An Arizona couple made the costly mistake of listening to the president. During a recent press briefing, President Trump touted the potential benefits of a drug called hydroxychloroquine, despite no drug being approved to prevent or treat coronavirus. The couple remembered the name since it sounded similar to chloroquine phosphate, a drug they used to…
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Doctors Express Concern About Access to Coronavirus Testing in Black Communities
The black community has long been underserved when it comes to healthcare in America. Whether that comes from a lack of access to quality healthcare or our concerns not being taken seriously, it’s been a problem facing us for years. Now that we’re in the midst of a public health crisis unlike any we’ve seen…
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Nashom Wooden, a Standout Star in NYC's Influential Drag Scene, Reportedly Dead From COVID-19
Friends of Nashom Wooden, the performer behind the iconic drag persona Mona Foot, say he recently passed from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Geoffrey Mac, a designer who won season 18 of the reality show Project Runway, shared a video on Instagram cautioning everyone to stay healthy as the pandemic continues to…
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Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley Propose Massive Student Debt Relief Plan Ahead of Coronavirus-Spurred Recession
The fight against the coronavirus outbreak is a global endeavor, and as local and national governments around the world scramble to manage the global health crisis, they must also prepare for another devastating reality: a global recession. Making sure aid is equitable and effective is the burden laid upon American lawmakers and public officials—especially in…
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Tokyo Organizing Committee Now Concedes Postponing the Olympics Is Now a ‘Realistic Option’ [Updated]
Updated, 3/23/20, 5:15 p.m. ET: Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee, announced at a news conference Monday that postponement of the Olympics is now a “realistic option,” according to CNN. Mori said that the country’s organizing committee is working with the International Olympic Committee to come up with alternatives. “Postponement isn’t our first…
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First Responders Plead for Trump Administration to Prioritize Them for Coronavirus Tests
If you’re like me, it feels like the coronavirus pandemic just straight exposed all the failings of our current systems. You would think being caught with their pants down would spur the Trump administration to be more proactive about, well, everything. Apparently not, though. The Trump administration spent the last week deferring blame, proposing questionable…
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Pauses on Foreclosures and Evictions Amid Coronavirus Crisis Protect Millions of Homeowners. Renters, Not so Much
As “shelter in place” orders are increasing across the country amid the coronavirus outbreak, eviction notices are still being issued by landlords and renters are still facing the possibility of being put out of their homes. While Trump announced on Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would be “providing immediate relief…
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NYC Correctional Facilities Struggle With Crowded Jails, Officials Urge City to Release More Inmates
On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the release of 40 of the city’s inmates who were convicted of minor, nonviolent offenses in order to lessen the burden on NYC prisons and jails affected by the coronavirus outbreak. After the city’s Board of Corrections declared in a letter (pdf) to NYC’s criminal…
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The DOJ Appears to Be Using Coronavirus to Get Around Our Constitutional Right to Due Process (Among Other Things)
As the coronavirus crisis continues to dominate mainstream media and the general public continues to be in frenzy mode, the Department of Justice has quietly asked something of Congress that would lend feelings of vindication to every amateur conspiracy theorist clogging our newsfeeds with their hot-takes on how the government created the virus in order…
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White Supremacists Had Plans to Weaponize Coronavirus: Even Amid a Global Pandemic, They Choose Hate
President Donald Trump may be stoking the flames of racism and xenophobia by repeatedly referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus,” but it appears white supremacists have been contradicting that narrative for some time by attempting to adopt the virus as their bioweapon of choice. Yahoo News reported that federal investigators have been monitoring…