26 April 2020
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26 April 20
Paul Krugman | McConnell to Every State: Drop Dead
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Covid-19 has killed tens of thousands of Americans, and will clearly kill many more. The lockdown needed to contain the coronavirus is causing an economic slump several times as deep as the Great Recession."
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Covid-19 has killed tens of thousands of Americans, and will clearly kill many more. The lockdown needed to contain the coronavirus is causing an economic slump several times as deep as the Great Recession."
EXCERPT:
Yet this necessary slump doesn’t have to be accompanied by severe financial hardship. We have the resources to ensure that every American has enough to eat, that people don’t lose health insurance, that they don’t lose their homes because they can’t pay rent or mortgage fees. There’s also no reason we should see punishing cuts in essential public services.
Unfortunately, it’s looking increasingly likely that tens of millions of Americans will in fact suffer extreme hardship and that there will be devastating cuts in services. Why? The answer mainly boils down to two words: Mitch McConnell.
Medical workers transporting a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward in Fuyang, China, on Saturday. Experts fear a coronavirus pandemic, but its severity is uncertain. (photo: Chinatopix/AP)
Coronavirus FAQs: Does a Bigger Dose Make You Sicker? Can You Go to the Dentist?
Laurel Wamsley and Pien Huang, NPR
Excerpt: While there is a lot we don't know about SARS-CoV-2, experts believe they can answer this question with confidence: Yes - the amount of virus a person is exposed to makes a difference in whether they get sick and how sick they get."
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Laurel Wamsley and Pien Huang, NPR
Excerpt: While there is a lot we don't know about SARS-CoV-2, experts believe they can answer this question with confidence: Yes - the amount of virus a person is exposed to makes a difference in whether they get sick and how sick they get."
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Voting by mail. (photo: Don Ryan/AP)
New York and Kentucky Just Made It Easier to Vote by Mail
Anya van Wagtendonk, Vox
van Wagtendonk writes: "New York and Kentucky announced new programs on Friday aimed at improving access to mail-in ballots, as both states work to find ways to limit interaction at the polls during upcoming elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic."
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Anya van Wagtendonk, Vox
van Wagtendonk writes: "New York and Kentucky announced new programs on Friday aimed at improving access to mail-in ballots, as both states work to find ways to limit interaction at the polls during upcoming elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic."
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The Teamsters Port Division, in collaboration with Labor Community Services and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, hosts a food distribution for port truck drivers impacted by the coronavirus shutdown measures at the Port of Los Angeles on April 22, 2020. (photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
The Left Must Seize This Moment, or Others Will
Alfredo Saad-Filho, Jacobin
Saad-Filho writes: "The COVID-19 pandemic will transform our world. Massive state intervention is essential to head off an unprecedented slump. We must come out of this crisis with a better society."
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Alfredo Saad-Filho, Jacobin
Saad-Filho writes: "The COVID-19 pandemic will transform our world. Massive state intervention is essential to head off an unprecedented slump. We must come out of this crisis with a better society."
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (right), flanked by World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme head Michael Ryan. (photo: AFP)
Trump Administration Is Preventing the US From Participating in Global Effort to Speed Development of Covid 19 Vaccine
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Nebehay writes: "The United States will not take part in the launching of a global initiative on Friday to speed the development, production and distribution of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19, a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva told Reuters."
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Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Nebehay writes: "The United States will not take part in the launching of a global initiative on Friday to speed the development, production and distribution of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19, a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva told Reuters."
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Inside of one of Hong Kong's 'cage homes.' (photo: Society for Community Organization/CNN)
Hong Kong's Cage Homes Are Almost Impossible to Self-Isolate In
Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Berlinger writes: "Cage homes are usually smaller than 100 square feet, only 25 square feet larger than most of the city's prison cells."
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Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Berlinger writes: "Cage homes are usually smaller than 100 square feet, only 25 square feet larger than most of the city's prison cells."
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Caged civet cats in a wildlife market in Guangzhou, China. (photo: Liu Dawei/AP)
'We Did It to Ourselves': Scientist Says Intrusion Into Nature Led to Pandemic
Phoebe Weston, Guardian UK
Weston writes: "The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity's excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading US scientist who says 'this is not nature's revenge, we did it to ourselves.'"
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Phoebe Weston, Guardian UK
Weston writes: "The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity's excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading US scientist who says 'this is not nature's revenge, we did it to ourselves.'"
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