Month: April 2022

Many schools across the US gambled on offering in-person classes in early August, even as their states were still battling uncontrolled spread of Covid-19. In some of those schools, it hasn’t gone well. Click Here: In Georgia’s Cherokee County School District, for example, there have been at least 80 positive cases since August 3, and …

Read More ““This is exactly what we’ve been warning about”: Why some school reopenings have backfired”

One month ago, I asked epidemiologist Tara Smith if she was worried about states loosening their stay-at-home orders, despite most not meeting the government’s criteria for doing so. “I am really fearful that by June 1 or June 15, after we’ve seen a couple weeks to a month of [state reopenings], that our cases are …

Read More ““Totally predictable”: State reopenings have backfired”

As polling almost unanimously (over)predicted, Joe Biden has amassed the electoral votes necessary to become the 46th president of the United States. The outlook for global warming has consequently been upgraded from hopeless to merely very desperate. Without the Senate, which will likely remain in Republican hands (though control could come down to two runoffs …

Read More “Joe Biden will be president, but there will be no Green New Deal”

The United States has passed another stunning benchmark in the Covid-19 pandemic, recording 121,200 new cases on Thursday. That followed Wednesday’s record-breaking 100,000-plus case toll. And the worst is almost certainly still to come. This doesn’t look like the peak; we’re in the midst of a climb. Next week, another record may be broken. Click …

Read More “The US Covid-19 epidemic hit a deadly new milestone, and help isn’t on the way”