The coronavirus spread at more than twice the national rate in U.S. counties with major meatpacking plants in the first week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing that they be reopened.

More than 700 employees at a Tyson Foods meat factory in Perry, Iowa, have tested positive for the coronavirus as the nation braces for a possible meat shortage due to the pandemic. An Iowa Department of Public Health report released Tuesday showed that 58 percent of the factory's workforce had tested positive for the virus, NBC affiliate WHO of Des Moines reported.

Thirty years of gain-of-function experiments have not delivered any significant benefits such as cures or safe vaccines, clearly showing that the risks substantially outweigh the benefits. Therefore, after evaluating the benefits versus the risks of gain-of-function experimentation, we the undersigned call for a US and global moratorium on all gain-of-function experiments. The moratorium will stay in place until the UN Secretary General calls a head-of-state-level Summit on the hazards of gain-of-function research; and recommendations are made and implemented to improve biosecurity and

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing a terrible fact of life in the United States: Inequality.

Whether you’ll be safe or in harm's way, whether you’ll get worse or recover, whether you’ll be helped or forgotten—even whether you live or die—depends to a frightening extent on whether you are male or female, white or or a person of color, young or old, a citizen or an immigrant, rich or poor.