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Meanwhile, if you like me need to catch up on the amazing stuff my colleagues have produced in recent weeks, a thread. Beginning with how OF COURSE McKinsey is making bank off insecure governments struggling with their COVID response efforts, by @i_m_m: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-is-making-100-million-and-counting-advising-on-the-governments-bumbling-coronavirus-response https://twitter.com/lydiadepillis/status/1287411348079546369
Utah was supposed to have been one of the smarter states at the outset of the pandemic. But as @lisalsong and Mollie Simon report with internal emails, business and political interests pushed the state into a premature reopening, and now cases are rising: https://www.propublica.org/article/politicians-and-business-interests-pushed-health-officials-aside-to-control-reopening-then-cases-exploded
The Election Assistance Commission was set up to help states do things like vote by mail, which would've been quite useful around now. But it's been gutted and distracted by nearly non-existent voter fraud from the beginning, @JessicaHuseman reports: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-voter-fraud-hysteria-and-partisan-bickering-ate-american-election-oversight
American needs every doctor it can get as it battles an ever-growing pandemic. But @DLind found that Trump's H1-B visa shutdown has locked an indeterminate but significant number of incoming foreign medical residents out of the country: https://www.propublica.org/article/hospitals-are-suddenly-short-of-young-doctors-because-of-trumps-visa-ban
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an under-the-radar federal regulator with many important jobs, has egregiously failed to enforce fair lending laws, ignoring redlining investigations by its *own staff.* Great partnership with @Capitol_Forum https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-financial-regulator-quietly-shelved-discrimination-probes-into-bank-of-america-and-other-lenders?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
@yjtorbati depicts the shitshow underway as the U.S. tries to become "the King of ventilators," as Trump puts it -- USAID is replicating the worst flaws of foreign assistance, sending medical equipment to countries that don't need it and/or can't use it. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-is-donating-ventilators-to-countries-that-dont-need-or-cant-use-them
Private equity-owned in-flight caterers like Gate Gourmet piggybacked on the airline bailout, which was supposed to save jobs. Because of a timing-related loophole, they laid off thousands of people anyway, @JustinElliott and @JeffErnsthausen found: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-airline-bailout-loophole-companies-laid-off-workers-then-got-money-meant-to-prevent-layoffs
