Big Ag Basically Wrote Trump’s Order to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During COVID

A sign for The Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in South Dakota, one of the countrys largest known Coronavirus clusters, is seen on April 20, 2020 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images) Large meat manufacturers promoted “baseless” fears they knew were “flimsy or outright false” that shutting down meatpacking plants would […]

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Ex-CDC Chief Says Trump Administration Silenced Him on COVID

CDC Director Robert Redfield speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield told House investigators that one of his “greatest disappointments” was that the CDC’s public-facing role in […]

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Big Shocker: Ivermectin Does Not Work Against COVID

Ivermectin tablets (Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that’s been popularized by anti-vaxxers as a purported remedy for COVID-19, does not reduce COVID hospitalizations at all, a new clinical study of patients in Brazil showed. The randomized double-blind study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, gave 679 people ivermectin […]

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Biden Just Extended Student Loan Pause Until May Because of Omicron

President Joe Biden speaks at commencement exercises for South Carolina State University on Friday, December 17, 2021, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) Merry Christmas! If you aren’t currently paying back your federal student loans, you just got another extension before you have to start again. After months of pressure from student debt–relief advocates […]

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