Tag: pandemic

“They’re just running wild.”

“Taxing excess profits during a crisis is an old idea whose time has come again.”

New red flags about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak come after Trump focused on upsides in televised briefing.

And cost so much?

“What we do have is we have perhaps the lowest, but among the lowest, but perhaps the lowest, mortality rate—death rate—anywhere in the world.”

“SNAP delivered. Like it always does.”

One thing is inescapable: as the disaster aboard the Theodore Roosevelt indicates, the U.S. military must reconsider how it arms and structures its forces and give serious thought to alternative models of organization.

If pharmaceutical companies don’t voluntarily help people in poor countries, those governments can do what they’ve done in past health crises: let other companies produce generic versions of patented medicines, to protect the common good.

We speak with Dr. Ali Khan, epidemiologist and the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, about the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis and his hopes for a vaccine.

Selective in its impact, the virus has struck the homeless hard...