Immigrants in US detention facilities plea for help as coronavirus pandemic spreads
wsws.org | 2020-03-20
The lack of medical care and the extremely close quarters in America's detention camps create excellent conditions for the coronavirus to spread rapidly if even a single person catches the disease.
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Spinning Fear and Panic Across America. Analysis of COVID-19 Data
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-20
The US media is relentlessly spinning fear, panic and despair, with the endorsement of "authoritative" American scientists. "The new coronavirus could kill millions across the United States", according to Dr. Kathleen Neuzil a specialist in vaccines at the University of …
globalresearch.ca/spinning-fear-and-panic-across-america-analysis-of-covid-19-data/5706785
Immigrants in US detention facilities plead for help as coronavirus pandemic spreads
wsws.org | 2020-03-20
The lack of medical care and the extremely close quarters in America's detention camps create excellent conditions for the coronavirus to spread rapidly if even a single person catches the disease.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/20/coro…
[Editorial] Peace and health in Afghanistan
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
After years of war and political instability, Afghanistan is at a potentially historic crossroads. On Feb 29, 2020, a peace deal was agreed between the Taliban and the USA. The anticipated resumption of talks between the Afghan Government and the Taliban could signal a new phase, but what this means for the Afghan people is unclear. Weak health systems and disrupted access to health care have left many in poor health for decades, but since the fall of the Taliban some extraordinary gains in health have occurred.
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[Research Paper] A phase 1b randomized study of the safety and immunological responses to vaccination with H4:IC31, H56:IC31, and BCG revaccination in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-uninfected adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa
Linda-Gail Bekker, One Dintwe, Andrew Fiore-Gartland, Keren Middelkoop, Julia Hutter, Anthony Williams, April K. Randhawa, Morten Ruhwald, Ingrid Kromann, Peter L. Andersen, Carlos A. DiazGranados, Kathryn T. Rutkowski, Dereck Tait, Maurine D. Miner, Erica Andersen-Nissen, Stephen C. De Rosa, Kelly E. Seaton, Georgia D. Tomaras, M. Juliana McElrath, Ann Ginsberg, James G. Kublin, HVTN 602 | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
BCG revaccination administered as a single dose ID and both H4: IC31 and H56: IC31 administered as 2 doses IM had acceptable safety profiles in healthy, QFT-negative, previously BCG-vaccinated adolescents. Characterization of the assays and the immunogenicity of these vaccines may help to identify valuable markers of protection for upcoming immune correlates analyses of C-040-404 and future TB vaccine efficacy trials.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30057-2/fulltext?rss=yes
Efficacy and safety of methotrexate in the management of inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials
Ole Haagen Nielsen, Casper Steenholdt, Carsten Bogh Juhl, Gerhard Rogler | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Current data support the efficacy of parenteral MTX monotherapy for maintenance of clinical remission in CD. MTX is not confirmed to be effective for treatment of UC or for induction of remission in CD. No evidence supports concomitant MTX to improve efficacy of IFX (no other biologics investigated).
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30015-8/fulltext?rss=yes
Doctor: As Coronavirus Cases Spike Worldwide, We Need Global Cooperation to Halt Spread
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-20
As the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 10,000, with over 250,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, we speak with Stanford University's global health expert Dr. Michele Barry, an infectious disease doctor. Italy has surpassed China in coronavirus deaths, and cases are rising in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, as the governor of California has ordered all 40 million residents to shelter in place.
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/20/coronavir…
The Kushner Family Could Be Getting Very Rich Thanks to the Coronavirus
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-20
The Kushner family's ties to for-profit healthcare companies underscore the myriad of conflicts of interests that billionaire businessmen have, making them particularly unsuited to holding public office.
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Supreme Court Could Soon Make Government Regulation
Lee Price | zcomm.org | 2020-03-20
Without the power to regulate health, safety, finance and other critical areas, we'll be living in a much sicker, more dangerous and more economically unstable world…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/supreme-court-coul…
Coronavirus, Vaccines and the Gates Foundation
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-20
Arguably, no one has been more active in promoting and funding research on vaccines aimed at dealing with coronavirus than Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From sponsoring a simulation of a coronavirus global pandemic, just weeks …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-gates-foundation/5706842
The capitalist pandemic, Coronavirus and the economic crisis
Éric Toussaint | mronline.org | 2020-03-20
The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus will be enormous. If it massively affects countries of the Global South with very fragile public health systems that have been undermined by 40 years of neo-liberal policies, the death toll will be very high. […] | Source…
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[Spotlight] Coronavirus epidemic: preparing for extracorporeal organ support in intensive care
Claudio Ronco, Paolo Navalesi, Jean Louis Vincent | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Zoonotic viral infections are more frequently crossing species to infect human populations. In 2003, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus was transmitted to humans from exotic animals in wet markets in China, and in 2015, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus was transmitted from camels in Saudi Arabia. In both cases, and with the 2019 coronavirus outbreak in China, the original host of the virus is likely to be bats.
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[Comment] The burden of allergic diseases in the Indian subcontinent: barriers and challenges
Mamidipudi T Krishna, Padukudru Anand Mahesh, Pudupakkam K Vedanthan, Vinay Mehta, Saibal Moitra, Devasahayam Jesudas Christopher | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Allergic diseases occur because of a complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors. High-income countries have faced an allergy epidemic during the past 3–4 decades, with nearly one in four children diagnosed with allergic rhinitis, asthma, or eczema. An increasing prevalence of allergic rhinitis and asthma has also been reported in the Indian subcontinent.1,2 India is the second most populous country (1 ∑35 billion people) in the world and is classified as a lower-middle income country.
thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PI…(20)30061-9/fulltext?rss=yes
Nature's Revenge: Climate Change and COVID-19
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-20
The corona virus pandemic is no accident. Like past global epidemics, it's a warning that nature has had it with the ecocidal proclivities of man. These outrageous actions are changing climate and are warming and threatening planet Earth. Nature (the Earth) is fighting back. Climate change is sowing pandemic diseases. Corona virus in America No…
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[Comment] Measles epidemic in Samoa and other Pacific islands
Adam T Craig, Anita E Heywood, Heather Worth | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
On Oct 16, 2019, the Samoan Ministry of Health declared a measles outbreak, the first Pacific island country to do so in the current global resurgence of measles.1 As of Jan 22, 2020, 5707 measles cases and 83 measles-related deaths (estimated attack rate of approximately 285 cases per 10‚Äà000 population) have been reported.2 87% of deaths have been reported as children younger than 5 years, a mortality rate of approximately 25 deaths per 10‚Äà000 people in this age group.2…
thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PI…(20)30053-0/fulltext?rss=yes
China's Wuhan Marks No New Coronavirus Case, Success of Strict Measures
Xinhua | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-20
No new infections of the novel coronavirus were reported on Wednesday in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, marking a notable first in the city's months-long battle with the deadly virus and sending a message of hope to the world …
globalresearch.ca/china-wuhan-marks-no-new-coronavirus-case-success-strict-measures/5706860
If Trump Declares Martial Law Due to Coronavirus, Can He Suspend the Election?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-20
Following the criticism that he has mismanaged the nation's response to the coronavirus epidemic, Trump has declared himself a "wartime president." If martial law is next, what will happen to the November election?
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[Comment] A public health emergency among young people
Andy Bush, Jayesh M Bhatt, Gary J Connett, Iolo Doull, Francis J Gilchrist, Jonathan Grigg, Simon C Langton Hewer, Julian Legg, Warren Lenney, Ian P Sinha | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
While some countries have banned the use of e-cigarettes or vaping products altogether (eg, India), and others have strongly advised against their use (eg, Australia), in the UK, Public Health England (PHE) appears to be a lone voice in stating that vaping is 95% safer than smoking tobacco. Here we consider whether vaping can be considered safe; whether vaping is a means of smoking cessation or at least harm reduction; and the correct response to the spiralling epidemic of vaping in young people (
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[Comment] Offline: COVID-19–a reckoning
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
"To be clear we have one strategic aim: save lives." So stated a UK Government health adviser in an email sent to me last weekend. It was an email filled with frustration. "Part of the considerable difficulty in managing this epidemic", he wrote, "where we know a number of things but have some major gaps in knowledge (especially around asymptomatic transmission by age, which has major implications), is to do this in a way where we minimise the negative health impact of interventions on other aspects of health, both physical and mental…And try to think through the endgame from the start, where the endgame is qui…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)30669-3/fulltext?rss=yes
[Editorial] Challenges of coronavirus disease 2019
The Lancet Infectious Diseases | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Yet again, the world is experiencing a global viral epidemic of zoonotic origin. As of Feb 12, 45‚Äà204 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 1116 deaths had been reported in 25 countries. The majority of cases and, at the time of writing, all but one death have been in China, despite efforts in the country to halt transmission through shutting down transport, quarantining entire cities, and enforcing the use of face masks. International flights have been cancelled and affected cruise ships quarantined.
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[Correspondence] Therapeutic and triage strategies for 2019 novel coronavirus disease in fever clinics
Jinnong Zhang, Luqian Zhou, Yuqiong Yang, Wei Peng, Wenjing Wang, Xuelin Chen | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
In December, 2019, numerous unexplained pneumonia cases occurred in Wuhan, China. This outbreak was confirmed to be caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), belonging to the same family of viruses responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).1 The SARS epidemic in 2003 was controlled through numerous measures in China. One effective strategy was the establishment of fever clinics for triaging patients. Based on our first-hand experience in dealing with the present outbreak in Wuhan, we have established the following clinical s…
thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PI…(20)30071-0/fulltext?rss=yes
[Correspondence] Mass masking in the COVID-19 epidemic: people need guidance
Chi Chiu Leung, Tai Hing Lam, Kar Keung Cheng | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
As the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outside China is accelerating, we urge policy makers to reconsider the role of masking.
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[Correspondence] Potential association between COVID-19 mortality and health-care resource availability
Yunpeng Ji, Zhongren Ma, Maikel P Peppelenbosch, Qiuwei Pan | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
The ongoing epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is devastating, despite extensive implementation of control measures. The outbreak was sparked in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province in China, and quickly spread to different regions of Hubei and across all other Chinese provinces.
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[Comment] UN General Assembly tuberculosis targets: are we on track?
Suvanand Sahu, Lucica Ditiu, Lovett Lawson, Francine Ntoumi, Denise Arakaki, Alimuddin Zumla | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
The 2018 UN General Assembly (UNGA) Political Declaration on Tuberculosis was a turning point in global efforts to end the tuberculosis epidemic.1,2 Ambitious targets were set for scale-up and roll-out of diagnostic, treatment, and prevention services, political commitments, principles of equity and human rights, and financing, implementation, and research. Targets included diagnosing and treating an additional 40 million people with tuberculosis by 2022 and generating US$13 billion per year for tuberculosis care and prevention and $2 billion per year for research and development.
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The Virus and Capitalism
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-20
The U.S. is in the midst of a full-blown public health crisis made worse by systemic political dysfunction. The benchmark Imperial College study suggesting that up to two million people in the U.S. could die from the coronavirus epidemic assumes that the U.S. has an adequate healthcare system— that no one dies from not getting treatment. It doesn't. Without one, expected deaths are much higher. Should the U.S. experience be similar to Italy or Wuhan to date, add another eleven million* dead to the worst case scenario.
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[Comment] How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic?
Roy M Anderson, Hans Heesterbeek, Don Klinkenberg, T Déirdre Hollingsworth | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Governments will not be able to minimise both deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the economic impact of viral spread. Keeping mortality as low as possible will be the highest priority for individuals; hence governments must put in place measures to ameliorate the inevitable economic downturn. In our view, COVID-19 has developed into a pandemic, with small chains of transmission in many countries and large chains resulting in extensive spread in a few countries, such as Italy, Iran, South Korea, and Japan.
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[World Report] Canada and COVID-19: learning from SARS
Paul Webster | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
The 2003 SARS epidemic killed 44 people in Canada, and led to many proposals for reforms. Paul Webster looks at how the SARS outbreak has affected Canada's COVID-19 response.
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Fighting COVID-19 in Cuba, China, and the United States
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-20
Governments, according to Thomas Jefferson, are supposed to guarantee people's rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." COVID-19 has put people's lives and health in the spotlight now. What kinds of tools do governments have at their disposal to protect lives and health? Cuba has the advantages of forward-looking leadership, well-orchestrated state planning, …
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[Commentary] Women and girls' health agency: Operationalizing the "Can-Act-Resist" of the women's empowerment process
Anita Raj | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action
[Correspondence] Launching HIV self-testing in a multicultural setting in Cameroon
Franàßois-Xavier Mbopi-Kéou, Ginette Claude Mireille Kalla, Paulin Anankeu, Jean-Emmanuel Pondi | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
People living with HIV in western and central Africa are often unaware of their HIV status.1 To address this issue, HIV self-testing, an approach developed in 2014, should be incorporated into implementation strategies for a more efficient fight against HIV. On May 15, 2019, HIV self-testing was launched in Ngog Mapubi, a remote, rural health district of the Centre Region of Cameroon (figure). We aimed to evaluate the sociodemographic and behavioural factors associated with acceptability of supervised HIV self-testing among the local population, including students, using a specifically designed questionnaire.
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[Comment] Measuring mortality from non-communicable diseases: broadening the band
K Srinath Reddy | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Despite inexplicable exclusion from the Millennium Development Goals of 2000, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were recognised as a major global public health threat by the UN in 2011 and found a place in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2015. Periodically updated estimates of NCD-related death and disability, from the Global Burden of Disease Study, and associated economic losses, make a compelling case for a determined response.1–3…
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Drivers shut down Detroit bus system with sick-out over health and safety concerns during coronavirus outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-03-20
Bus drivers took matters into their own hands in Detroit on Tuesday morning and shut down the city's public transportation system to demand sanitary conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/20/buss…
WorkWeek On SF Housing With Dean Preston, ILWU Port Safety & UCSF AFSCME Cancer Cluster
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-03-20
WorkWeek interviews SF Supervisor Dean Preston about the housing crisis and the fight against evictions. Next WorkWeek hears about UAW auto worker wildcats over the failure to protect the health and safety of auto workers. We interview UAW 551 Chicago Ford worker Scott Houldierson. | Next WorkWeek hears about the conditions of Bay Area Longshore workers who are members of ILWU Local 10 with Trent Willis, president of the Local. | Last, WorkWeek interviews Stella Miranda, the wife of a UCSF AFSCME 3299 worker whose worksite was on radioactive contaminated land at the Hunters Point shipyard. | She talks about what…
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San Francisco Food Not Bombs Is Sharing Food on Wednesday, March 18
San Francisco Food Not Bombs | indybay.org | 2020-03-20
San Francisco Food Not Bombs will keep its regular schedule during the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Shelter In Place Order.
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[Correspondence] Exactly what do we know about tree pollen allergenicity?
Rita Sousa-Silva, Audrey Smargiassi, Alain Paquette, David Kaiser, Dan Kneeshaw | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Ecosystem services (benefits to humans) of urban trees are thought to include positive health outcomes resulting from their reduction of air temperature, pollution, and noise, and their promotion of physical activity and wellbeing. Trees, however, are also associated with disservices such as pollen-related allergies and asthma, which has led to questioning of the benefits of urban greening on respiratory health.1 Surprisingly, the allergenic potency and cross-reactivity of most tree species are still largely unknown or based on undocumented methods.
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[Comment] Air pollution and stunting: a missing link?
Sheela S Sinharoy, Thomas Clasen, Reynaldo Martorell | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Child linear growth impairment, particularly stunting, remains a global health challenge. Stunting is defined as a height-for-age Z-score more than two SDs below the WHO child growth standards reference median for age and sex. The number of children younger than 5 years who are stunted was 59 million (34%) in south Asia and 58 million (33%) in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018.1 Stunting is associated with poor child development, lower productivity and earnings in adulthood, and increased risk of chronic diseases later in life.
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Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-20
Cuban health authorities announced on Thursday that the country will send 53 health professionals to Lombardy, Italy, to help contain the new coronavirus pandemic. | RELATED: | Cuba UK Cruise Ship with 5 COVID-19 Cases Starts Evacuating in Cuba | The 53 doctors and nurses have experience in caring for these types of diseases. In 2014, they traveled to Sierra Leone in West Africa to fight the Ebola virus. | According to Cuban authorities, the arrival in Lombardy will take place…
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What We Must Learn From Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Julian Vigo | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-20
One of the major concerns about COVID-19 in northern Italy after concern for the physically infirm and elderly is the impact treating patients will have on the healthcare system. The healthcare system in many northern Italian regions is already at a breaking point as within the first twenty days of the outbreak over 10,000 infections …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/what-we-must-…
[Research Paper] Sport as a vehicle of change for livelihoods, social participation and marital health for the youth: Findings from a prospective cohort in Bihar, India
Nandita Bhan, Kaushik Bhadra, Namratha Rao, Jennifer Yore, Anita Raj | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Evidence from India shows that sport can be an instrument supporting pro-social engagement for boys and girls. Further understanding of the gendered nature of sport and the mechanisms linking sport to agency among youth is needed.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30046-8/fulltext?rss=yes
UK: Johnson government uses coronavirus crisis to seize dictatorial powers
wsws.org | 2020-03-20
Britain's ruling elite is using the enormous danger to public health posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to implement a raft of anti-democratic measures they have long planned to impose.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/20/emer…
'F***ing petrifying': London hospital declares 'critical incident' as Covid-19 crisis cranks up pressure on UK healthcare system
rt.com | 2020-03-20
A hospital in north west London has declared a "critical incident" as it counts those requiring a high level of care, revealing that it doesn't have enough space to treat such people, due to an escalation in coronavirus patients. | In a message sent to its workers on Thursday, Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow said that it has no critical care capacity left, reports the Health Service Journal (HSJ). The UK has seen 177 deaths linked to Covid-19 as of Friday –…
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[Articles] Effects of updated demography, disability weights, and cervical cancer burden on estimates of human papillomavirus vaccination impact at the global, regional, and national levels: a PRIME modelling study
Kaja M Abbas, Kevin van Zandvoort, Marc Brisson, Mark Jit | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
HPV vaccination provides greater health benefits and is more cost-effective than was previously estimated. The demography update, which incorporates population aging, has the largest effect on the health impact estimates. The WHO African region is expected to gain the greatest health benefits and should be prioritised for HPV vaccination.
thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PI…(20)30022-X/fulltext?rss=yes
Coronavirus clean-up: Sanitation workers face increased risk, job loss
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-20
Wherever there is poor sanitation, disease and illness spread. That's why those who work in the waste management industry are just as much an "essential service" right now as are health care, pharmacy, grocery, and restaurant workers. Dealing with all the trash society produces is a dirty and dangerous job even in normal times; during …
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[Editorial] Ebola in DR Congo: getting the job done
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
With the world's focus on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, a good news story receiving far less attention is that of Semida Masika, the last person in DR Congo confirmed to have Ebola virus infection and discharged from care after her recovery on March 4. This important milestone is a remarkable achievement given the insecurity in DR Congo, which led to serious attacks on health-care facilities, workers, and patients, and a continual disabling of the outbreak response.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)30645-0/fulltext?rss=yes
Silent streets: The homeless, the financially desperate, and essential services carry on
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-20
This is the second installment of a two-part series featuring interviews with the workers in the service, health, and other sectors who are still going to their jobs each day during the coronavirus crisis–the ones keeping our society functioning. Part 1 can be read here. ST. LOUIS–They speak with their eyes. Who are they? The …
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Italian army drafted to transport corpses as coronavirus deaths surge in Europe
wsws.org | 2020-03-20
Health systems in Italy, the European epicenter of the disease, are so overwhelmed that they cannot process the corpses of the dead, let alone tend to the sick.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/20/ital…
Italy's Misleading Figures on the C-Virus
repost | indybay.org | 2020-03-20
In addition to false positives from the C-virus testing kits, we have these figures from Italy's Italian Institute of Health (ISS):…
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[Comment] Recognising the substantial burden of neglected pandemics cystic and alveolar echinococcosis
Adriano Casulli | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Cystic echinococcosis and alveolar echinococcosis belong to the diverse group of mainly parasitic, but also bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases currently listed among the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) for which WHO advocates control.1 As with most NTDs, cystic and alveolar echinococcosis affect rural and marginalised communities without voice, often distant from health-care settings. However, and in contrast to most NTDs, the prevalence of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis extends beyond tropical and subtropical regions to include worldwide pastoral and rural communities of medium-high income countries, i…
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What happens if you treat healthy school meals as a public service?
Barnabé Binctin | zcomm.org | 2020-03-20
Despite what the dominant neoliberal dogmas might lead you to think, the municipal level and "good, old fashioned" public service provision can respond to the needs and challenges of today…
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Facing mask shortage, US doctors told to use bandanas
wsws.org | 2020-03-20
The CDC recommends that when facemasks are no longer available, health care workers may have to improvise, using scarves or bandanas to protect themselves when treating patients suspected of or confirmed with COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/20/viru…