by George Goehl | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Keeping our wits about us is no easy lift, certainly not now as we all shelter in place and anticipate the impact COVID-19 will have on our lives. And yet, doing so will allow us to organize and live from a place of power and grace. Crises like the one we face today...
by Tom Conway | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Photo credit: USAF / Senior Airman Jarad A. Denton / cc Under normal circumstances, Jerry Porter would be spending his time helping the veterans he finds in tent camps and run-down housing. But the escalating threat of COVID-19 forces the community activist and...
by Thom Hartmann | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured
Photo credit: National Archives / Wikimedia / cc The coronavirus crisis has turned the fact that we don’t make anything in America anymore from a topic for philosophical and political debate into a crisis in our hospitals causing people to die and endangering our...
by Gloria Totten | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health
A few days ago, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick went on Fox News to deliver the message, “Let’s get back to work. Let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it, and those of us that are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country.”...
by Alex Lawson | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Tony Webster / flickr / cc Editor's update: After Public Citizen, People's Action and 50 other groups demanded Gilead Pharmaceuticals end its claim of "orphan drug" status for remdesivir, a potential treatment for COVID-19, Gilead has asked the FDA to...
by Joy Blackwood, Natasha DeJarnett, Surili Sutaria Patel | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Joint Base San Antonio / cc There’s been a massive failure of leadership in the United States in preparation, containment, treatment and protecting our residents from the cascading effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. As Board members of Physicians for...
