The number of Americans who believe the death toll is inflated is highest among those who get their news from Fox News (61%) and Republicans (59%), while only 9% of Democrats and 7% of those getting their news from CNN and MSNBC believe the same.
Source: Nearly A Third Of Americans Believe Covid-19 Death Toll Conspiracy Theory
A Flourish data visualisation by Panos Kaissaratos
Source: Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19 | Flourish
The country boosted healthcare spending to allow for contact tracing and enforced a nationwide lockdown in late March.
The state’s supply of mobile hospitals, ventilators and N95 respirators would have helped in the coronavirus outbreak, but the state got rid of them years ago.
Source: Pre coronavirus, California dismantled mobile hospitals – Los Angeles Times
In the immediate throes of an emergency, a little flailing is to be expected. It’s human nature. We are, by and large, fearful people prone to bad, selfish decisions when…
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The President has blustered and fibbed his way through life, but the charm has worn off with America’s well-being at risk
Source: Fareed’s Take: Coronavirus brings out the worst in Trump
Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. Look for his book “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Deadly Germs” for more info. https://amzn.to/2IAzeLehttp://www.cidrap.umn.edu/
To Tommy Douglas, universal health care was an essential part of the kingdom of God.
Source: How a Baptist Pastor Developed Canada’s Single-Payer System | Sojourners
