Above Photo: Alex Proimos. “Debt is no longer just a bug in our system.” “It is one of the main products,” says Dr. Rishi Manchanda. Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated. Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. Allyson Ward and her husband loaded up credit cards, borrowed from relatives, and […]
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Above photo: A woman walks among a field of some 660,000 white flags representing the number of U.S. lives lost to COVID-19 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2021. Rod Lamkey/CNP/Sipa USA/Alamy Stock Photo. The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says. Americans spend more on health care than people in any other nation. Yet in any given year, the piecemeal nature of the American medical insurance system causes many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs. Not surprisingly, COVID-19 only exacerbated this already […]
Above Photo: Workers in Twin Cities hospitals are preparing to strike. Fight Back! News / staff. Minneapolis, Minnesota – On Tuesday May 24, over 500 mental health workers will walk off the jobs at three hospitals in the Minneapolis metro area. The striking groups include mental health coordinators and psych techs, along with other job classes that perform mental health work. All three of the groups have organized and joined SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa (SEIU HCMNIA) in the last eight months and are fighting for their first contract. They work at Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Allina Health’s […]
Above Photo: John Fedele / Getty Images. “It Tears You Apart Mentally And Physically.” Farming Is A Stressful Occupation. Black Farmers Face The Additional Burdens Of Racism, Debt And Fear Of Displacement. At 43 and 45 years old, husband and wife farmers Angie and Wenceslaus Provost, Jr., hope they live to see age 70. They don’t fear terminal illness or a farm accident that could consign them to an early grave. Instead, they fear stress could do them in. Years of trying to protect family land from encroaching banks and government agencies have worn on them, despite their love of farming. After years of mounting debt with the U.S. […]
Above Photo: Doctor David Himmelstein. A group of high profile single payer advocates now say single payer is not enough and are calling for a move toward a Veterans Administration (VA) style universal healthcare system. In an article in The Nation magazine last week, doctors David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Adam Gaffney, Don McCanne and John Geyman called for a National Health System in the United States. “We have long advocated for single-payer national health insurance,” the doctors wrote. “By eliminating private insurers and simplifying how providers are paid, single-payer would free up hundreds of billions of dollars now squandered annually […]
They can leave patients with crippling medical bills. Why are high-deductible insurance plans becoming so popular with employers? Anyone holding a high-deductible health plan understands the dynamic: When it costs more for people to access health care, they’re going to think twice before using it. It’s a system designed to hold down costs by discouraging service. But there’s something even more insidious about such plans. For lower income California families already living paycheck to paycheck, a single medical need can sink them deeper into financial peril. This type of health care keeps poor people poor. That is precisely what worries Malissa Sanchez, […]
Statement By The International Council Of Nurses (ICN), International Federation Of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA), International Physicians For The Prevention Of Nuclear War (IPPNW), World Federation Of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) And The World Medical Association (WMA). Representing physicians, nurses, public health professionals, and medical students worldwide, we speak with a united voice on the urgent need to eliminate nuclear weapons as a matter of global health and survival. Updated evidence on the catastrophic consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, the acute and growing danger of their use, and the impossibility of any effective humanitarian and health response following nuclear […]
Thousands of nurses across Stanford health care in Palo Alto are on strike, seeking pay raises, along with bonuses and mental support. Stanford, California – More than 4,000 nurses from Stanford health care are on strike in Palo Alto on Monday. Nurses from Stanford Hospital went on strike at 6:45 a.m. and nurses from Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto went to the picket line at 7 a.m. The nurses say they are serious and united as they negotiate with Stanford Hospital and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital for better pay, better staffing and more mental health support. “We are out […]
Fueled by worries about COVID-19 safety and a lack of sick days, Black workers at the two corporate giants are leading the fight for union organizing. When news broke on Friday, April 1, 2022 that Amazon workers in Staten Island, N.Y. had managed to organize the first union in the notoriously anti-union company’s 27-year history, a common refrain across social media went something like this: This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. The news was so noteworthy that the name of Christian Smalls, a 33-year-old Black former Amazon employee and the interim president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) who led the walk-out, […]
Above photo: Black Lives Matter of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, demonstrated July 28, 2020, to demand the Forsyth County Jail end its contract with WellPath. By law, people in prison have a right to get the health care they need. In the late 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court decision Estelle v Gamble set the standard for medical rights of prisoners. But prison authorities are being criminally negligent in not providing adequate health care to incarcerated people. As the jailed population ages, 40% have chronic health conditions. The cost of providing health care has skyrocketed and local, state and federal governments have contracted with for-profit […]
Health workers in major public hospitals in Haiti continue to strike over bad working conditions. Others join them to protest a hike in gang violence and kidnappings. Health workers in major public hospitals in Haiti have reasserted their intention to continue striking on 28 March, citing lack of action by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on their earlier demands. Nurses, physicians, lab workers and other health professionals at the Haitian State University Hospital and Justinien Hospital among other places, began to strike near the end of February. They intend to continue the action until demands are met. The workers are asking […]
Above Photo: Denver Police Department. After dispatching mental health teams, instead of police officers, to certain 911 emergency calls, the city of Denver is proclaiming their pilot program a huge success—and expanding it significantly. Since June 2020, the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) has deployed medical and behavioral health clinicians to respond to over 2,200 low risk calls reporting trespassing, intoxication, or mental health crises involving poverty, homelessness or addiction. In all that time, STAR teams have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue, according to their January report. In January, the City Council unanimously allocated a $1.4 million contract […]
Above Photo: Nurse Tiia Virta works in the intensive care unit of Oulu University Hospital, one of the hospitals that will go on strike as of April 1. Paulus Markkula / Yle. Worker’s unions in Finland’s social and health care services demand immediate staff recruitments and pay increase. Finland – 25,000 health care workers from six hospital districts represented by the Finnish Union of Practical Nurses (SuPer) and the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (TEHY) are all set to go on strike starting on April 1. Unions are demanding immediate staff recruitments to solve an acute staff shortage in […]
A Radical Approach To Psychedelics And Mental Health By Mike Pappas And Dimitri Mugianis, Left Voice. March 25, 2022 A Radical Approach To Psychedelics And Mental Health2022-03-252022-03-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220325-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters; iStock; Wikimedia Commons. The so-called psychedelic renaissance is here. Proponents claim that the drugs can alleviate an array of psychological suffering. But while they try to gain medical acceptance, they ignore the structural factors that cause suffering in the first place. We need a revolutionary approach to these substances as they become more mainstream. It seems that every day there is a new article or study showing how psychedelics […]
Above photo: The European Union-African Union Summit that took place on February 17-18. By showing reluctance on the patent waiver on COVID-19-related products even after the majority of its population is vaccinated, the EU leadership has once again taken the side of Big Pharma and perpetuated vaccine apartheid. As the summit between the African Union and European Union (EU-AU summit) came to a close on February 18, the EU’s dedication to ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 products remained murky. While Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, stated that the two unions had a very constructive discussion on the […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s Covid response as Vice President Kamala Harris observes on January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty Images. The Government Needs To Bring Vaccines And Information To The People Through An Ambitious Public Jobs Program, Just Like Biden Said He Would. A year after Joe Biden’s inauguration, things seem bleak. Despite the existence of life-saving vaccines, tests and masks, on January 21, more than 3,000 people were reported to have died of Covid-19, and the last time daily deaths were below 1,000 was in August. With the more transmissible Omicron variant spreading like wildfire, and only 63% of […]
Above Photo: The big business lobbying organization the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been a major proponent of corporate dominated multi-stakeholder initiatives. The People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism published new report on corporate takeover of multilateral institutions, reducing people’s chances of safeguarding essential human rights. It is no news that transnational corporations have effectively infiltrated institutions such as the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Still, according to a new report published by the People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism (PWGM), their influence has now edged towards a breaking point. The Transnational Institute (TNI), the People’s Health Movement (PHM), Public Services […]
Above Photo: Emal Ahmadi surveys the damage to his home after a U.S. drone strike killed 10 of his family members in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 2, 2021. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times). On January 13, 2017, a family including a husband, wife and three small children scurried from building to building in East Mosul, Iraq. They were seeking refuge as a battle between ISIS (also known as Daesh) and U.S.-backed forces swirled around them. The family was huddled in an abandoned school surrounded by other civilians when a U.S.-operated drone struck and destroyed the structure. The father and one […]
Above Photo: Ryuki Yamamoto (Japan), Chaos – Spin, 2019. As we enter the new year almost two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, the official death toll from COVID-19 sits just below 5.5 million people. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that there is a ‘tsunami of cases’ due to the new variants. The country with the highest death toll is the United States, where the official number of those who succumbed to the disease is now over 847,000; Brazil and India follow with nearly 620,000 and 482,000 deaths respectively. These three countries have been ravaged by […]
Above Photo: Change.org. Not Content With Trying To Gut Welfare State Programs That Benefit Millions Of Non-Veterans, These Conservatives Are Now Targeting Former Soldiers, Who Are Often Poor Or Working Class, And Similarly Dependent On Publicly Funded Services. In recent years, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have backed privatization of services provided by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the VHA serves about nine million patients and operates the largest public healthcare system in the country. Since 2015, billions of dollars have been diverted from VHA care to private doctors and for-profit hospitals who treat veterans in […]
Above Photo: Headquarters of NHS England. (Lad, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) It is safe to say that, far from being overstated, the Americanization of the NHS is very nearly complete, write Stewart Player and Bob Gill. One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the ‘Americanization’ of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, “creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients.” In fact, the penetration of the healthcare system by the giant U.S. insurer UnitedHealth reveals the […]
Above Photo: Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at the outreach program GLIDE, distributes naloxone and fentanyl detection packets to people on February 3, 2020 in San Francisco. Nick Otto for The Washington Post. “If our leaders fail to act, another year of devastating and historic overdose deaths is inevitable,” said one drug policy expert. Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released sobering statistics showing a record-breaking number of drug overdoses in the U.S. in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 260 advocacy groups called on lawmakers Tuesday to urgently pass public health proposals to mitigate the […]
Above Photo: Workers at Cascade Behavioral Health walked out in August following an attack by a patient that injured 11 staff. The National Labor Relations Board concluded this was legal—possibly the first time it has condoned a safety strike in the health care industry. SEIU 1199NW. Nurses and mental health techs at a Tukwila, Washington, facility have won their safety strike after three and a half months on the picket line. Under the settlement, management agreed to staff three security guards for the day shift and two for nights, as well as to restore fired workers to their positions. The contract, which covers […]
Above Photo: Teamsters on strike at United Metro Energy in Brooklyn, New York rally with allies August 10 to demand industry-standard wages and healthcare. (Luigi Morris). United Metro Energy Is Risking An Environmental Catastrophe In Brooklyn As Billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis Stalls Union Negotiations. New York City – A dozen oil workers rally in front of the United Metro Energy (UMEC) terminal in Brooklyn on their 113th day on strike August 10. They’re fighting one of the largest suppliers of heating oil and motor fuels in New York. The strike began months prior, on April 19. After workers spent one of the hottest summers in decades on […]
Above photo: AFGE condemns the Senate’s passage of a bill that would open the door to privatization of the country’s largest health care system. AFGE. Last week, USAToday ran a feature by reporter Jill Castellano that spotlighted issues around the VA MISSION Act, which is supposed to assure that veterans have easier access to care – outside the VA when clinically necessary. The project was blatantly biased and had Koch fingerprints all over it. We hate to give it any extra attention but must correct the record. The piece falsely accuses the VA of systematically denying veterans access to private sector […]
Above Photo: Collage of UC Global surveillance photos of Assange made for CIA inside Ecuador embassy. Photos include Assange being examined by a doctor and the “decoy Dad” arriving at embassy. Cathy Vogan. U.S. prosecutors have five times misled two British courts on key points about Julian Assange’s health as it attempts to overturn a ruling against extraditing him to the United States. The United States appeal against a British judge’s decision not to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange begins at the High Court in London on Wednesday with prosecutors for the U.S. seeking to prove Assange is faking psychological disorders and […]
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, panic buying seemed to create a shortage of different necessities, including toilet paper. Midway through the COVID-19 pandemic, housing prices started rising drastically, as demand surpassed supply due to shortages of construction materials. As students returned to in-person learning, schools found nutritious food for school lunches more difficult to get, and the U.S. relaxed requirements that schools must comply with federal nutrition standards. Visit any grocery store recently and you are likely to find shelves bare of any number of items. A global shortage of computer chips has created a drastic reduction […]
Above Photo: Striking Mercy Hospital healthcare workers (Credit: Facebook/Ginny Homewood) Roughly 2,200 nurses, aides and health care staff walked off the job Friday morning in Buffalo, New York, to fight for better wages, staffing and working conditions at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo. Workers on the picket line describe horrific conditions at the hospital. Patients’ rooms, hallways, cafeterias and even medical equipment are filthy because the hospital refuses to hire enough workers. “Very poor conditions,” Carrie Dilbert, a registered nurse, told cable news station Spectrum News. “The hospital is not kept up the way it needs to be. It’s very dirty. Very […]
Health care disparities are inevitable when notions of white superiority are guiding principles in every sector of society. The term “race norming ” ought to be immediately suspected as having a nefarious intent. Anything referred to as norming in a racist society invariably ends with Black people getting the short end of the stick. The concept that Black bodies are anatomically different may be known as “race correction”, “ethnic adjustment”, or “race adjustment” and causes Black people to be undertreated for pain, undiagnosed for serious illness, and denied life saving treatments because of an idea which is inherently white supremacist and very […]
Above Photo: Adriana Bellet I’d like you to imagine for a moment that you are the parent of a child with asthma, living in Ciudad Sandino, just outside the capital of Nicaragua, in a barrio called Nueva Vida, which was recently founded after your family – along with 1,200 other families – was flooded out of your home along the lakeshore in Managua during Hurricane Mitch. The year is 2001, and although your family now has a concrete house and the bus runs regularly down your street in the daytime, nights are filled with rival gangs throwing rocks and bottles, and regular work […]
Above Photo: Activists and global health advocates staged simultaneous protests outside the homes of the White House chief of staff and Moderna CEO, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (Leandra Bernstein/SBG) Washington — Activists gathered outside the homes of the White House chief of staff and the CEO of Moderna to demand the Biden administration and private drug companies do more to address the global vaccine shortage. “Really, we’re bringing attention to the fact that both Moderna and the U.S. government have been completely inadequate in scaling up vaccine access globally,” James Krellenstein, co-founder of the AIDS advocacy group, PrEP4All told Sinclair Broadcast […]
Public Health Council Unanimously Passes Motion Opposing Biomass Plant By Springfield Climate Justice Coalition, Popular Resistance. November 30, 2020 Public Health Council Unanimously Passes Motion Opposing Biomass Plant2020-11-302020-11-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/biomass-e1606768692886.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Rene Theberge. The Public Health Council of Springfield on Saturday, November 21, sent a letter to the chairs of the House-Senate Climate Change Conference requesting that there be no incentives written into the legislation under consideration promoting the building of biomass as a source of electricity. According to the letter signed by the Public Health Council Environmental Health Chair Dr. Jeffrey Scavron, “The Public Health Council urges you to do all you can […]
As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment By Alex J. Rouhandeh, The American Prospect. November 23, 2020 As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/unions.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of SEIU 1199 New England marched last summer to demand new laws to protect long-term caregivers and consumers, July 23, 2020, in Hartford, Connecticut. Jessica Hill/AP. Health care workers of color are twice as likely as their white co-workers to catch COVID-19. Unions could be the answer to addressing these disparities. Like many nursing homes across the country, the Genesis HealthCare center in Greenville, Rhode Island, primarily houses white residents […]
On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis November 22, 2020 On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mflowers.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Dr. Margaret Flowers about the Covid-19 pandemic and the catastrophic response to the public health crisis under America’s for-profit healthcare system. Without national coordination, or universal and free national health care, Americans are faced with uneven or absent care due to hospital closures, reductions in hospital beds and services. Lawmakers and hospital administrators compete to purchase basic supplies leading manufacturers to hike prices. The mercenary nature of the for-profit health care system also means many Americans are distrustful of […]
Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform By John Geyman, Counterpunch. November 20, 2020 Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/cp-e1605884502823.jpg200px200px Above photo: Anthony Quintano. Today we face the COVID-19 pandemic, with its resultant economic downturn and systemic racism—the triple crises that have exposed the serious problems of U. S. health care. It is now obvious to most observers that the system is broken, raising the question of how it can be put together through the political process after a hotly contested election season filled with disinformation and confusion about potential reform alternatives. […]
New Report: ‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’ By the Institute for Policy Studies. November 18, 2020 New Report: ‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/ips-e1605708514111.png200px200px Essential Workers Continue to Suffer as US Billionaires Gain Almost $1 Trillion Under Pandemic. A “Delinquent Dozen” Pandemic Profiteers, Including Owners of Walmart, and CEOs of Amazon and Target, Failed Essential Workers and Forced Them to Risk Their Health, While Still Profiting Immensely. Washington, DC – Essential workers went underpaid, unsupported and forced to risk their health at corporations owned or operated by billionaires, even as the total wealth of America’s billionaires rose by more than $1 trillion […]
Health Care For Millions On The Line By Hajira Hasghar, Liberation News. November 14, 2020 Health Care For Millions On The Line2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/healthcare-e1605367274411.jpg200px200px Above photo: People show support for the Affordable Care Act in a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Nov. 10. CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn. Ultra-right Supreme Court hears challenge to ACA. Oral arguments began in the case California v. Texas this week, just days after the confirmation of Trump-appointed justice Amy Coney Barrett. For the third time in the past 10 years, Republicans have launched yet another legal attack at the Supreme Court in an attempt to eliminate healthcare coverage […]
More Than 14 Million May Have Lost Health Coverage By Samantha Liss, Health Care Dive. November 10, 2020 More Than 14 Million May Have Lost Health Coverage2020-11-102020-11-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/target.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Target. As many as 7.7 million U.S. workers with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage lost their jobs by June as the fallout from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus — and the country’s inability to contain it — dramatically slowed the economy, according to the latest analysis from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. About 6.9 million dependents also were covered by the employer-sponsored insurance held by those […]
Health Justice And Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis By Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report. October 18, 2020 Health Justice And Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis2020-10-182020-10-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/davis_845x400.jpeg200px200px We can disentangle care from capitalism by increasing community-generated and community-led models of caring. “State violence radically and derogatorily compromise the health and well- being of pregnant, laboring, and post-partum people and families.” In this feature, we ask organizers and academics to reflect on the connections between health justice and Black liberation. This week’s contributor is Dána-Ain Davis . Dr. Davis is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College. Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent: Can you please tell readers […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/102053/05/1020530503_0:225:5364:3242_1200x675_80_0_0_e309ee1f34ae6f787e65c04bf7a3357c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010171080804386-ny-health-officials-shutdown-giant-10000-person-wedding-amid-covid-19/ Health officials in New York City announced the ban a few days before the planned wedding, which is expected to draw 10,000 guests in Brooklyn, New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Ducker signed a Section 16 order banning a wedding scheduled for Monday in Williamsburg, which violates restrictions on meetings. Although the wedding venue was planned to take place outside the red, orange, and yellow zones of the COVID-19 cluster under close supervision by city and state officials, the estimated size of the event prompted action by […]
France to Being Nighttime Curfew France declares public health state of emergency over COVID-19 https://t.co/4y85IHOVXd pic.twitter.com/VPTqM2fNMq — Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) October 14, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: A night curfew, 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. is going into place for the people of France. The original French state of emergency was lifted in mid July due to decreased cases of COVID-19, but as is the case in the U.S. coronavirus cases have increased exponentially. Those of you who protest mask wearing, physical distancing, common sense medical efforts to avoid contracting and spreading COVID-19, have any of you been made to stay in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/15/1080528464_0:45:3073:1773_1200x675_80_0_0_7445effd01dcf62ef7c466ffac9c3e22.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202010151080779256-russia-can-register-third-covid-19-vaccine-in-one-month-public-health-watchdog-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia can register its third vaccine against the coronavirus in a month, Anna Popova, the head of the national public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Thursday. “I want to say that the Russian Federation has two vaccines, and I’m sure that the third vaccine will be registered in a month”, Popova told the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The statement was published after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced the registration of the second vaccine against the coronavirus, developed by the Vector centre. Phase 2 trials of the third […]
Amid the pandemic, Americans are experiencing sleeplessness, headaches, stomach upset and more symptoms of chronic stress. Robin Utrecht/LightRocket via Gett hide caption toggle caption Robin Utrecht/LightRocket via Gett Amid the pandemic, Americans are experiencing sleeplessness, headaches, stomach upset and more symptoms of chronic stress. Robin Utrecht/LightRocket via Gett In late March, shortly after New York state closed nonessential businesses and asked people to stay home, Ashley Laderer began waking each morning with a throbbing headache. “The pressure was so intense it felt like my head was going to explode,” recalls the 27-year-old freelance writer from Long Island. She tried spending less […]
Joe Biden’s son-in-law is advising his presidential campaign on Covid-19 response while overseeing investments in health-care startups, a potential conflict of interest, Politico reported – to the chagrin of its leftist readers. Howard Krein, who married Ashley Biden in 2012, has been advising her father’s campaign on Covid-response policies while at the same time leading investment firm StartUp Health in staking fledgling companies with products or services designed to mitigate, manage or treat the virus, Politico said Tuesday. Krein is chief medical officer at StartUp Health, which announced plans in April to invest $1 million across 10 companies focused on Covid-19 solutions […]
Health Justice And Black Liberation: Shay-Akil McLean By Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report. October 13, 2020 Health Justice And Black Liberation: Shay-Akil McLean2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/mclean_845x400.jpeg200px200px Black health is directly connected to the displacement and dispossession of our ancestors and the conditions of our neighborhoods. “State violence differentially distributes morbidity and mortality to those that are deemed enemies of the state.” In this feature, we ask organizers and academics to reflect on the connections between health justice and Black liberation. This week’s contributor is Shay-Akil McLean . McLean is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Integrative Biology’s Program […]
Israel’s Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center revealed Monday that vitamin D deficiency might be linked to an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. According to the center’s report, published Monday and reviewed by the Jerusalem Post, research studies have shown a circumstantial link between vitamin D levels and the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus. Despite the lack of a known causal relationship between the vitamin and COVID-19 risk, the center still recommends that people take vitamin D supplements. Following the publication of its report, the Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center launched a communications campaign to inform the public about […]
It is not surprising for White House hopefuls to get scrutinized by media and the public ahead of presidential vote regardless of the party affiliations. Some candidates, however, had been forced to repel much more serious attacks that put under question their “fitness” for the office. Speaking from the White House balcony, US President Donald Trump revealed during his first public address since returning from Walter Reed Medical Center after being diagnosed with COVID-19 that he is now “feeling great,” indicating his readiness to resume campaign events and rallies. However, Trump’s treatment has excited much speculation, prompted by the fact that he […]
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wanted to have US troops in Afghanistan home by Christmas, after 19 years of combat in the Middle East. The assertion reportedly caught many military and civil officials by surprise and is seen by some Democrats as a way for Trump to gain additional points prior to the 3 November election. Leaders of the Afghan militant group, the Taliban, said on Saturday that they hoped US President Donald Trump would beat Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in the US general election in November. “We hope he will win the election and wind up [the] US […]
As coronavirus cases begin to reascend in the United Kingdom following the release of lockdown restrictions, areas in the country worst affected are beginning to introduce localised rules to bring cases back down. A public health official in Newcastle flouted government scientists on Friday and demanded pubs and restaurants remain open despite coronavirus cases in the city being among the worst in the UK. Professor Eugene Milne, public health director for the city, has opposed plans by local officials to close hospitality and leisure venues next week to reduce Covid-19 infection rates and described the measures as counter-productive. He said that […]
US President Donald Trump said he plans to catch up on his campaign schedule, disrupted by his Covid-19 diagnosis last week, and could hold a rally as soon as Saturday. Trump said he is likely to take a test on Friday. “I think I’m going to try doing a rally on Saturday night if we have enough time to put it together, but we want to do a rally… possible in Florida on Saturday night. I might come back and do one in Pennsylvania the following night,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview on Thursday night. Also on […]
The UK has recorded 17,540 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. The new figure is an increase of 3,300 above those reported on Wednesday, and smashes the country’s previous record for cases registered in a single day. A further 77 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were also reported by UK health officials on Thursday. The latest data means that a total of 561,815 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK since the start of the pandemic, and 42,592 have died within 28 days of a test. The alarming numbers come just days after […]
White House physician Sean Conley (center) arrives to answer questions surrounded by other doctors for an update on President Trump’s health on Monday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images White House physician Sean Conley (center) arrives to answer questions surrounded by other doctors for an update on President Trump’s health on Monday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump’s medical team once again held a briefing outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday for an update on the president’s COVID-19 treatment. The doctors said that the president is doing well and […]
President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday in Bethesda, Md. He is staying at the hospital while receiving treatment for the coronavirus. Alex Edelman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Edelman/Getty Images President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday in Bethesda, Md. He is staying at the hospital while receiving treatment for the coronavirus. Alex Edelman/Getty Images No sooner had it become known that President Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus than controversy arose over the amount and detail and truthfulness of the information about his […]
India’s principal opposition party, Congress, has been attacking the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on multiple fronts. From organising protests against the gruesome murder of a lower-caste girl in BJP-governed Uttar Pradesh, to opposing farm laws, the sale of state firms, and the economic slowdown, the party has severely upped the ante. Congress Party politician P Chidambaram, who was also India’s former finance minister, has hit out at the Indian Finance Ministry for donning the role of the Health Ministry in making predictions about the pandemic curve. Questioning why the Finance Ministry is making predictions on COVID-19, which should be the job […]
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock said the UK government is “working as hard as we can” to get a Covid-19 vaccine ready, and he confirmed the military would be involved in “making the rollout happen.” Speaking at a virtual Conservative Party conference about the pandemic, Hancock said the “armed services” and the contact-tracing app NHS will both be implemented in deciding how to distribute a potential vaccine “according to clinical need.” “We have set out the order in which people will get it, we have set that out in draft pending the final clinical data,” he […]
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows holds the door for White House physician Dr. Sean Conley (center) and other members of the president’s medical team ahead of a briefing for reporters on Sunday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House chief of staff Mark Meadows holds the door for White House physician Dr. Sean Conley (center) and other members of the president’s medical team ahead of a briefing for reporters on Sunday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump’s medical team held a briefing with reporters at Walter Reed National Military […]
Health Justice And Black Liberation: Ugo Edu By Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report. October 4, 2020 Health Justice And Black Liberation: Ugo Edu2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/edu-845×400-1.jpeg200px200px State violence directly impacts communities’ and individual’s ability to feel well, safe, dignified, respected, and valued. “Black liberation is tied to environmental justice.” In this feature, we ask organizers and academics to reflect on the connections between health justice and Black liberation. This week’s contributor is Ugo Edu. Dr. Edu is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA. She is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, black feminism, and science, technology, […]
White House physician Sean Conley says that President Trump was doing “very well” and that the symptoms he had are resolving and improving. Source link
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of President Donald Trump Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House physician Dr. Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of President Donald Trump Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Eds note: President Trump’s doctors gave a briefing Saturday morning outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. In a statement later, Dr. Sean Conley said he misspoke during his news conference. He […]
President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking Wednesday at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport in Minnesota. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking Wednesday at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport in Minnesota. Alex Brandon/AP Updated at 7 p.m. ET Public health officials in the cities and states that President Trump visited in recent days are working to contact those who were in close proximity to him, first lady Melania Trump and others who traveled with him. Since he has tested positive for the coronavirus, health […]
Joe Biden has worried both his supporters and critics after having prolonged coughing fits while giving speeches in Pennsylvania. The concerns over his health were reignited after Trump tested positive for Covid-19. While doing a small interstate campaign tour on Wednesday, the 77-year-old politician was filmed frequently coughing to the point of sometimes having to clear his throat before continuing speaking. Biden appeared to have put some Americans on the alert, as both his supporters and Donald Trump’s began obsessing over the footage and speculating on the candidate’s health. Some immediately went with the worst-case scenario, calling Biden “Covid Joe.” Others […]
COVID-19 Cases Among Health Care Workers Under-Reported By Kristian Hernandez, Fort Worth Star Telegram. October 1, 2020 COVID-19 Cases Among Health Care Workers Under-Reported2020-10-012020-10-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/0407-testing02.jpg200px200px Above photo: A nurse administers a COVID-19 test at a drive-through testing site in Burleson in April. A new study found that health care workers have almost twice as many cases than reported by the CDC. Amanda McCoy/Star Telegram. Fiana Tulip spent the last 10 weeks trying to figure out how her mother, a health care worker in Dallas, contracted and died of COVID-19. Isabelle Papadimitriou, 64, was a respiratory therapist at the Baylor Scott & White Institute for […]
Olivia Troye, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s top coronavirus advisor at the time, participates in a coronavirus disease briefing event with the Vice President at 3M’s company headquarters in Maplewood, Minn. in March. Jeff Mason/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Jeff Mason/Reuters Olivia Troye, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s top coronavirus advisor at the time, participates in a coronavirus disease briefing event with the Vice President at 3M’s company headquarters in Maplewood, Minn. in March. Jeff Mason/Reuters President Trump has consistently told Americans “the complete opposite” of what his health experts have been telling him in private meetings about COVID-19, according to […]
Heavenly Pettigrew, left, and her parents Stephanie and Robert outside their two-bedroom rental apartment in Milwaukee. Without assistance from the nonprofit Community Advocates, the family likely would have faced eviction after the pandemic forced Robert and Heavenly out of their steady jobs. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch hide caption toggle caption Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch Heavenly Pettigrew, left, and her parents Stephanie and Robert outside their two-bedroom rental apartment in Milwaukee. Without assistance from the nonprofit Community Advocates, the family likely would have faced eviction after the pandemic forced Robert and Heavenly out of their steady jobs. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch In August, Robert Pettigrew […]
Seven months ago, as most Americans began self-isolating to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many wondered what will this do to our mental health. Experts warned of psychological fallout; reports told of an increase in anxiety and depressive disorders. Social distancing restrictions have eased since then, or evaporated altogether. But the pandemic still rages, protesters take to the street most every night in major cities, and Americans’ fears about the integrity of the impending election continue to swell. We feel unsafe, adrift, and burned out. People want to know: Will we be OK? Surely Dr. Joshua A. Gordon, director of […]
Let’s Talk About Racism And Health By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. September 26, 2020 Let’s Talk About Racism And Health2020-09-262020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/racismhealth-e1601060861975.jpg200px200px The current uprising across the nation is a take-off moment for systemic racism in the United States. A take-off moment occurs when awareness about a crisis reaches a level of public consciousness where an event (in this case, the recent high-profile police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd) sparks protests across the country. Racist police violence has now become part of the national dialog, as has systemic racism, which is a much bigger topic than policing. A national movement to […]
Young adults aged 20 to 29 accounted for around 20% of all confirmed COVID-19 novel coronavirus cases recorded in the US between June and August, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the CDC on Wednesday revealed that younger adults in their 20s saw a surge in positive novel coronavirus tests among their ranks during the summer months. Experts explained that while the risk of fatality is lower in young adults, those carrying the contagious disease “likely contributed to community transmission of COVID-19.” “Younger individuals, […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a public service warning over the “Benadryl Challenge,” a deadly TikTok trend that encourages impressionable netizens to get high and hallucinate on a deadly dose of allergy pills. The federal agency warned in its Thursday release that exceeding the recommended dosage of Benadryl, an over-the-counter (OTC) brand name for diphenhydramine, can trigger heart complications, seizures and/or coma. Abusing Benadryl can also lead to death, as exhibited by a 15-year-old Oklahoma girl who overdosed on the OTC drug and died on August 21. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, outlet KFOR said the teen’s death may […]
An Ohio woman has been charged with trespassing and may face additional charges after she resisted arrest and refused to adhere to a school’s mandatory mask policy during her son’s middle school football game earlier this week. Facebook user Tiffany Lynn Kennedy argued in a Wednesday social media post that Logan Police Department (LPD) officers exhibited “police brutality at its finest” on Wednesday by immobilizing a woman with a stun gun and forcibly removing her from the Logan High School Stadium in Logan, Ohio. The LPD detailed in a Thursday news release that the bare-faced woman, identified as Marietta, Ohio, resident […]
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A government chemist in Hawaii cooked up batches of LSD for active-duty members of the U.S. military who responded to ads for the powerful hallucinogen posted on social media, prosecutors allege. Trevor Keegan, an “extract tech” in the Disease Outbreak Control Division of the state Health Department, was charged earlier this month on one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. His alleged co-conspirator, Austin White, is not known to be affiliated with any government agency. He is facing the same charges as Keegan. The case came to the attention of investigators last September, when a confidential informant tipped off the […]
On March 9, nine days after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York City, I walked into a meeting not knowing that several attendees had been at a conference that would later be identified as a super-spreader event. I was being extra careful to wash my hands and not touch my face; little did I know that the insidious virus, harmful we were told mostly to the elderly and immunocompromised, was lurking in the air we were breathing. Everyone at the meeting was infected with the coronavirus, and one died of it two weeks later. I had what […]
LONDON (Sputnik) – UK Health Minister Matt Hancock urged people on Sunday to follow social distancing restrictions to avoid another national lockdown, as the United Kingdom is on the brink of a second wave of COVID-19. “If people break the rules, then we are more likely to end up with national measures,” Hancock told the BBC broadcaster. After stressing that “it is absolutely critical that at this moment that everybody stops, takes a step back and realizes we all got a part to do,” the health minister said that he does not want to see another national lockdown like the one […]
New Report: Private Health Insurers Overpay Hospitals September 19, 2020 New Report: Private Health Insurers Overpay Hospitals2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/healthcare-e1600521786693.jpg200px200px NOTE: Many studies by both progressive and conservative groups have found that national improved Medicare for all (NIMA) would decrease healthcare costs in the United States while covering everyone. This is commonsense when one understands that the United States spends twice as much per person per year on healthcare as other wealthy nations that provide universal care and that privatization of our healthcare system means increasing profits for corporations is the bottom line. Here is another study from the RAND Corporation that bolsters the […]
On Thursday UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the country continued to see a concerning rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, as he announced new coronavirus restrictions on entertainment venues in England’s north-east. Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to respond to a barrage of questions regarding the possibility of a second nation-wide lockdown in the country, reported Sky News. As the minister acknowledged on Friday that there had been a steady rise in new coronavirus cases registered across the country, with hospital admissions doubling every eight days, he claimed that a lockdown was a last resort. He […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/09/1080405603_0:76:3064:1800_1200x675_80_0_0_f97e548769b3a6a553491898ac27db8f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202009121080439810-russian-health-minister-says-countrys-regions-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine-by-monday/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The first small batches of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus were sent to all regions on the country, and they are expected to arrive before Monday, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Saturday. “The first batches of the vaccine to test the supply chain have already been sent .. to all regions … The first vaccine samples will be delivered by Monday,” Murashko told reporters during a working visit in the Leningrad region. The Sputnik V vaccine was developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian […]
The number of COVID-19 cases in India is consistently rising, despite the enforcement of one of the strictest and most prolonged lockdowns on the planet. India has now topped Brazil with at least 4,562,414 cases. The US remains in the lead, however, with the highest number of infections: 6,589,020. India has seen a record surge in cases in the past several days, with a daily caseload expected to top 100,000. Community health experts have expressed concern over the surging cases and seek effective measures to slow the spread of the deadly disease. Sputnik talked to Professor K. Srinath Reddy, president of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202009121080435981-russia-asks-us-not-to-relocate-yaroshenko-given-health-concerns-ambassador-antonov-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Russian Embassy in the United States has asked the State Department not to transfer Russian national Konstantin Yaroshenko to another detention facility due to health concerns, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said in a statement. “The Embassy is not aware of the name, type and regime of the prison to which our compatriot is planned to be transferred,” Antonov said in the statement on Friday. “Taking into account the pre-existing conditions that Konstantin Yaroshenko has, we believe that changing the place of serving his sentence may negatively affect his physical and mental […]
LA County’s public health chief has come under fire after saying that local schools would not reopen until after the 2020 presidential election, prompting criticism that officials are putting politics ahead of science. The county’s health director, Barbara Ferrer, recently told local educators that schools would remain shuttered until the beginning of November, repeatedly referring to the upcoming election, according to leaked audio obtained by LA radio station KFI AM 60. “We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November,” Ferrer said on […]
President Donald Trump’s advisers warned him as early as late January that the coronavirus pandemic, then taking root in China, could cost countless lives in America. Despite this stark warning, revealed by Bob Woodward in his new book Rage and first reported by CNN, Trump downplayed the pandemic—the exact opposite of what any responsible leader should do, experts told The Daily Beast. As a result, tens of thousands of Americans have died unnecessarily, the same experts said. “This will be case study for decades to come in schools of health for how things can go wrong,” Anthony Alberg, a University of […]
Donald Trump has publicly challenged his Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden to take cognitive ability test on numerous occasions, following several slips-of-the-tongue made by the ex-vice president throughout his election campaign. But it’s Russia which has now been apparently blamed for making “allegations” about Biden’s mental health. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released an intelligence bulletin warning about Russia’s alleged efforts to spread “unsubstantiated allegations” about the state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s mental health, ABC News reported citing a copy of the document in question. According to the ABC News earlier report, the DHS came […]
In the fall of 2018, I returned to my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to help fix a broken health department. Among other scandals, the agency had failed to follow through on monitoring for possible lead poisoning among local children. As the only Black woman health officer in the state, the luster of being in the role wore off rather quickly. Mostly, I found myself praying that things wouldn’t get any worse. Fast forward to late 2019. We were paying attention to Wuhan, China. But just like other emerging deadly diseases like Ebola and SARS, we suspected COVID-19 was something that couldn’t […]
Experts generally agree it will be a heavy lift for the pharmaceutical industry to develop and fully test a safe novel coronavirus vaccine before the end of the year—to say nothing of developing and testing one before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3. But even if, by some miracle of science, a safe and effective vaccine were ready in the next couple of months, many Americans might not be able to get their hands on it. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. Source link
A longtime employee of the Iowa Department of Public Health claims she was forced to resign after responding to routine public records requests about the coronavirus pandemic. In a press conference Thursday after she filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit, former IDPH spokesperson Polly Carver-Kimm claimed the governor’s office chose to use information from her department “in the way that would best serve the governor’s agenda and needs.” “I don’t want to say the public’s health is in danger because of this,” said Carver-Kimm, who worked for the department for more than a decade before being ousted in July. “I just feel […]
ANKARA (Sputnik) – The Turkish authorities may soon issue a permit for trials of Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection, the country’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, said on Wednesday. “We have received a request to test a vaccine being developed in Russia. In the near future, I think, a permit will be issued for this. In addition, two domestic vaccines are currently being tested in the country,” Koca told reporters. He added that such tests were carried out in Turkey on volunteers exclusively. The Russian vaccine, which was registered on 11 August, was tested on 76 volunteers separately at two institutions — […]
Health Insurance And The COVID-19 shock By Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer, EPI. August 30, 2020 Health Insurance And The COVID-19 shock2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/09/healthcare-for-people-150×78.jpg200px200px Because the large majority of nonelderly U.S. households rely on employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) to pay for health care, any economic shock that destroys jobs also destroys access to health coverage. The COVID-19 crisis is one such shock, causing a near-total shutdown of huge swaths of the U.S. economy in March and April. While there was a large bounce back in job growth in May and June and, to a lesser extent, in July, the overall level of employment remains historically depressed relative […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, testified before Congress in June on the status of the pandemic. Fauci is just one of the public health leaders and their families across the U.S. who have received death threats and harassment since the pandemic began. Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, testified before Congress in June on […]
With the planet still deep in the throes of a horrific pandemic, the development is not exactly a welcome one: There is growing evidence that you can catch the novel coronavirus more than once. In recent weeks, a small number of people in the United States, Europe, and China appear to have caught COVID-19 again after recovering from the disease a previous time. The prospect of reinfection has implications for immune response, herd immunity, and vaccine strategy. But conversations with public-health and immunization experts suggest these high-profile cases of reinfection may actually be encouraging—even if they also raise some spooky red […]
US President Donald Trump has faced both mockery and concern over his stumbles on ramps and stairs, and now social media has posted video of Trump slurring his speech and failing to keep his balance while walking. A new Twitter hashtag, #TrumpIsNotWell, is trending on Saturday after social media users raised concern over the president’s health. Increased questions came to light with a viral video showing Trump’s recent appearance in New Hampshire, in which he lost his balance briefly while walking up to the stage. The scare was short-lived, however, as Trump managed to get himself together and was able to play […]
The new research may reassure worried parents but also anger education unions who have raised concerns over all pupils returning to school. Only six British children have died of Covid-19 and all had ‘profound’ pre-existing health problems, new research has shown. The lead author of the study published in the British Medical Journal said it should reassure parents anxious about their children returning to school next month amid the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. “They should be confident that their children are not going to be put at direct harm by going back to school,” said the University of Liverpool’s Professor Calum Semple. “We […]
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Ben Luján Addresses Navajo Nation Council, Discusses Need For Further COVID-19 Relief In Tribal Communities First published 21 August 2020, Los Alamos Daily Post More than 9,000 individuals living in the Navajo Nation have been infected with COVID-19, and more than 400 lost their lives. U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) has called out the Trump administration for failing to share crucial health data with Tribal health authorities and awarding a $3 million contract to a former Trump White House official who delivered substandard personal protective equipment to the Indian Health Service. Luján delivered a report to the Navajo Nation […]
How crypto-powered Airtm is teaming with Venezuela’s opposition government to distribute $18 million in funds the U.S. seized from the Maduro dictatorship, featuring Airtm CEO Ruben Galindo. Our main conversation is with Ruben Galindo, CEO and co-founder of Airtm. Airtm is a global dollar account that lets users anywhere access U.S. dollars, powered by cryptocurrency infrastructure and a P2P network. The company is currently working with Juan Guaido’s opposition government in Venezeula to attempt to distribute $18 million in funds the U.S. seized from the Maduro dictatorship. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: Source link
Drug development is a long, costly process. In non-pandemic periods, a new pharmaceutical product could gobble up a billion dollars and a decade from start to finish. So as thousands of people per week die of COVID-19 in the United States, researchers are scrambling to make headway via their only shot at speeding up the process: finding a drug that already exists. The problem is that even if they limit themselves to testing only those drugs that have already been approved by the FDA, researchers still have 20,000 drug possibilities to sort through. That’s where AI comes in. Welcome to Rabbit […]
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent three nights in intensive care in April, after being initially diagnosed with COVID-19 on 27 March, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab standing in to deputise in his absence. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson may resign from office in six months time due to lingering health issues after he succumbed to the coronavirus respiratory disease in March, according to the father-in-law of his closest aide, Dominic Cummings, reports The Times. In a conversation that reportedly took place last week between journalist Anna Silverman and Sir Humphrey Wakefield, father of Cummings’ wife Mary, […]
President Trump was expected to use a press conference on Sunday to announce emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for convalescent blood plasma to treat COVID-19, according to media reports. The treatment, which hinges on injecting antibodies from COVID-19 survivors into other patients to boost their body’s defenses against the virus, has been used on at least 97,000 patients. So far, though, the plasma treatment has only produced middling data to support its efficacy. The expected announcement would come just days after the FDA reportedly pulled back from issuing the same authorization over concerns from Dr. Anthony Fauci […]
Feeling isolated, anxious, or depressed since the pandemic hit? Struggling to cope with uncertainty? Homebound with your entire family and going berserk from too much chaos and no privacy? If you’ve felt any of these things in the past six months, experts say you might be a dog. Indeed, dogs are feeling the emotional impacts of coronavirus just like their owners are, and it may be changing the way they act. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. For example, research published in The Journal of Pediatrics […]
BROOKS, CA—By Friday evening, northern California’s LNU Lightning Complex fire had become the second-largest wildfire in state history, killing at least five people, destroying 500 structures, and forcing evacuations in two cities and an Air Force base. It was just 15 percent contained. But up in rural Capay Valley, as the historic blaze crept within two miles of Cache Creek Casino Resort and the sun blazed orange behind blooms of smoke, hundreds of gamblers shirked both fire and the coronavirus pandemic to enjoy a night working the slots and trying their luck at the tables. “These fires are going to continue […]
Dr. Dinora Chinchilla is finally taking a month off after working seven consecutive months. Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi Dr. Dinora Chinchilla is finally taking a month off after working seven consecutive months. Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi After five months working shifts at an emergency department in Oakland, Douglas Frey says he’s mentally and physically spent. Most days the tall, athletic-looking 47-year-old nurse ends his shift depleted by what he calls an undercurrent of tension. Every day Frey worries he’ll make a mistake — picking up a contaminated mask, perhaps — and bring the […]