2020-02-03: Social Media Postees

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With Medicare for All on the Table, Iowans Are Caucusing for Their Lives
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-03
Democrats in Iowa are voting for their lives as they gather for the presidential caucuses today. Besides beating President Trump, polling shows that health care is the top issue among likely caucus-goers. The vision of a Medicare for All system that provides health insurance to everyone has energized activists and the party's progressive base…
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UK funding to boost vaccine search as coronavirus death toll rises
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-03
Infectious disease experts will use £20 million of UK government funding to embark on an ambitious six-month plan to produce a coronavirus vaccine.Health secretary Matt Hancock on Monday said the government would plough fresh money into developing a vaccine to combat the deadly global disease.The news came as the death toll in China from the disease rose to 361, with one more fatality having been recorded in the Philippines.A further 2,829 new cases were confirmed by Chinese health authorities in the 24 hours to Monday morning, taking the total number of cases in the country to 17,205.Most cases have been r…
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The Health Impacts of Cell Phone Radiation in America
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
NTP scientists have decided to follow the science. | In a recent revision to the information it offers the public on cell phone radiation, the National Toxicology Program ( NTP) revealed that its scientists are now taking precautions by spending …
globalresearch.ca/ntp-scientists-endorse-precaution-first-federal-officials-take-stand-cell-phone-safety/5702642

Bernie Sanders Is the Only Candidate Who Can Save America
Juan Cole | truthdig.com | 2020-02-03
This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment. | Generations of orators have told the story that if you put a frog in a pan of steaming water it will immediately jump out, but if you put it in a pan of cold water and gradually heat it, it will be lulled and end up boiled to death. The story is not true of healthy frogs, who will in fact jump out of the pan as the water heats. But it appears to be true of human beings. | Human beings are being gradually being boiled, and they aren't bothering to jump out of the pan. | Related Arti…
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How to Help Someone With a Disability: Listen to Them
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
I'm 39. I have lived most of my life with a disability. I'm not sure when it truly started

This Planet is Dying. Pay Attention!
Martha Stilson | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
It is a very short sited look at the world that wastes our grandchildren's resources for health and life. Clean air, clean water and good soil are vital to sustain life. It is simply laziness and greed that bring us to this point.
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Hong Kong shuts down more border crossings with mainland China amid coronavirus fear, medics strike
rt.com | 2020-02-03
The government of Hong Kong has further restricted travel from mainland China amid public fears about the coronavirus epidemic. City leader Carrie Lam denies caving in to pressure from medics, who started a strike on Monday. | Hong Kong health workers started a five-day strike on Monday, demanding a full closure of the border to prevent infected people from reaching the city. Lam stopped short of meeting their demands in full, and denies that the measures she announced on Monday were due to the pressure. | "If anyone thinks that by resorting to such extreme measures the government will be made to do something…
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Trump's Medicaid Block Grant Plan May Impact Millions of Low-Income People
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-03
The Trump administration unveiled a plan Thursday that would dramatically revamp Medicaid by allowing states to opt out of part of the current federal funding program and instead seek a fixed payment each year in exchange for gaining unprecedented flexibility over the program. | Medicaid, a federal-state health program that covers 1 in 5 Americans, has been an open-ended entitlem…
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Coronavirus same class as plague & HIV: PM Mishustin says Russia will deport infected foreigners if necessary
rt.com | 2020-02-03
Russia will isolate, quarantine, and deport foreigners struck down with the new Chinese coronavirus. The step was announced on Monday by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. | The country reported its first cases on Friday, raising fears that the epidemic affecting neighboring China could prompt a similar health emergency in Russia. However, Mishustin says the situation is currently contained, and there's no need for alarm. | "In order to prevent the spread of infection in our country, all necessary measures have been taken, the operational headquarters is working and, the situation is under control," he told his…
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In the Name of Medicare for All, This Family Doctor Will Vote for Bernie Sanders
Robert Dodge | commondreams.org | 2020-02-03
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks while introducing healthcare legislation titled the "Medicare for All Act of 2019" with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Laurie Garrett on How Trump Has Sabotaged America's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-03
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, the United States has declared a public health emergency and is barring foreign nationals who have recently traveled to China from entering the country. So far, there are 11 confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S. The virus has claimed at least 361 lives in China. A 44-year-old man in the Philippines became the first casualty of the disease outside of China Saturday, and over the weekend the number of confirmed cases worldwide rose to at least 17,205 across more than two dozen countries, with most of those cases occurring in China. U.S. citizens who have visited H…
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Coronavirus-infected woman gives birth to perfectly healthy baby in China
rt.com | 2020-02-03
A Chinese woman infected with the coronavirus has given birth to a healthy baby girl thanks to the quick and decisive intervention of hospital staff. | The Harbin Municipal Health Commission made the announcement on Monday, after the woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 3.05kgs (6.7 lbs) on January 30. The mother and daughter were kept in quarantine for observation at the hospital in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, and both are said to be in stable condition. | The woman presented herself to the hospital at 38 weeks pregnant with a high fever. Following an examination by medical staff, the…
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The War On Whistleblowers, Darrell Whitman & US Inspector General's Obstruction of Justice
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Former Federal OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman talks about the fight to protect Federal whistleblowers and private industry whistleblowers and the role of US Inspector Generals who have been allowed to operate without oversight. | He also discusses how this has affected the health and safety of workers and the public. He connects the Boeing 737 Max crashes and the failure to enforce regulations by the FAA and their own. inspector general. | He also talks about the criminal fraud at SF Hunters Point and Treasure Island and how these contaminated radioactive dumpsites a…
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Watch WHO chief cough & crack a 'VIRAL' joke… as watchdog tackles coronavirus (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-02-03
World Health Organization (WHO) head has managed to produce a truly horrible joke, worth of the darkest corners of the internet, as he coughed amid a WHO meeting on coronavirus

Laurie Garrett on How Trump Has Sabotaged America's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-03
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, the United States has declared a public health emergency and is barring foreign nationals who have recently traveled to China from entering the country. So far, there are 11 confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S. The virus has claimed at least 361 lives in China. A 44-year-old man in the Philippines became the first casualty of the disease outside of China Saturday, and over the weekend the number of confirmed cases worldwide rose to at least 17,205 across more than two dozen countries, with most of those cases occurring in China. U.S. citizens who have visited H…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/3/laurie_gar…

Watch WHO chief cough & crack a 'VIRAL' joke… as watchdog tackles coronavirus (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-02-03
World Health Organization (WHO) head has managed to produce a truly horrible joke, worth of the darkest corners of the internet, as he coughed amid a WHO meeting on coronavirus

'All US has done could only spread fear': China slams Washington for 'stoking panic' against Beijing over coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-02-03
China's Foreign Ministry has slammed Washington over the coronavirus outbreak, saying the US has been using it to fuel mass hysteria against Beijing, introducing measures that hurt civil rights more than they fight the virus. | Speaking at a press briefing on February 3, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that contrary to advice from World Health Organization (WHO), the American government has inappropriately "overreacted," especially by banning travelers who have been to China in the past two weeks. | "The US government hasn't provided any substantial assistance to us, but it was the first…
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Eating red meat and processed meat 'linked to increased risk of heart disease'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-03
Eating red meat and processed meat is linked to an increased risk of heart disease and death, new research suggests. | Eating two servings of red meat, processed meat or poultry per week was associated with a 3% to 7% higher risk of cardiovascular disease, the study found. | Consuming two servings of red meat or processed meat

China's first 'instant' coronavirus hospital accepting patients, second facility days from opening
rt.com | 2020-02-03
Huoshenshan Hospital, a makeshift 1,000-bed facility in China's Wuhan that was built in just 10 days, received its first coronavirus patients on Monday. A 1,500-bed facility in Leishenshan is due to open later this week. | The construction of the two hospitals in Wuhan, the city in central China worst affected by the ongoing viral epidemic, was ordered to keep the disease contained and prevent the risk of spreading the virus. It is consistent with Beijing's way of dealing with the 2013 SARS outbreak, when a temporary hospital was erected north of the capital in just one week. | Huoshenshan was built near Zhiyi…
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AIDS, Spanish Flu, the PLAGUE? Just how deadly is the coronavirus compared to history's WORST pandemics?
rt.com | 2020-02-03
As the infection and mortality rates of the novel coronavirus continue to rise, people everywhere are growing increasingly concerned about the threat, but just how bad is the virus relative to past pandemics? | In a highly interconnected and globalized world, humanity is increasingly susceptible to outbreaks of disease. Recent decades have seen a slew of infectious illnesses spiral into epidemics and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. | Swine flu has claimed over half a million lives since it crossed over to humans in 2009; The West Africa ebola outbreak killed more than 11,000 people, and SARS, Bird…
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Turkey to suspend flights from China until end of month
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-03
Turkey's health minister said Monday that as of Feb. 5, all flights from China will be suspended until the end of the month.Turkey will begin scanning passengers traveling from Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia through thermal cameras at airports, Fahrettin Koca said.Koca added that none of 61 people tested positive for coronavirus at Zekai Tahir Burak Hospital in the Turkish capital Ankara, where, a total of 32 Turks, and 10 foreign nationals, evacuated from China, had also been quarantined on Feb. 1.The coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has so far claimed 362 lives since its outbreak last Decembe…
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China slams US for spreading fear over new coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-03
China on Monday criticized the U.S. for spreading fear in the wake of new coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan city last December. Foreign Ministry Spokeswomen Hua Chunying told reporters that Washington did not extend any help to Beijing in its battle against the fatal coronavirus. | "Some countries, the U.S. in particular, have inappropriately overreacted, which certainly runs counter to the World Health Organization's advice," Hua said, adding that many countries applauded China for its efforts to stop the spread of the latest coronavirus.The novel coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, has killed 361 peopl…
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China says good communication with Taiwan on coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-03
China told the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday that it had shared full information on coronavirus with authorities in Taiwan, where there have been 10 confirmed cases, and that channels of communication across the straits were "unblocked".The Beijing government is sincere in resolving Taiwan's concerns on the virus and "measures taken are positive", China's delegate Li Song told the WHO's executive board in Geneva.But Li denounced what he called Taiwan's authorities "lies and excuses" related to its inability to attend WHO meetings, where the island regarded by Beijing as a renegade province is represen…
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Turkey takes measures at ports against coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-03
Turkey has taken measures at its ports against deadly coronavirus, an official said on Monday."We have already taken our precautions against all chemical, biological or radiological hazards. Coronavirus is an infectious disease and we have the necessary equipment [to deal with it]," said Murat Serdar Karadeniz, a medical doctor and in-charge at Ambarli Coast Health Inspection Center of Turkey's General Directorate of Health for Borders and Coasts.Karadeniz told reporters in Turkey's largest city Istanbul that no cases of coronavirus have been reported so far in the country.Last week, the World Health Organization…
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Marinette, WI: Workers at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area stand up to union busting
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-02
Marinette, WI – 300 workers at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area in Marinette, Wisconsin are fighting back against management's attacks on their right to organize. These attacks include using the expiration of their contract to cease dues check-off, offering poverty wages, and consistently extending bargaining by conveying misleading and inaccurate information to workers. These tactics are a vicious attack on working people and our ability to provide for our families. | AFSCME Local 3305 represents medical and professional support staff at the hospital, which was purchased by Aurora Health Care Inc. in 2019. Aurora…
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First Coronavirus Death Reported Outside of China
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-02
The first Coronavirus-related death outside of China has been reported by the Philippines Department of Health on Sunday, raising the death toll to 305 since the start of the new year. | According to the Philippines Department of Health, a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, the city with the largest number of Coronavirus cases, died on Saturday due to the illness. | The Chinese man was rushed to a hospital in the city of Manila, where he later succumbed to the virus, the Philippines Department of Health said in their statement. | Some 304 people have died in China, the country's National Health Commission s…
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It Should Be Easy to Defeat Trump, But Corporate Democrats Look Ready and Willing to Blow It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-02-01
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) embrace after the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 30, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Coronavirus Has Been Declared a Global Emergency. What's Happening in China
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-01
Tom Clifford reporting from Beijing | The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization. | "The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries," said …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-declared-global-emergency/5702427

Coronavirus: China Sees 2,590 New Cases, 45 New Deaths
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-01
Chinese health authorities Sunday said it received reports of 2,590 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 45 deaths on Saturday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. | RELATED: | WHO Declares Global Emergency for Outbreak of New Coronavirus | All the deaths are in Hubei Province, according to China's National Health Commission. | Another 4,562 new suspected cases were reported on Saturday, said the commission. | Als…
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Polling: Americans Dissatisfied with the State of the Union
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-01
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Critics: Trump EPA's formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human health indication of 'troubling allegiance' with Bayer/Monsanto
Eoin Higgins | nationofchange.org | 2020-02-01
"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
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Panama Canal Declares Security Measures Against Coronavirus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-01
The Ministry of Public Health of Panama confirmed the strengthening of security measures to prevent the entry of the Coronavirus 2019-nCoV into the country, which also affects the crossing of its transoceanic canal. | RELATED: | Coronavirus Pneumonia: 9,822 Confirmed Cases Reported Worldwide | Vessels must notify within 30 days before arriving at the isthmus, if they have traveled to ports located in countries that have confirmed cases of the infection, Panama Canal Authorities…
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US Pilots and Flight Attendants Demand Flights to China Stop
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-01
U.S.-based pilots and flight attendants are demanding their airlines stop flights to China, which have already been substantially reduced over the last week. | RELATED: | Coronavirus Is a Business Opportunity: US Secretary of Commerce | The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents American Airlines (AA) pilots, cited "serious, and in many ways still unknown, health threats posed by the coronavirus" in a lawsuit filed in Texas. | This legal action was supported by AA flig…
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US declares public health emergency over coronavirus, limits flights from China to 7 cities
rt.com | 2020-02-01
The US has declared an ongoing coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency, limiting points of entry to incoming Chinese flights and banning from entry some foreign nationals who traveled to China in the last two weeks. | "I have today declared that coronavirus presents a public health emergency in the United States," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said, announcing the measure on Friday. He stressed that the move was to "complement the work of China and the World Health Organization" that declared a global health crisis on Thursday. | The death toll from the novel virus, which originated in C…
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Western Imperialism Stokes Resistance
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-01
Tim Anderson's Axis of Resistance: Towards an Independent Middle East takes on the leftist position of 'a plague on all your houses'. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, 'the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution' (for westerners), presents a bleak portrait of "three monsters … treading on Syria's corpse": (1) the Assad regime and its allies, (2) DAESH/ISIS …
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Brexit just buried a DWP scandal
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-02-01
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is caught up in another scandal. This time, it involves its contentious assessments. But it appears the story is getting lost amid Brexit. | DWP assessments: | On Saturday 1 February, the Daily Record published a story on DWP assessments. These are where the department sends claimants to a private company. It then looks at the person's health to decide if they can get social security…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/02/01/brexit-just-buried-a-dwp-scandal/

Coronavirus Epidemic: WHO Declares a "Fake" Global Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-31
Out of 9600 confirmed cases, approximately 150 cases of infection have been recorded outside China. Moreover, (based on the above data, Jan 30), the 2019 nCoV has a low mortality rate (2.1%) compared to the Seasonal flu.
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Headlines for January 31, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-31
Senate Poised to Acquit President Trump in Impeachment Trial, World Health Organization Declares International Public Health Emergency, U.S. Special Envoy Warns of International Crisis in Idlib, Syria, Britain Formally Withdrawing from European Union Tonight, Pentagon Deploys 1st Low-Yield Nuclear Warhead-Armed Submarine, Trump Admin Poised to Loosen Restrictions on Use of Landmines, Human Rights Groups Condemn Mexico for Crackdown on Central American Migrants, Mexican Butterfly Conservationist Found Dead, Bolivia's Movement for Socialism Candidate Luis Arce Returns to Bolivia, U.S. Pushes EU to End Ban on Chemic…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/31/headlines

Two Wings, Four Despotisms
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-31
Republican Tyranny, Orange Menace Democracy is trumped in the United States by multiple, overlapping, interrelated and mutually reinforcing forms of despotism. The Trump administration and the Trumpified Republican Party, backed by a cult-like base, embody a creepy, neofascistic variant of the disease. The Republican White House and Senate are currently conducting a tasteless tutorial in…
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Two Wings, Four Despotisms
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-31
Republican Tyranny, Orange Menace Democracy is trumped in the United States by multiple, overlapping, interrelated and mutually reinforcing forms of despotism. The Trump administration and the Trumpified Republican Party, backed by a cult-like base, embody a creepy, neofascistic variant of the disease. The Republican White House and Senate are currently conducting a tasteless tutorial in…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/two-wings-fo…

UN agency declares the coronavirus a global health emergency
Al Neal, John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-31
The World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations, declared the outbreak ignited by a new strain of the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China that has spread to over a dozen countries as a global health emergency Thursday after a rapid spike in the number of cases this past week. To date, more than 7,800 …
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Chinese Resilience and Silent, Simple and Steady Resistance: a Model for Mankind
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-31
In a positive appeal to the Chinese people last Saturday, President Xi Jinping has called on the nation's courage to defeat the deadly epidemic which has already claimed more than 80 lives and more than 2,000 infected worldwide, the vast majority in China. These figures are changing fast, as the spread of the epidemic is …
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Coronavirus spread now a global emergency declares World Health Organization
news.un.org | 2020-01-30
The rise in new coronavirus cases outside China, now constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's Emergency Committee declared on Thursday, calling on all countries to take urgent measures to contain the respiratory disease.
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Cuba is Testing Products Against Cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-30
While demonized in the United States, the Cuban government has built a comprehensive nationalized healthcare system based on preventative medicine, rather than the curative model the U.S. employs…
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Coronavirus: First case confirmed in Gulf region, more than 6,000 worldwide
news.un.org | 2020-01-29
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the coronavirus outbreak has now spread to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The vast majority of cases continue to be declared in China, with more than 6,000 confirmed, 68 of them outside of the country.
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South Dakota May Criminalize Lifesaving Healthcare for Trans Youth in Latest Attack on LGBTQ Rights
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-29
The South Dakota Legislature is expected to debate a bill today that would criminalize gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth. If passed, House Bill 1057 would make it a felony for doctors to provide anyone under the age of 16 with puberty blockers, hormones and other transition-related healthcare. Medical professionals who provide this care could face up to 10 years in prison under the terms of the Republican-backed bill, which was passed in committee last week. On Tuesday, South Dakota introduced another anti-trans bill that would authorize parents to deny gender-affirming treatment to their children. I…
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What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective
Jay Stanley | aclu.org | 2020-01-28
The world is watching anxiously to see what happens with the | coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. As scientists and public health | officials in the United States learn more about the virus, and as we all see | how bad the outbreak turns out to be, it is important that public policymaking | remain firmly centered around science. | Unfortunately, our history of reactions to infectious | disease outbreaks suggests that if this outbreak becomes severe, we're likely | to see strong pressure to the contrary. In particular, we can expect three | things: | We can expect some to | panic.: | Unfortu…
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Headlines for January 27, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-27
Impeachment Trial Resumes as Leaked Bolton Manuscript Bolsters Democrats' Case, Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 81 in China as Disease Spreads Around the World, Pentagon: 34 U.S. Troops Have Brain Injuries After Iranian Attack on Iraqi Airbase, Deadly Crackdown on Iraqi Protests Continue as 100,000s March Against U.S. Military Presence, Turkey Earthquake Kills 38; At Least 1,600 Hospitalized, Ugandan Activist Vanessa Nakate Slams Racist Media After Being Cropped from Photo with White Activists, Trump Attends Anti-Abortion "March for Life" as Admin Continues Assault on Reproductive Rights, High-Ranking Pharma Exec…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/27/headlines

Insurance Lobby Talking Points Don't Come With Warning Labels
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-01-24
Ever since The Intercept ( 11/20/18) found several planning documents by the Partnership for America's Healthcare Future (PAHCF), a benign-sounding corporate alliance formed to prevent any kind of reform and prop up the dysfunctional US healthcare system's profits, corporate media have been reporting on…
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