Today, President Biden is expected to sign an executive order to address racism toward Asian Americans during the pandemic. (via @cbsnews) cbsnews.com/news/biden-rac…
Back in April, we reported that more than 30 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming Asian people for the pandemic. publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…
In May, sixteen Democratic senators urged the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to address the surge in discrimination and hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…
And in July, more than 150 members of Congress called on Attorney General Barr to condemn the wave of anti-Asian bias.
The joint letter cited our poll that found 30 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming Asian people for the pandemic. publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…
CDC officials have warned members of President-elect Biden's team that a COVID-19 tracker used by @HHSGov isn't accurate. The tracker was created by Palantir, a data-mining firm created by Peter Thiel — a close Trump ally. (via @thedailybeast) thedailybeast.com/cdc-officials-…
We were the first to reveal details about how the platform came to be and how it is now being used. The $20 million artificial intelligence system was known as a key example of President Trump’s willingness to sideline CDC scientists. publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…
“If there’s one major lesson we have from emergencies in the last 20 years… it’s not to try to create a new system but take the most robust system you have and scale it,” said @DrTomFrieden, head of @CDCgov under President Obama. publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…
We @publicintegrity and @columbiajourn partnered with newsrooms across the country to investigate how disasters affect mental health & what people are doing about it. We heard from more than 200 survivors & mental health experts. Here’s what we found: publicintegrity.org/environment/hi…
The U.S. has faced nearly 40 natural disasters costing at least a billion dollars each in the past decade. Mental health experts say that with the pandemic, the psychological toll could be unprecedented.
Every year, FEMA’s crisis counseling program distributes an average of $24 million to send mental-health workers to help disaster-stricken communities...that’s way less than the $850 million one defense agency lost track of in a single year. publicintegrity.org/environment/hi…
Trump pushed for the V.A. to adopt the controversial anti-suicide Johnson & Johnson drug Spravato. Some vets might have been helped—but so were a lot of Trump cronies, as our @PeterACary reported ahead of this @VanityFair wrapup. vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/i…
@PeterACary reported in @guardian last June the FDA managed to approve the drug despite serious questions about its efficacy, especially among men older than 65, a group that comprises the majority of V.A. patients. publicintegrity.org/politics/trump…
@williamcohan: Trump boosted J&J drug Spravato while maintaining cozy relationships with CEO Alex Gorsky, UK ambassador + major stockholder Woody Johnson.
As the House Judiciary Committee was voting on articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, @publicintegrity received documents related to Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine. Every substantive exchange between officials was blacked out. #UkraineDocs
A lengthy email exchange between Elaine McCusker, deputy comptroller at the Defense Department and Michael Duffey, a political appointee and the associate director at OMB, and OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta was also blacked out. publicintegrity.org/national-secur…
McCusker did email Duffey to say: “the funds go into the system today to initiate transactions and obligate,” which set off more emails from Duffey and Paoletta. The e-mails carried on to the next day when McCusker suggested they hop on a call. publicintegrity.org/national-secur…
1/ Since January, @publici reporters have been diving into the personal and political finances of presidential candidates. Here's what we've found, starting with the most recent candidate first: @BetoORourkepublicintegrity.org/federal-politi…