It’s been exactly a month since the Arizona Legislature adjourned on March 23. Jim and I have been social distancing, sheltering in place, cooking three meals a day, limiting shopping trips, and wearing masks and gloves when we do go out. We are healthy, and I hope you are, too. There have been protests recently … Read more
It’s not often that one of the world’s leading medical journals delivers a damning indictment of an American president, but that is what The Lancet has done in an editorial. COVID-19 in the USA: a question of time: With more than 600,000 confirmed cases and close to 27,000 deaths, the USA has become the current … Read more
While the entire country is consumed with COVID-19 medical and economic issues as well as the impact on culture and most importantly on our democracy, unspoken is that the crisis lays bare the inequality in America for women. That inequality extends to infrastructure, employment, insurance, medical care, the shredded safety net, domestic violence, … Read more
By Michelle Shaw It’s Earth Day, and we are in the midst of a global pandemic. Nothing will make you contemplate the Earth’s health as quickly as watching her spring back to life as 180,000 of your global citizens have lost their battle to simply breathe and fall victim to the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s almost … Read more
Update to Trump and his associates stand to profit from an unproven treatment he promotes for COVID-19. So it turns out that “Dr. Trump’s miracle cure” really is snake oil that is toxic to patients, and likely killed some patients before the Covid-19 did. The Associated Press reports, More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug … Read more