Venezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-14
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Thursday announced that the health system is "on permanent alert," although there are no Covid-19 cases in this South American country so far. He also reported that landing of flights from Europe, Colombia, and Panama will …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-takes-action-against-covid-19-amid-us-blockade/5706283
Coronavirus, Epidemics and Capitalism: The Bugs Are in the System
Radical Women | indybay.org | 2020-03-14
Radical Women supports and recommends this thoughtful analysis of the novel coronavirus by our sister organization, the Freedom Socialist Party. The statement raises excellent demands to protect workers, women, the poor, and people of color being scapegoated for the crisis.
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To Help Stem Coronavirus, Lift Sanctions on Iran
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-14
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is far from the first proof of how intertwined we are as a global community. The climate crisis and the refugee crisis have long been glaring examples that the wars or CO2 emissions on one continent risk the lives and well-being of people on another continent. What coronavirus is providing, however, is a unique opportunity to look specifically at how the intentional damage caused to one country's healthcare system can make it harder for the entire world to address a pandemic. | The cor…
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Medicare for All Would Transform the Labor Market for the Better
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-14
A Medicare for All health care system would create millions of new jobs despite critics' concerns that it would cause widespread job losses by eliminating the private insurance industry, according to a new analysis by th…
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The RNC Gave Big Contracts to Companies Tied to Its Chair's Backers and Husband
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-14
The Republican National Committee has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to contractors closely connected to the organization's chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel. | One contract went to her husband's insurance company. Two others went to businesses whose executives recently donated to Ronna for Chair, a largely inactive political action committee that McDaniel controls. She had set it up in 2015, when she successfully ran for chair of the Republican Party in Michigan, her home state. | The comp…
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Racist Attacks and Border Militarization Intensify as Coronavirus Spreads
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-14
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World Health Organization pleads for $675 million to fight coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
While the World Health Organization begs for resources to fight the global contagion, the Trump administration has provided $1.5 trillion to prop up the markets.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/covi…
Coronavirus pandemic threatens to overwhelm India's dilapidated health system
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party government are stubbornly refusing to mobilize state resources to stem the spread of the virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/inco…
During Coronavirus Crisis, What If You Can't Stay Home?
Street Sheet | indybay.org | 2020-03-14
Recommendations to support the health of people experiencing homelessness during the Coronavirus State of Emergency | Last updated Monday, March 9th @2: 50pm…
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Oil price crash: 50% of US shale could go bankrupt
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Global demand fears and a new supply crisis have triggered the sharpest decline in oil prices in decades and US shale drillers could become the first victim. | Oil opened on Monday down roughly 25 percent, the sharpest decline in decades, and broader financial markets fell so precipitously that the circuit breakers put in place during times of volatility tripped, temporarily halting trading. | The list of adjectives available to describe what is happening to the oil market is not adequate. There are now multiple crises unfolding at the same time. | First, there is obviously a health crisis
This Recession Calls for A Bigger, Greener Stimulus
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-14
Every crisis is also an opportunity, as the saying goes, and this is especially true of historic crises like the current coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, as Kate Aranoff writes in a new piece at the New Republic, the U.S. government looks determined to squander one of the greatest opportunities presented by the economic crisis shadowing the health crisis: The chance to pass a stimulus package that moves toward the emissions goals demanded by the science of climate change. | While the subject of carbon emissions may seem unrelated to the virus, the climate crisis is so severe that it can no longer be so easily…
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Postponement of Signature Gathering for Voter Right to Decide on Downtown Parking Garage
Campaign for Sustainable Transportation | indybay.org | 2020-03-14
[March 13, 2020] To help reduce the serious risk of COVID-19 spreading in our community, the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation is postponing petition signature gathering to place on the ballot Santa Cruz city voters' right to decide on future construction of a parking garage downtown. CFST wants our community to thrive, and there is no more fundamental basis for the common good than public health. Each of us individually and all of us collectively must work to create a sustainable community and a sustainable planet. We will reevaluate how to proceed in light of developments as they unfold.
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Experts advise on precautions we should take to stop spreading coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-14
Since the coronavirus outbreak, health officials and experts have advised washing hands regularly for 20 seconds at a time.– Why is hand-washing so important? Germs, including viruses like Covid-19, exist on surfaces in our everyday living spaces says Wendy Graham, professor in the department of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).Graham said hands are one of the most common means by which germs are transferred from surface to surface. For example via door handles and taps, and potentially then to other parts of the body like the mouth.– How long…
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Postponement of Signature Gathering for Voter Right to Decide on Downtown Parking Garage
Campaign for Sustainable Transportation | indybay.org | 2020-03-14
[March 13, 2020] To help reduce the serious risk of COVID-19 spreading in our community, the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation is postponing petition signature gathering to place on the ballot Santa Cruz city voters' right to decide on future construction of a parking garage downtown. CFST wants our community to thrive, and there is no more fundamental basis for the common good than public health. Each of us individually and all of us collectively must work to create a sustainable community and a sustainable planet. We will reevaluate how to proceed in light of developments as they unfold.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/13/1883150…
'Write books or shut up': Stephen King takes heat after criticizing Trump's Covid-19 response team for being 'male, old & white'
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Horror novelist Stephen King's latest hot take on the Covid-19 outbreak has not gone down well online, slamming President Trump's response team for having the wrong race, age and gender
Poland, Czech Republic close borders, shut down public life due to coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
Three decades after the restoration of capitalism and endless austerity, the health care system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as across all of Europe, is in a devastating condition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/pola…
Leading health experts warn that U.S. is past coronavirus containment
Dr. Jordan Schlain | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-14
Editor's note: The University of California at San Francisco Hospital is considered a leading health institution in the U.S. with specialization in treatment and handling of infectious disease. Like many other institutions of this type, it has put together one or more panels of experts to study the current crisis and to make proposals to …
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Experts advise on precautions we should take to stop spreading coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-14
Since the coronavirus outbreak, health officials and experts have advised washing hands regularly for 20 seconds at a time.– Why is hand-washing so important? Germs, including viruses like Covid-19, exist on surfaces in our everyday living spaces says Wendy Graham, professor in the department of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).Graham said hands are one of the most common means by which germs are transferred from surface to surface. For example via door handles and taps, and potentially then to other parts of the body like the mouth.– How long…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/03/14/experts-advise-on-precautions-we-should-take-to-stop-spreading-coronavirus/
European airlines facing BLOODBATH as coronavirus crisis rocks industry
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Major European airlines are set to axe thousands of jobs and, without bailouts, some are facing collapse as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on the industry. | After weeks of uncertainty in the sector, Saturday brought a raft of bad news for European carriers. The French government said it is not considering a bailout of Air France-KLM at this stage, as the airline struggles for survival amidst the public health crisis. | Scandanavian Airlines is reportedly laying off 100 pilots and 100 cabin crew on a temporary basis while Swiss International is taking half its fleet out of service and reducing working h…
rt.com/news/483152-airline-industry-cris…
Toronto threatens to lock out public health workers amid expanding coronavirus pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
City authorities absurdly claimed that the loss of 90 percent of its public health workforce would not impede the effectiveness of its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/toro…
ILWU & Migrant Organizations Defend Grand Princess Crew & US Workers
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-03-14
The Bay Area ILWU and migrant rights organizations joined together to support the Grand Princess crew health and safety as. well as the health and safety conditions of longshore workers and all port workers. They also discussed the fight of all working people to defend and protect their health and safety rights.
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Russia's number of confirmed coronavirus cases reaches 59
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Some 14 new coronavirus patients were identified in Russia on Saturday with the total number of infected reaching 59. Moscow leads with the number of new cases, with 9 infected with Covid-19 detected in the capital. So far, the coronavirus has not claimed any lives in Russia. | Over 145,000 coronavirus patients have been registered worldwide, and more than 5,400 of them died. While the majority of cases have originated in the pandemic's ground zero
Guatemala bars travel from US & Canada as Washington reluctant to halt deportations despite coronavirus concerns
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Guatemala has expanded a travel ban on those arriving from countries hit hardest by Covid-19 to include the United States and Canada, the country's president said, amid worries that deportations from the US are driving the crisis. | After stepping up measures to contain the outbreak earlier this week
Coronavirus will deepen social and health problems in Sri Lanka
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
The jobs and livelihoods of workers and the poor, who have been battered by the decades-long communalist war and government austerity measures, will be hard hit.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/slco…
During Coronavirus Crisis, What If You Can't Stay Home?
Street Sheet | indybay.org | 2020-03-14
Recommendations to support the health of people experiencing homelessness during the Coronavirus State of Emergency | Last updated Monday, March 9th @2: 50pm…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/12/1883147…
Pakistan agrees to discuss regional Covid-19 strategy after Modi calls for cooperation, ending 4-year hiatus with South Asian bloc
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Islamabad has signaled willingness to partake in a joint response to the coronavirus with a bloc of South Asian nations, after Indian PM Narendra Modi broke years of stalemate with the regional body and called for coordination. | Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said on Friday that the country's Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Zafar Mirza would participate in a joint teleconference with leaders from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to formulate a combined action plan to contain the outbreak. | "The threat of #COVID-19 requires coordinat…
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'Nationalize factories & industries!' De Blasio kicks panic up to 11 calling coronavirus 'war-like situation'
rt.com | 2020-03-14
New York City Mayor and failed presidential candidate Bill de Blasio jumped on MSNBC to compare the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic to war and claim "nationalization" would fix the US' "Mar-a-Lago attitude" toward the disease. | "Here's the reality, this is a war-like situation," De Blasio told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Saturday morning when criticizing the federal government's response to the coronavirus. The mayor claims he has been "pleading for weeks" for coronavirus test kits to be more available to citizens. | "We're in a war-time scenario with a Mar-a-Lago attitude being used by the federal government," he cont…
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Spain declares state of emergency as unions agree to mass layoffs
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
The decision comes as there are 4,209 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 1,000 more than the day before, and 120 deaths from the disease across Spain.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/spai…
Spanish PM's wife tests positive for Covid-19 after Madrid imposes national lockdown to tackle the disease
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez's wife, Begona Gomez, has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, the government has confirmed. It comes after the Iberian country entered into lockdown, with ban on all non-essential movement. | Both Gomez and her husband, the Prime Minister, are feeling well, Sanchez's office reported Sunday night. | The new comes shortly after Sanchez unveiled what he described as "drastic" and "extraordinary" measures as part of the state of emergency to fend off the spread of the disease that has so far claimed at least 193 lives across the country, and infected over 6,250. | The restrictive m…
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Do-nothing Mitch? McConnel takes flak for keeping Senate in recess after House passes coronavirus aid bill
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnel is taking heavy fire for keeping the chamber in long recess even after House approval of a bipartisan bill on emergency relief to coronavirus epidemics. | McConnel took a hands-off approach to this week's work on federal response to the disease, allowing Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to negotiate what a bipartisan approach to the emergency would look like. He agreed to cancel Senate recess next week, but gave senators a long weekend. | I fully support H.R. 6201: Families First CoronaVirus Response Act, which will be voted on in the House this evening. This Bill will fo…
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Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso have been released: UN
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
A Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in neighbouring Mali and appear to be in good health, a mission spokesman said on Saturday.Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto went missing while travelling through Burkina Faso, a country where jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State are active.U.N. mission spokesman Olivier Salgado told Reuters that Blais and Tacchetto were received by peacekeepers on Friday evening and would be handed over to Malian authorities later on Saturday.It is not known who was r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/canadian-woman-an…
Austria announces coronavirus aid package, ditches deficit target
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Austria is making 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) immediately available to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the conservative-led government said on Saturday as it ditched a central pledge to balance its budget.Austria has closed its borders to most arrivals from neighbouring Switzerland and Italy because of the coronavirus outbreaks there and is in the process of scaling back daily life to slow the disease's spread, shutting schools and most shops other than those selling food and medicine."A balanced budget is always important, but Austrians' health, jobs and a stable economy is…
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Rwanda confirms first case of coronavirus: health ministry
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Rwanda has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the East African nation from Mumbai on March 8, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.He had no symptoms on arrival but presented himself to a health facility on March 13, the ministry said. Rwanda is the 19th African nation to report the presence of coronavirus.
yenisafak.com/en/world/rwanda-confirms-f…
Iraq reports new coronavirus death, takes toll to 10
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Iraq's health authorities confirmed a new death from coronavirus on Saturday, taking the total fatalities in the country to 10.In a statement, the health directorate in the southern Wasit province said an elderly man died of the virus and his wife had also tested positive for the virus in the town of Sheikh Saad after their recent trip to Iran.The wife has been hospitalized for medical attention, the directorate said, without giving any more details.Wasit police said the town has been locked down following the new death from the disease.The new fatality brings to 10 the number of Iraqis who have died from the vir…
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Qatar reports 17 new coronavirus infections
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
The new cases had contacted with expatriate workers, who are currently quarantined, the ministry said in a statement cited by the official QNA news agency.On Thursday, Qatari authorities closed all cinemas and theaters as part of its effort to stem the spread of the disease.After emerging in Wuhan, China, in December, the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has spread so far to 129 countries and territories.The global death toll is now over 5,400, with more than 146,000 confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization, which declared the outbreak a "pandemic".
yenisafak.com/en/news/qatar-reports-17-n…
Mexican coronavirus tally increases to 26: health ministry
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Mexico has registered a rise in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 26 from 15 a day earlier, the Mexican health ministry on Friday.
yenisafak.com/en/news/mexican-coronaviru…
German Finance Minister Vows to Use 'Bazooka' to Shore Up Companies Amid COVID-19 Crisis
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
Earlier this week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that the coronavirus outbreak can be viewed as a pandemic which WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said is "a crisis that will touch every sector".
sputniknews.com/europe/20200314107856365…
Spain Records Over 1,500 New Coronavirus Cases in 24 Hours – Health Ministry
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
MADRID (Sputnik) – Earlier this week, the World Health Organisation declared the spread of the COVID-19 a pandemic. The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has surpassed 145,000, with over 5,400 fatalities.
sputniknews.com/europe/20200314107856710…
Rouhani: Iran's Efforts to Fight Coronavirus in Face of US Sanctions 'Remarkable'
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
The news comes after earlier this week President Donald Trump announced that oil development sanctions against Iran would be extended for another year. Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif responded by stating that Washington is draining Tehran's resources amid a health crisis, calling it economic and medical terrorism.
sputniknews.com/us/202003141078566693-ro…
COVID-19: a multifaceted neoliberal crisis
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-14
Economy Healthcare Graham MatthewsIssue 1257 Australia COVID-19March 14, 2020Here we are again. Little more than 10 years after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the world economy faces another crash. Last ti…
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Qatar flight carrying medical aid arrives in Iran
IRNA | iranian.com | 2020-03-14
A Qatari airplane carrying government medical and health aid from Doha has arrived in Tehran. Iran Air will also provide its third flight to Qatar on Friday to bring home Iranian passengers stranded in Qatar due to coronavirus fears. In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Iran Air flights to Qatar were suspended. Due to …
iranian.com/2020/03/13/qatar-flight-carr…
Amid the Worse Public Crisis in Decades, Trump Admin Finds the Time and Money to Bomb Iraq
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
While the government has found plenty of money to carry out wars around the globe (the Trump administration increased the military budget to $934 billion), when it comes to policies protecting public health, money is always apparently lacking.
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Coronavirus epidemic responses reveal differences in capitalist and socialist values
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
BEIJING–The world has a Public Enemy No. 1, and it's the novel coronavirus. Capable of causing severe pneumonia among those it infects, the virus first wreaked havoc on the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province and has since spread at an alarming rate. At present, thousands have died and over 100,000 have been infected …
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Coronavirus Prevention That Works For Working People
Liz Watson | commondreams.org | 2020-03-13
Medicare for All, paid family leave, universal child care, a robust social safety net. These things are not a wish list. They are essentials. (Photo: United Workers / flickr / cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-03-13
Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19…
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Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-03-13
Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19…
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Union Workers Are More Likely to Have Paid Sick Days and Health Insurance
Elise Gould | commondreams.org | 2020-03-13
Union workers are more likely to be able to stay home and seek medical care, which will help strengthen their communities by being less likely to spread the virus. (Photo: Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The FDA Is Forcing the CDC to Waste Time Double Testing Some Coronavirus Cases
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-13
The FDA's strict guidance on test confirmations is one of several obstacles that has slowed the federal government's response to COVID-19. The FDA could change its rules to speed things up, but hasn't.
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US CDC Director Robert Redfield Admitted that Coronavirus Deaths Have Been Miscategorized as Flu
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The US has been lying all along. | Robert Redfield, CDC director, testifying to Congress, today admitted that virus deaths have been miscategorised as the flu. | He also stated that the standard practice has been to first test people for …
globalresearch.ca/us-cdc-director-admitted-virus-deaths-miscategorized-flu/5706233
The FDA Is Forcing the CDC to Waste Time Double Testing Some Coronavirus Cases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-13
A federal directive that's supposed to speed up the response to a pandemic is actually slowing down the government's rollout of coronavirus tests. | The directive, issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, requires that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a sister agency, retest every positive coronavirus test run by a public health lab to confirm its accuracy. The result, experts say, is wasting limited resources at a time when thousands of Americans are waiting in line…
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