Virus surge breaks hospital records amid rising toll on kids
The surge is largely fueled by the highly contagious delta variant among people who are unvaccinated.
By Associated Press - August 29, 2021The surge is largely fueled by the highly contagious delta variant among people who are unvaccinated.
By Associated Press - August 29, 2021New COVID-19 cases are up almost 500% in South Dakota since the Sturgis motorcycle rally.
By Oliver Willis - August 27, 2021Republican lawmakers have opposed any legislation to extend the moratorium.
By Josh Israel - August 27, 2021Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has recently been suspended from Twitter for promoting vaccine falsehoods.
By Oliver Willis - August 12, 2021Florida and Texas have banned schools and businesses from requiring that people wear masks or be vaccinated.
By Emily Singer - August 09, 2021Kristi Noem is appearing at a motorcycle rally event in Sturgis despite spiking numbers of COVID-19 cases.
By Josh Israel - August 05, 2021Frustrated by their leaders’ responses to COVID, doctors are taking action to change things themselves. Could 2022 be the year of the physician candidate?
By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 30, 2021New polling shows Republican messaging against vaccination requirements is not finding popular support.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2021GOP lawmakers are upset over re-instituted mask requirements meant to curb the spread of coronavirus variants.
By Josh Israel - July 29, 2021Republicans are very mad that the CDC is recommending mask use again.
By Josh Israel - July 28, 2021The number of active cases of COVID has surged over 12,770 in Arkansas, and two children were reported to have died.
By Oliver Willis - July 23, 2021Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) demanded the media ask Democrats whether they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19.
By Emily Singer - July 22, 2021The Colorado Republican joins fellow GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in making the offensive comparison.
By Emily Singer - July 08, 2021The New York Republican congresswoman is comparing today’s gas prices to those from the middle of the pandemic, when gas was cheap because the country was in lockdown.
By Emily Singer - July 06, 2021Experts warn there aren’t enough shelter beds, which means sending many people back on the streets.
By Associated Press - June 28, 2021The CDC reports that 150 million Americans have been fully vaccinated.
By Associated Press - June 21, 2021The housing crisis risks putting homeownership out of the reach of lower-income Americans.
By Associated Press - June 18, 2021The pandemic forced many Latinas to leave work to care not just for their children but also for extended family.
By Associated Press - June 18, 2021A total of 136 GOP lawmakers are demanding an end to proxy voting.
By Josh Israel - June 16, 2021The pandemic underscored what reform advocates have been saying for years: Cramped and filthy jails are the wrong place for most people who have been arrested.
By Associated Press - June 13, 2021Older people are sharing their memories of the polio era with young people as a lesson of hope for emergence from COVID-19.
By Associated Press - June 12, 2021The South Dakota governor cited a study showing the state was the best place ‘to find a job,’ but left out other data showing it trailing behind a large portion of the country.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 2021New Yorker Brian Walter tried to turn his guilt and grief over his father’s death from COVID-19 into positive deeds.
By Associated Press - June 06, 2021Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) falsely claimed most Americans are already vaccinated.
By Josh Israel - May 25, 2021Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is using the rhetoric to come out against safety measures at schools.
By Emily Singer - May 25, 2021‘We have finally found the one thing that makes us more attractive — a vaccination,’ said White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt.
By Associated Press - May 22, 2021Some experts say the CDC is relaxing its recommendations too soon.
By Associated Press - May 22, 2021Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature and those aiming to replace Gov. Tom Wolf in 2023 have made Wolf their top political target, repeatedly attacking his stewardship during the pandemic.
By Associated Press - May 19, 2021Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) led nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers to take off their masks in violation of House rules.
By Emily Singer - May 19, 2021The pandemic ‘has further exposed and exacerbated inequities in our justice system’ as legal services were curtailed, President Joe Biden wrote.
By Associated Press - May 18, 2021