Covid-19

Each year when school starts a renewed conversation begins over the sexism of dress codes that girls must comply with because schools think it's a female's responsibility not to "distract" a male student. Racist principals and teachers end up suspended when they flip out over a Black girl's hair being natural or a Black boy's hair having a design shaved into it. But somehow, a mask mandate is too much for schools to handle.

Where is Betsy DeVos? The Education Secretary is under fire for demanding schools reopen while not giving them the assistance they need to protect students, teachers, administrators, and staff, yet she is working remotely from her "sprawling" 22,000 square foot "waterfront estate with a round-the-clock security detail paid for by taxpayers," NBC News reports. That security cost taxpayers $25 million over the past year.

Despite a judge's restraining order, a California church held an indoor worship service and filled its 440-capacity church with people, most of whom were not wearing masks.

A 21-year-old Florida man thought he had recovered from a mild case of COVID-19, and then he wound up in the hospital as his organs began shutting down.

President Donald Trump wants to know how many times he was "unmasked" while he was a candidate for the Oval Office. That would mean he appears to know now he was talking to foreign individuals who were being monitored - and some would likely want to know who and why.

Just seven weeks after bringing its first coronavirus wave under control, experts say Spain is once again in a "critical" situation with the worst infection rate in Western Europe.

President Donald Trump circumvented Congress by signing executive orders that offered a limited extension of enhanced unemployment benefits -- but that may not be enough for some vulnerable incumbent Republicans who are in tough re-election battles.

A newly minted South Dakota teacher is looking forward to starting her job, but she's "terrified" by inconsistent messaging from her state's Republican governor.

Ashley Hall, who works as a security guard in San Mateo, California, was the target end of a racist rant and sexual innuendos after she asked a man to wear a mask.

Idaho lawmakers are moving to strip the authority of public health districts to close schools in emergencies or require masks for safety reasons.

On Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that hundreds of students and teachers in the Cherokee County, Georgia school system are now under quarantine for COVID-19 exposure less than a week after the schools reopened.

The news coverage on COVID-19 is pervasive, persistent, and in my view as a professor of psychiatry, perilous. Sometimes it seems as though the pandemic is all we talk about.