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The FDA Now Warns Against Using More Than 100 Hand Sanitizers

The FDA Now Warns Against Using More Than 100 Hand Sanitizers

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now warning against more than 100 potentially dangerous hand sanitizers. Since June, the agency has been expanding its list of hand sanitizers that may be contaminated with deadly methanol alcohol. But on Friday, the FDA announced a new problem. While some hand sanitizers contain the wrong kind of […]

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    Marathon Petroleum Takes Bailout Tax Breaks During Pandemic

    Marathon Petroleum Takes Bailout Tax Breaks During Pandemic

    By Sarah Thomas and Nathan Heffernan Fossil fuel companies have reaped millions of dollars in benefits from a stimulus package intended to help struggling Americans and the economy. Among these is Marathon Petroleum, the largest oil refiner in the country, which has a history of air pollution violations impacting low-income and Black and Brown communities. […]

    Democrats Demand Trump Reverse Order Directing COVID-19 Data to HHS

    Democrats Demand Trump Reverse Order Directing COVID-19 Data to HHS

    By Jake Johnson Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate are demanding that the Trump administration immediately reverse an order requiring hospitals to send Covid-19 patient information directly to a Health and Human Services database instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a change that threw the data-collection process into chaos as states […]

    Global Hunger Is Increasing, New UN Report Finds

    Global Hunger Is Increasing, New UN Report Finds

    By Michael Fakhri and Ntina Tzouvala According to a new United Nations report, global rates of hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. The report estimates that in 2019, 690 million people – 8.9% of the world’s population – were undernourished. It predicts that this number will exceed 840 million by 2030. If you also […]

    Until Teachers Feel Safe, Widespread In-Person K-12 Schooling May Prove Impossible in U.S.

    Until Teachers Feel Safe, Widespread In-Person K-12 Schooling May Prove Impossible in U.S.

    By Michael Addonizio Safely resuming in-person instruction at U.S. public schools is important for the academic, physical, emotional and social well-being of children and their families. It’s also a key factor for the nation’s economic recovery. But in mid-July, despite considerable pressure from the Trump administration, many school systems around the nation had announced that […]

    Trump Orders Hospitals to Stop Sending COVID-19 Data to CDC

    Trump Orders Hospitals to Stop Sending COVID-19 Data to CDC

    By Jake Johnson Public health experts are warning that coronavirus statistics will soon be newly vulnerable to political manipulation after the Trump administration ordered hospitals to send Covid-19 patient data directly to a Department of Health and Human Services system rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which usually receives the information and […]

    Oxfam Warns 12,000 Could Die Per Day From Hunger Due to Pandemic

    Oxfam Warns 12,000 Could Die Per Day From Hunger Due to Pandemic

    By Andrea Germanos Oxfam International warned Thursday that up to 12,000 people could die each day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to the coronavirus pandemic—a daily death toll surpassing the daily mortality rate from Covid-19 itself. April saw the highest global daily mortality rate for Covid-19 thus far […]

    COVID-19 and the Global Food Supply: Big Lessons From the World’s Small Farms

    COVID-19 and the Global Food Supply: Big Lessons From the World’s Small Farms

    The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both the strengths and limitations of globalization. The crisis has made people aware of how industrialized food production can be, and just how far food can travel to get to the local supermarket. There are many benefits to this system, including low prices for consumers and larger, even global, markets […]