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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Virginia’s health commissioner said he will make a coronavirus vaccine legally mandatory for all state residents when one is ready, arguing it will save lives as critics push back, demanding the right to choose for themselves. Dr. Norman Oliver, who heads up the state’s department of health, said he would require all Virginians to get the jab so long as he remains health commissioner when a […]
The fatality rate associated with COVID-19 is falling in most US states, according to an analysis by The Hill. According to the outlet, the case fatality rate of COVID-19 has been declining for weeks in most US states. In Arizona, for instance, around 5% of people who tested positive for COVID-19 by the end of May died; however, the state’s case fatality rate is currently around […]
By Rachana Pradhan and Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News As the coronavirus crisis deepened in April, Georgia officials circulated documents showing that to get through the next month, the state would need millions more masks, gowns and other supplies than it had on hand. The projections, obtained by KHN and other organizations in response to public records requests, provide one of the clearest pictures of the […]
U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block Stops Administration From Enforcing Regulation Monday’s preliminary injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn bars the administration from enforcing the regulation until the case can be heard in court and decided. https://t.co/sAWU7jLBM5 — WTVG 13abc (@13abc) August 18, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Trumps administration’s regulation that would roll back health care protections for transgender people has been […]
During COVID-19, The Risk To Health Care Workers Has Never Been Greater By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality. August 17, 2020 During COVID-19, The Risk To Health Care Workers Has Never Been Greater2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/covid-patient-in-brooklyn-ny-from-reuters-e1597685886412.jpg200px200px How’s pandemic life been going for you? If you work in America’s health care industry, that depends. That totally depends. If you happen to provide health care services to actual Covid-19 patients — as a nurse […]
The United Kingdom’s Health Secretary is reportedly seeking to replace Public Health England (PHE) amid criticisms that the organisation failed to respond effectively to the coronavirus pandemic. Government ministers are facing criticism on Sunday following reports that Health Secretary Matt Hancock is looking to scrap Public Health England (PHE) and replace it with a new pandemic response agency. Hancock is reportedly going to announce the formation […]
When Carthage College students begin returning to campus in Kenosha, Wisconsin, next week, two very non-traditional welcome back gifts will await them: a thermometer, and a scratch-and-sniff smell test card. Temperature checks as a way to quickly provide a gauge for a common symptom of the novel coronavirus aren’t exactly uncommon in the United States. But smell tests are relative newcomers to the screening scene. Both […]
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/202008151080177719-first-batch-of-covid-19-vaccine-from-gamaleya-centre-produced-russian-health-ministry-says/ Russia registered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V, earlier this week. The Russian Ministry of Health has said that Sputnik V had undergone all necessary checks and proven to be capable of building immunity against the virus. Russia has produced the first batch of the vaccine against COVID-19 developed by the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology […]
While competing for playoff positioning and advocating for social justice, the basketball players at the NBA campus bubble outside Orlando, Florida, have also been conducting an admittedly exclusive science experiment that could help improve diagnostic testing in the United States. The National Basketball Association, the National Basketball Players Association, and the Yale School of Public Health announced in June that they had partnered to study SalivaDirect, […]
The thing about being out as transgender is that everyone—and I do mean everyone—thinks they can freely express an opinion about your identity, how well you “pass” for the gender with which you identify, and even your existence. And they expect you to defend it. No, expect is the wrong word; they demand it. Case in point, Dr. Rachel Levine. She’s the pediatrician who is the […]
Over seven months after the novel coronavirus went global, the United States still isn’t testing enough people. Nor is the U.S. delivering results quickly enough to provide meaningful disease surveillance. But virologists Dave O’Connor and Chris Mason had a simple idea for loosening up the testing logjam: pack vans with $5,000 worth of testing equipment and drive them around key locations in badly-hit communities with low […]
Coronavirus Is Being Tackled By Nicaragua’s Community-Based Health System By Kevin Zeese and John Perry, Popular Resistance. August 8, 2020 Coronavirus Is Being Tackled By Nicaragua’s Community-Based Health System2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/health-care-center.-photo-world-bank-e1596923883848.jpg200px200px Above photo: Nicaraguan community health center from “Strengthening the Family and Community Health Care Model in Nicaragua,” the World Bank. Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is – like every other government – engaged in a struggle to limit the effects of […]
At first, LaMay Axton thought her 2-year-old granddaughter’s cough was simply a cold. Cambria Tate had been fighting a virus for almost three weeks, with all the typical symptoms: fever, exhaustion and chest congestion. But then something truly alarming started happening to the normally rambunctious toddler. Her limbs stopped functioning. “As she turned the corner to head into the kitchen, her little legs fell from under […]
Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost To COVID-19 By Nina Martin, ProPublica. August 3, 2020 Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost To COVID-192020-08-032020-08-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/tracking-health-care-workers-by-yann-kebbi-special-to-propublica-e1596474763862.jpg200px200px Above phto: Tracking health care workers by Yann Kebbi, special to ProPublica. Anesthesiologist Claire Rezba started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively. Researchers and industry professionals say the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous” and is putting lives in danger. […]
Reclaiming Public Health: The Communalist Healthcare Model By Justin B. Gifford, ROAR Magazine. August 3, 2020 Reclaiming Public Health: The Communalist Healthcare Model2020-08-032020-08-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ny-nurses-protest-for-patiens-over-profits-e1590761599424.jpg200px200px Above photo: New York City nurses and other hospital professionals protest dangerous working conditions and a change in sick leave policies during the Covid-19 pandemic on April 17, 2020. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. The pandemic has exposed the failures of hierarchical, profit-based healthcare […]
Jacquelyn Gill was angry. First she heard an academic she knew online had perished at the hands of the raging coronavirus pandemic. Then things got weird. “I went from thinking a Twitter friend and colleague died of COVID after being forced by her institution to teach, to doubting she had existed in the first place,” Gill, a University of Maine climate scientist, told The Daily Beast. […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro publicly bashed yet another White House public-health expert on Monday while touting an unproven anti-malarial drug, saying he took “exception” to coronavirus testing czar Brett Giroir dismissing hydroxychloroquine as an effective coronavirus treatment. Days after CNN cut short a Navarro interview after he kept repeating the racist phrase “China virus,” the network invited him on for yet another contentious segment […]
In the months before his county’s morgue neared capacity, before he started wearing his face shield and “moon suit” to answer calls in neighbors’ homes, and before his own coronavirus diagnosis got him admitted to the hospital, Coahoma County, Mississippi, coroner Scotty Meredith knew this summer was going to be the worst in his three decades on the job. On April 3, as COVID-19 deaths in […]
US President Donald Trump has long promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the ongoing coronavirus. Testing the drug for use in treating COVID-19 has, however, been blocked by international health bodies which have noted the compound’s adverse effects on patients. An official in the US government pandemic response team on Sunday affirmed that there is zero evidence that hydroxychloroquine is […]
The List is Long. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Battled Her Health Emergencies with Courage – But Where Is the Humane Democrat Telling Her to to Step Down and Focus on Her Health? Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
On Sunday we reported that the Primary Sub-Source (PSS) for the Steele dossier was Igor Danchenko – the individual behind most of the made up lies in the Steele dossier. Danchenko is the one individual those looking into the Trump – Russia collusion fraud were after – the PSS – the individual who was behind the material amount of Steele dossier lies. At least two sources […]
Nearly 3,500 Public Health Experts Signal Support for Fauci Current and Former Health Officials, Physicians, and Scientific Experts Sign Letter Denouncing White House Attacks on NIAID Director by Center for Science in the Public Interest Nearly 3,500 of the nation’s leading public health experts are speaking out against White House attacks on National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and are […]
An Israeli company specializing in rapid recognition tests says it is now working on a COVID-19 novel coronavirus test kit that provides results in 30 seconds, which could give people “the confidence to go back and act as normal.” What does the novel coronavirus smell like? One Israeli company thinks it’s figured it out. NanoScent, an Israeli tech company, told reporters on a recent tour that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/18/1079975475_0:172:3072:1900_1200x675_80_0_0_128aadb3b9f02660928d906924124e1e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007241079978010-us-must-follow-asia-europe-to-get-covid-19-baseline-to-nearly-zero-health-expert-fauci-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States needs to follow European and Asian nations and reduce its daily rate of new coronavirus cases to a few hundred, instead of easing restrictions at far higher levels, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci said on Friday. “The European and Asian countries locked down at 95 percent”, Fauci said […]
Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23 Lifestyle mag Men’s Health is clutching its pearls over podcaster Joe Rogan’s conversation with a transgender-skeptical writer – but they were fawning over his workout and diet just months ago. What changed? Not his politics. Rogan’s number-one podcast is “putting lives in danger,” freelance writer Philip Ellis shrieked in the […]
Forty percent of young LGBTQ people have considered suicide in the last year; that rises to more than half for trans and non-binary youth. That’s according to the second annual survey on LGBTQ youth mental health by The Trevor Project. The non-profit organization provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ people under the age of 25. Two years of data isn’t enough to show […]
LA County OKs Coronavirus ‘Health Councils’ To Watch Worker Safety July 23, 2020 LA County OKs Coronavirus ‘Health Councils’ To Watch Worker Safety2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/la-e1595541039715.jpg200px200px Above photo: Xochitl Cobarruvias with US Steel Workers Union demonstrates at a drive-by rally in front of the LA County Hall of Administration Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Community members held a car caravan and action calling on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors […]
Even in a time of record unemployment, some of Dan’s colleagues at an Indiana Walmart have walked off the job. They aren’t quitting over fears of catching COVID-19, he explained. They’re quitting because of customers who become abusive when asked to wear face masks. “A lot of our people have been verbally harassed to the point of breaking down and just quitting,” Dan, who like other […]
Human Solidarity And A Global Health Commons By Christian Laval, ROAR Magazine. July 17, 2020 Human Solidarity And A Global Health Commons2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/03/health-care-human-right-1024-850×567-e1521629685903.jpg200px200px To protect ourselves against this pandemic, we need to consider health as a global commons, with solidarity as public health’s first line of defense. The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of the most fundamental features of the human condition: the solidarity that exists between humans […]
After Minneapolis, Minnesota, became the nucleus of Black Lives Matter anti-racism demonstrations across the United States, many state and local authorities have looked at new measures to correct existing racial inequalities. The Minneapolis City Council determined on Friday that racism is a public health emergency, pledging increased funding and resources to “name, reverse, and repair the harm done” to people of colour in the city, the Star […]