Новости за 24.04.2020

During the 1970s when I was growing up in Southern California, the air was so polluted that I was regularly sent home from high school to “shelter in place.” There might not seem to be much in common between staying home due to air pollution and staying home to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but fundamentally, […]

In the rural South, the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming a silent disaster. As rural residents commute to jobs in cities and transportation hubs, they’re being exposed to the virus and bringing it home to a population already at risk. Chronic diseases that can lead to more severe COVID-19 symptoms are common across the rural South. […]

According to a report from Politico, the Republican party leadership has grown increasingly panicked over the downward slide in Donald Trump’s approval numbers that could spread and cripple the entire party before the November election. More concerning to the party leadership is an internal battle within the Trump 2020 campaign over the strategy to halt […]

Jason Roberge, a Republican congressional candidate from Virginia, was recently thrown for a loop when a reporter from the U.K.’s Sky News explained to him how sending people back to work in the middle of a pandemic could have deadly consequences. In a Sky News report about the anti-lockdown protests in Virginia, reporter Amanda Walker […]

President Donald Trump’s political advisers fear the coronavirus pandemic will destroy his chances to win over suburban women voters — but he doesn’t seem to understand. Five sources from the 2020 campaign or in the administration told The Daily Beast that their own polling shows suburban women will be crucial to Trump’s re-election, and two […]

The now-viral video of Dr. Deborah Birx to President Donald Trump’s Thursday night ramblings about disinfectant injections has drawn a sympathetic reaction from one former government official who worked under the president. Brett McGurk, the former special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, explains on Twitter that Trump’s bizarre statements about pie-in-the-sky […]

Speaking with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski on the morning after Donald Trump suggested treating coronavirus victims with household cleaners — including injections — regular “Morning Joe” contributor and Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle suggested now is the time that administration officials should seriously consider using the 25th Amendment to remove the president from […]

“This administration is committed to fulfilling the decades-long pursuit by some to sacrifice our public Postal Service at the altar of private profit.” The 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union accused President Donald Trump of plotting to “sacrifice our public Postal Service at the altar of private profit” after the Washington Post reported late Thursday that […]

The manufacturer of Lysol was forced to fact check President Donald Trump’s claims that disinfectant could be taken internally as a possible treatment for coronavirus. The president suggested injecting disinfectant or somehow using powerful light inside the body to treat COVID-19 infections, but manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser strongly cautioned against doing that. “Due to recent speculation […]

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was shocked and horrified by President Donald Trump’s recommendation to inject disinfectants or somehow use UV light internally to treat the coronavirus. The “Morning Joe” host repeatedly rolled a clip of the president asking his baffled public health adviser Dr. Deborah Birx whether “light inside of the body” could be used to […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces the biggest conundrum of his premiership as he recuperates from COVID-19: how to lift a lockdown that is destroying swathes of the British economy without triggering a deadly second wave of the outbreak. Johnson, 55, is on the mend at his country residence after spending three nights in intensive care at […]

“ALERT! Please do not ingest, inject, inhale, or otherwise use any disinfectant outside of its labeled instructions. And do not start using tanning beds or sunning without sunscreen.” President Donald Trump used the daily Coronavirus Task Force briefing Thursday night to once again speculate dangerously and ignorantly on possible treatments for the Covid-19, this time […]

President Donald Trump has been trying to portray former Vice President Joe Biden as a pawn of the Chinese government — but a new report from Politico claims that the president is literally tens of millions of dollars in debt to a Chinese state-owned bank. According to the report, a Trump real estate partner in […]

Many of President Donald Trump’s evangelical Christian supporters believe that it is their God-given duty to defy lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic, as they believe obeying restrictions will result in the establishment of an anti-Christian dictatorship. Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift writes that pandemic restrictions have become yet another heated culture war for evangelicals […]

President Donald Trump’s political appointees tried to “flood” two states with doses of a malaria drug dubiously hyped as a potential coronavirus treatment. As the president promoted the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, emails and other documents obtained by Vanity Fair show his political appointees tried to pressure top U.S. health officials to widely distribute the medication […]

Hollywood megastar and coronavirus survivor Tom Hanks has written a comforting letter to a bullied Australian boy called Corona and gifted him a cherished typewriter bearing the same name. Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in March and spent two weeks recovering in a Queensland hospital, before […]

Hours after Donald Trump stunned medical professionals — as well as television viewers — by suggesting that coronavirus patients could somehow be treated with household disinfectants, conservative campaign consultant Rick Wilson raked the president over the coals for the suggestion that he succinctly called “insane.” In a column for the Daily Beast, Wilson called out […]

Elena Milashina had received death threats before. But they were never so direct or brazen. The erratic and iron-fisted leader of Chechnya in southern Russia, unhappy with her journalism about the coronavirus, put out an unambiguous call for violence against the reporter on social media this month. Ramzan Kadyrov “was direct in saying what he […]

The mayor of Japan’s Osaka has come under fire for suggesting men should do grocery shopping during the coronavirus outbreak because women are indecisive and “take a long time.” Japan is under a state of emergency over the pandemic, and residents in some areas have been asked to shop less frequently and only send one […]

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has predicted that US President Donald Trump will try to postpone the country’s November election in an attempt to win. “Mark my words, I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held,” Biden said during an […]

US oil prices were set to end a historically bad week on a positive note, extending gains Friday owing to rising Iran-US tensions, though equities edged down following a series of crushing economic data. As the rates of infection and deaths linked to the coronavirus show signs of easing in some countries thanks to draconian […]

While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, some anti-vaccine groups are joining with anti-lockdown protesters to challenge restrictions aimed at protecting public health. Vaccine critics suffered serious setbacks in the past year, as states strengthened immunization lawsin response to measles […]

We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. “We should make no mistake, that this country […]

After all this time, he still hasn’t figured out how to do the job. President Donald Trump entered the White House as a political neophyte, and he’s shown perhaps the worst learning curve of any of his predecessors. Despite the fact that it feels as though the past three years of his presidency had enough […]

Fox News host Laura Ingraham and guest Raymond Arroyo, the lead anchor of the news division for Eternal Word Television Network, dedicated more than five minutes of airtime Wednesday night to mocking CNN anchors who tested positive for COVID-19. CNN’s coverage, they claimed, “seems to be a deliberate attempt to graft” network talent onto a […]