Honoring those who have died from the coronavirus pandemic

Sometime in the next few days,  the number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 will reach the milestone of 100,000 (the actual number of deaths attributable to COVID-19 already exceeds 100,000 according to medical experts). On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked President Donald Trump in a letter … Read more

Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not

Dr. Trump’s traveling medicine show snake oil “miracle cure” is being put to the test in control studies, and so far, the results are showing that the “miracle cure” can kill you. The Washington Post reports, Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says: A … Read more

The Trump Depression: the road not taken to economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic (Updated)

The U.S. economic response to the coronavirus pandemic has been entirely ass-backwards and is doomed to cause greater economic pain in coming months. It relied on antiquated state unemployment insurance systems that Republican states have specifically designed to be hard to use to dissuade the unemployed from filing for benefits to which they are entitled, … Read more