Where’s the data? Florida removes proof of over 100 COVID-19 cases going back to December

The virus spread through Central and North Florida in January under the guise of the flu and the earliest cases included both residents and visitors, the Miami Herald reported. Claude Dharamraj, former leader of the Pinellas County Health Department, told the Palm Beach Post that tracing the disease within the first two months of 2020…

Republicans threaten low-wage workers with fraud charges if they’re too scared to go back to work

That message came through loud and clear to Arkansas massage therapist Tracy McFetridge, HuffPost reports, when her state’s secretary of commerce said that anyone who could return to work but kept collecting unemployment was “a fraudulent claim for us, and we will be tracking that.” So McFetridge went back to a job that requires her to…

As virus takes heavy toll on people of color, Harris wants task force to study why and propose fixes

Examples of the disparities are widespread. In Louisiana, 70% of residents killed by the coronavirus have been African American even though they only make up 32% of the population. In Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County, 75% of coronavirus deaths are among African Americans, who make up only 26% of the population. On the sprawling Navajo Nation, the largest Native…

A coronavirus wake-up call is coming to red America, complicating Trump’s push to reopen

“There is a stereotypical view of the places in America that COVID-19 has affected most: they are broadly urban, comprised predominantly of racial minorities, and strongly vote Democratic,” demographer and Brookings Institution senior fellow William Frey writes in a post on his new analysis. But during the first three weeks of April, Frey adds, “new counties…

Trump ‘compromises public trust,’ former surgeon general said, even before bleach-injection scandal

Daily Kos Staff Friday April 24, 2020 · 7:48 AM PDT 2020/04/24 · 07:48 Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Donald Trump’s approach to coronavirus information is dangerous, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN’s Brian Stelter. And while that’s not exactly news in the wake of Trump’s ultraviolet-light-and-bleach-cure advice, Murthy said that before Trump…

Black business owner on COVID-19 small business loan program: We’re ‘just screwed’

Business owners of color were already at a massive disadvantage going into this pandemic. While Blacks made up 12.7% of the population, they owned just 4.3% of the nations’ businesses, according to the 2012 census of business owners. Latino and Hispanic Americans account for 16.4% of the population, but 12% of businesses. And just 1%—ONE PERCENT—of…

Republicans fear Trump’s abysmal coronavirus handling is sinking his reelection

In Florida, for instance, Trump mini-me Gov. Ron DeSantis has actually seen his approval ratings sink by at least a handful of points amid the pandemic, while most other governors have seen a double-digit spike in their approval ratings. The Sunshine State is a nonnegotiable for Trump and while DeSantis was very popular precoronavirus, Trump could…