‘Cronyism Ahead of Science’: Federal Doctor Says He Was Fired for Resisting Trump Promotion of Untested Covid-19 Treatments
Dr. Rick Bright said he “resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public.”
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Continued CO2 Emissions Will Impair Cognition
New research finds that an anticipated rise in carbon dioxide concentrations in our indoor living and working spaces by the year 2100 could lead to impaired human cognition.
Los Angeles Has Longest Stretch of Clean Air Since 1980 As Traffic and Pollution Plummet Amid Coronavirus Shutdown (PHOTOS)
With most people staying home during the coronavirus outbreak, Los Angeles now has some of the cleanest air of any major city.
The Democrats’ COBRA Proposal Is an Insurance Industry Bailout
We keep handing more money to the very for-profit insurance industry that is failing us.
US to Deploy Secretive Military Task Force as Washington Faces Coronavirus Spike
US government officials in Washington, DC are preparing for a coronavirus epidemic in the capital similar to New York, one that could potentially cripple the government, according to US media reports.
How Google Plans to Push Its Coronavirus Tracing Feature to Android Phones
Android has a notoriously patchy update cycle, so Google is using another method to push a new coronavirus tracing feature to phones without user interaction.
Antimatter Physicists Designed a Ventilator for Coronavirus Patients
Particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are joining the fight against Covid-19 with a new, low-cost design for scarce life-saving medical equipment.
Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears
Local hospitals have their own testing sites set up now, but it’s not yet clear if they will be able to handle the extra testing now that the federal help is being withdrawn.
New Research Shows Anti-Coronavirus Drugs Could Be Produced for Pennies
Instead, those drugs are being sold for thousands of dollars each, proving once again that the private, for-profit pharmaceutical industry is ill-equipped to handle a global public health crisis like COVID-19.
New York Mobilizes Rikers Island Prisoners To Dig Mass Graves for Coronavirus Victims
One month ago, MintPress News reported that, in the case of a particularly bad COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic in New York City, authorities had drawn up contingency plans to dump the Read More…
An Experimental Peptide Could Block Covid-19
MIT chemists are testing a protein fragment that may inhibit coronaviruses’ ability to enter human lung cells.
Michel Chossudovsky: After the Lockdown — A Global Coronavirus Vaccination Program…
What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis?
A coronavirus vaccine program was announced in Davos at the World Economic Forum (January 21-24) barely 2 weeks after the cornonavirus was identified by the Chinese authorities on January 7.
MIT-Based Team Works to Rapidly Deploy Open-Source, Low-Cost Ventilator For As Little As $400 In Parts
Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.
Worldwide Scientific Collaboration Unveils Genetic Architecture Of Gray Matter
For the first time, more 360 scientists from 184 different institutions have contributed to a global effort to find more than 200 regions of the genome and more than 300 specific genetic variations that affect the structure of the cerebral cortex and likely play important roles in psychiatric and neurological conditions.
Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare For All
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.