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
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
Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more
Back in March, I warned you about The Saudi Arabia-Russia oil war against U.S. oil producers (snippet): Two of Donald Trump’s favorite autocrat buddies, Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Vladimir Putin of Russia, have decided to engage in a price war over oil in an effort to capture market share in … Read more
State and local officials are forced to compete against one another to purchase personal protection equipment (PPE), in a fierce global competition for masks, gowns, ventilators and other medical supplies. The Trump administration has refused to federally coordinate PPE distribution. The Trump administration tells state and local officials not to rely on the federal government because the federal … Read more