Hey Nevada County! Call Doug LaMalfa!
How Many Survivors of the Trump Virus Will Survive Trump’s War on the Postal Service? Watch this short but outrageous Rachel Maddow video (3 min 47 sec), then call Doug LaMalfa’s office and ask him if he supports Trump’s war on the Postal Service, and — if not — what he’s going to do…
New postmaster general invested in Postal Service competitors
President Donald Trump appointed a new postmaster general for the U.S. Postal Service in May, and this summer his pick has come under criticism on social media. “New (Republican) businessman Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has $70m invested in companies that compete w/the Postal Service,” Facebook user Florence Vincent wrote in a post on July 27. She told…
100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world
Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago On Sunday, New Zealand marked 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65…
Video: What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means
Melissa Hawkins, American University Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions recently published a study which estimated that the true number of people infected by COVID-19 could be six to 24 times higher than the number of confirmed cases. Melissa Hawkins, professor of public health at American University, explains…