Imperial COVID-19 vaccine team secures £22.5 million support
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-22
The UK government will provide £22.5 million to fast-track Imperial's development of a coronavirus vaccine.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197017/imperial-covid-19-vaccine-team-secures-225
Trump to Suspend Immigration to the U.S. Due to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
The U.S. President Donald Trump Monday night announced that he will sign a decree to temporarily suspend the entry of immigrants to his country while his administration faces the health and economic effects triggered by the COVID-19. | RELATED: | Trump Orders Deportation of Migrant Children Due to Coronavirus | "In light of the attack from the invisi…
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Trump Tweets Plan to Suspend All Immigration to US
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-21
President Donald Trump declared in a tweet late Monday night that he intends to sign an executive order "temporarily" banning all immigration to the U.S. amid the Covid-19 outbreak, an announcement rights groups condemned as a shameful attempt to scapegoat immigrants that will do nothing to safeguard either Americans' health or jobs. | "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT Ameri…
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COVID-19 lockdown leaves Gulf states' migrant workers penniless in unsanitary conditions
wsws.org | 2020-04-21
Unable to return home because of travel restrictions or their countries' refusal to accept them, migrants are left to fester in lockdown, confined to overcrowded, unsanitary dormitories without access to either health care or help.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/21/gulf…
Anti-Immigrant Movement Has History of Politicizing Disease
Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-21
COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, is the latest disease the nativist movement has politicized to demonize immigrants.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/21/anti-…
Video: COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the Solution
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. In developing countries, poverty and despair prevail. | While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-closing-down-the-economy-is-not-the-solution/5710221
The Gates Foundation's Vaccination Activism
Eric Wagner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
In the corona crisis, billionaire Bill Gates makes a high-profile appearance as a vaccination activist. The essence: a vaccine is the solution, it is only a matter of implementation. According to Gates, the G20 should now "address the logistics of …
globalresearch.ca/gates-foundation-vaccination-activism/5710314
San Leandro Police Execute Black Man in Walmart
APTP | indybay.org | 2020-04-21
As white nationalists gather across the country wielding assault rifles in protest of public health mandates with no response from police, people of color experiencing apparent mental health crises continue to be shot and killed because of egregious and brutally racist law enforcement practices.
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San Leandro Police Execute Black Man in Walmart
APTP | indybay.org | 2020-04-21
As white nationalists gather across the country wielding assault rifles in protest of public health mandates with no response from police, people of color experiencing apparent mental health crises continue to be shot and killed because of egregious and brutally racist law enforcement practices.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/20/1883253…
US: Nurses Protest Over Lack of Resources
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
The U.S. Nurses Union protested Tuesday in front of the White House. The health workers demonstrated in honor of the coworkers they lost due to the pandemic. They also demanded better biosafety resources. | RELATED: | 'Coronavirus Did Not Come out of a Laboratory', WHO Holds | According to Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director of the National Nurses Union (NNU), nurses are asking for better Personal Protection Equipment. Nurses will read aloud the names of those who lost their lives bec…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-nurses-protes…
Peruvian Official Demands Attention of Indigenous Communities
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
The Peruvian Ombudsman's Office in the Uyacali province recommended the government implement regional measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in indigenous communities. | RELATED: | Peru: Unions Protest Against Government's Economic Measures | Uyacali's public service head, Hugo Pari, requested attention and health guarantees for native communities, especially the shipibo-konibo group. This petition upsurges after two indigenous tested positive for COVID-19 in Coronel Portillo pro…
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Kentucky Sees Highest Single-Day Increase in COVID-19 Cases Days After Protests
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-21
Protests against stay-in-place measures have occurred in a number of states across the nation, in spite of the fact that some health experts are saying such demonstrations could themselves lead to an increase in the spread of COVID-19. | While it's not possible to directly link the protests with a spike in infections, at least one state where such events ha…
truthout.org/articles/kentucky-sees-high…
Coronavirus and the crisis of African American human rights
Ajamu Baraka | mronline.org | 2020-04-21
With the overwhelming evidence that the capitalist system is fundamentally antithetical to the realization of human rights, including what should be an elementary right–access to healthcare–the presidency of Donald J. Trump has been a godsend for the capitalist rulers.
mronline.org/2020/04/21/coronavirus-and-…
De Blasio promises a lavish PARADE for healthcare workers, but history says this could be a bad idea
rt.com | 2020-04-21
New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio has promised to treat his healthcare workers to a ticker-tape parade once lockdown is lifted. Commenters have blasted the blundering mayor for "basically guaranteeing a second outbreak." | De Blasio's response to the coronavirus outbreak in New York has been marred by one blunder after another. In March, he accused President Trump of "playing catch-up" with the virus; yet, two days earlier, he had told New Yorkers to "go about your lives" as normal. That same week he told a radio host that asymptomatic carriers can't transmit the disease, refused to cancel the city's St Pat…
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De Blasio promises a lavish PARADE for healthcare workers, but history says this could be a bad idea
rt.com | 2020-04-21
New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio has promised to treat his healthcare workers to a ticker-tape parade once lockdown is lifted. Commenters have blasted the blundering mayor for "basically guaranteeing a second outbreak." | De Blasio's response to the coronavirus outbreak in New York has been marred by one blunder after another. In March, he accused President Trump of "playing catch-up" with the virus; yet, two days earlier, he had told New Yorkers to "go about your lives" as normal. That same week he told a radio host that asymptomatic carriers can't transmit the disease, refused to cancel the city's St Pat…
rt.com/usa/486501-new-york-de-blasio-par…
Czechs to test 27,000 people for coronavirus antibodies
rt.com | 2020-04-21
The Czech Republic will test 27,000 people for coronavirus antibodies, to gain information on how many came into contact with the infection. The study, wider in scope than others made in European countries and the US in recent weeks, will start on Wednesday and involve all age groups, officials said on Tuesday. | Four regions were picked, from areas that were little affected by the virus to ones highly affected, said Ladislav Dusek, the director of the republic's Institute of Health Information and Statistics. | Results, expected in early May, should give the government a clearer view of how many asymptomatic…
rt.com/newsline/486470-czech-test-antibo…
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Critical care units prepare for COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
An intensive care unit (ICU) is a special unit in a hospital where patients who are very ill can be under constant supervision by their health care team. The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed ICU and critical care units in hot spots where the virus had spread widely. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Daniel Brown, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…
Fake 'nurses' propaganda tweets distract from further government coronavirus shambles
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-04-21
Over 100 fake twitter accounts of 'nurses', offering support to the Cabinet's coronavirus (Covid-19) strategy, have apparently appeared, then suddenly disappeared. There has been speculation on Twitter as to their origin.This distraction comes at a time when details of government cock-ups regarding the outbreak appear almost daily.Fake accounts: A claim has emerged that someone, either an employee with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), or via a contracted "marketing agency", created 128 fake NHS twitter accounts. It's alleged that postings on those accounts came from one person and "4 assign…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/04/21/fake-nurses-propaganda-tweets-distract-from-further-government-coronavirus-shambles/
'Virus may have peaked' in Stockholm, but danger isn't over, Swedish health agency says
rt.com | 2020-04-21
Around one-third of Stockholm's million people will have had the novel coronavirus by the start of May, according to Sweden's public health agency. The disease may have already passed its peak in the capital, it said on Tuesday. Stockholm accounts for around half of Sweden's 15,300 confirmed cases of Covid-19, and a high proportion of its 1,765 deaths, including among very elderly people living in care homes, Reuters said. | The health agency said its modeling suggested the rate of new infections in the city had peaked on April 15, although a decline was not yet evident from its data.
rt.com/newsline/486486-peak-stockholm-sw…
Brazil: Bolsonaro Refuses to Comment on COVID-19 Death Toll
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
"I am not a gravedigger," Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the press on Monday when asked about the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in the South American country. | RELATED: | Brazil's Bolsonaro Wants Borders Reopened, Says Worth Risk | The controversial response was given at the entrance of the Alvorada Palace, the official residence of the Presidency, according to local media. | The press question came after the Brazilian Health Ministry corrected an error in the death…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-bolsonaro…
Young American Scholars: Give Them Their $6.25 Billion Already
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-21
While small business owners and individual workers are well aware that the first round of fiscal stimulus is not enough to keep them going through the COVID-19 pandemic, America's college students are just now discovering that they are owed $6.25 billion in federal emergency relief funding to help them cover "food, housing, course materials, technology, health care, and child care."
counterpunch.org/2020/04/21/young-americ…
What to do when anxiety affects your sleep
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
While anxiety around COVID-19 may be affecting your sleep, getting a good night's sleep is key to protecting your health. In these days where there is high anxiety around COVID-19, getting your sleep isn't easy. But a good night's sleep is a key factor in maintaining your health and protecting your immune system. "Sleep is …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/wh…
Baykeeper's Healthy Bay Challenge
Lea Pfeffer | indybay.org | 2020-04-21
You can participate anywhere and anytime until May 31, 2020!
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WHO worker dies as vehicle carrying Covid-19 samples is attacked in Myanmar
rt.com | 2020-04-21
A World Health Organization driver was killed in an attack on a "marked UN vehicle" transporting some "surveillance samples" through Myanmar's troubled Rakhine province, where fighting resumed several days ago. | Myanmar, where the tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 119, saw "a security incident" in the Minbya township of the country's westernmost Rakhine state, a local United Nations office confirmed on Tuesday. | It said the vehicle, bearing UN credentials, has been transporting "Covid-19 sur…
rt.com/news/486415-who-driver-killed-mya…
Global 'call to arms' to hunt down tax evaders as C19 craters gov't revenues
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-21
As emergency coronavirus medical and social programs lay bare economic and social deficiencies around the world, experts are calling for a more forceful tax response to the crisis. They said the dramatic spike in jobless claims combined with the vast additional burden on health systems should be a tax call-to-arms for governments internationally. The pandemic has highlighted global reliance …
truepublica.org.uk/global/global-call-to-arms-to-hunt-down-tax-evaders-as-c19-craters-govt-revenues/
COVID-19: What to do if you develop symptoms while away from home
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
In many areas of the U.S. and around the world, people are being told to stay home and avoid travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, travel restrictions may not apply to employees of critical industries, such as trucking, public health professionals, financial services, and food supply. So what should someone do if they develop …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/co…
Denmark to allow gatherings of 500 people from May 10
rt.com | 2020-04-21
Denmark's Ministry of Health has announced it will allow public gatherings of up to 500 people for the foreseeable future, as the country tentatively eases lockdown measures. | Starting on May 10, authorities will lift the ban on gatherings of more than 10 people which had been in place. The new limit will last until at least September 1 this year, reports state broadcaster TV2. | The Ministry of Health insisted that it would continue to monitor the situation…
rt.com/news/486403-denmark-gatherings-50…
Singapore extends partial lockdown until June 1
rt.com | 2020-04-21
Singapore has extended by four weeks until June 1 a partial lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tuesday. The measures, which include the closures of most workplaces and schools, were initially set to run from April 7 until May 4. | The city-state on Tuesday confirmed 1,111 new coronavirus cases, taking the total infections to 9,125, Reuters said. | Most of the cases were migrant workers living in dormitories
Army of Mayo employees come together to identify COVID-19 exposures within hours
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Selected Articles: COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the Solution
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Video: COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the Solution | By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 21, 2020 | While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-covid-19-closing-down-economy-not-solution/5710337
'Coronavirus Did Not Come out of a Laboratory', WHO Holds
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday denied that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory and clarified that the pathogen originated in animals. | RELATED: | WHO Asks Govts to Review COVID-19 Statistics ASAP | "All the evidence we have suggests that the virus was of animal origin and did not undergo genetic manipulation," the WHO spokeswoman F…
telesurenglish.net/news/Coronavirus-Did-…
COVID-19: Will social distancing be the new normal? A Mayo Clinic expert discusses what the future might look like
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
As some states look toward relaxing restrictions and social distancing measures, such as stay-at-home orders, new projections suggest social distancing may need to continue through 2022. Researchers predict that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will return every winter, and that prolonged or intermittent social distancing strategies could limit the strain on health care systems. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/co…
How The Indian State Of Kerala Is Flattening It's Covid Curve
Yadul Krishna | zcomm.org | 2020-04-21
iI's not just the administrative skills alone that have made Kerala effectively tackle the virus, but the presence of a strong public health care system and a stronger intervention of government mechanisms, handled by a pro-people government…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-the-indian-sta…
Fighting for health, for us and the planet
Editor | workers.org | 2020-04-21
Workers World celebrates the historic 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Launched by a mass outpouring of demonstrators in 1970, this day continues to mobilize scientific and coordinated efforts to defend the health of our planet and of us who live here. Earth Day is still urgently needed as a call . . . | Continue reading Fighting for health, for us and the planet at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47846/?utm_source=rs…
Health Ministry confirms 1,297 new COVID-19 infections
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-21
TEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA)
A delivery rider accuses Deliveroo of not taking workers' health seriously
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2020-04-21
Over the last few weeks of the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown some of us have been working from home, or have been unable to do our usual jobs. | But many others have been working as usual, despite the risk of coronavirus infection. NHS workers and carers have been celebrated in the media as heroes. But it's not just health workers who are still at work: couriers, post-office staff, transport workers, and people involved in the food supply chain are all still working too. | This exclusive Canary interview looks at how so…
thecanary.co/exclusive/2020/04/21/a-delivery-rider-accuses-deliveroo-of-not-taking-workers-health-seriously/
A prescription for health care justice
Workers World staff | workers.org | 2020-04-21
After much discussion, the health care workers caucus
Chile: Social Leaders Demand Real Emergency Aid For COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
Political party leaders, mayors, deputies and other social representatives sent an open letter to Chile's President Sebastian Piñera, demanding real help for the people in the face of the economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19. | RELATED: | Chile: Teachers Reject Resuming School Year Over COVID-19 | With more than 170 signatures, the letter requests a Basic Emergency Income, which guarantees economic sustainability for the millions of families affected by the crisis.
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-social-lea…
Colombia: Duque Announces Isolation Extension Until May
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-21
Colombian President Ivan Duque announced Monday a quarantine extension until May 11. The president stated that there are other preventive measures facing the ongoing COVID-19 health emergency. | RELATED: | Colombia: Not Even the Pandemic Halts Killing of Social Leaders | "We have decided to extend the mandatory preventive isolation initially until May 11, giving room to other sectors that can participate with responsibility," said Duque in a communication. The president previo…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-duke-an…
AFGE: Feds fail to protect 290,000 workers from coronavirus
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-21
WASHINGTON–The top federal workers union, the Government Employees (AFGE), formally charged the Veterans Affairs Department and the Bureau of Prisons, with endangering the health and safety of 290,000 workers by exposing them, without protection, to patients
Baykeeper's Healthy Bay Challenge
Lea Pfeffer | indybay.org | 2020-04-21
You can participate anywhere and anytime until May 31, 2020!
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Blame the Covid-19 failure on your governments, not on China
Davide Mastracci | indybay.org | 2020-04-21
The anti-Chinese narrative is based on false statements and serves to distract people from the failure of neoliberalism. Build hospitals and make health care universal! Cut military spending in half! Testing, not imprisonment, abuse and neglect!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/20/1883251…
No confirmation needed? CNN fans rumors about Kim Jong-un's alleged health issues, reports he's in 'grave danger' after 'surgery'
rt.com | 2020-04-21
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is extremely unwell after undergoing surgery, CNN reported, citing a nameless US government source. Rumors of Kim's alleged health scare have been dismissed by both Seoul and Beijing, however. | "The US is monitoring intelligence that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, is in grave danger after a surgery, according to a US official with direct knowledge," CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto reported on Monday evening. | The scoop came as Daily NK, a Seoul-based outlet, reported that Kim had undergone a "cardiovascular surgical procedure" on April 12 and is bel…
rt.com/news/486390-kim-north-korea-surge…
Young American Scholars: Give Them Their $6.25 Billion Already
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-21
While small business owners and individual workers are well aware that the first round of fiscal stimulus is not enough to keep them going through the COVID-19 pandemic, America's college students are just now discovering that they are owed $6.25 billion in federal emergency relief funding to help them cover "food, housing, course materials, technology, health care, and child care."
counterpunch.org/2020/04/21/young-americ…
Australian government joins Washington's anti-China campaign over pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-04-21
The Australian government, backed by the Labor opposition, is positioning itself as the Trump administration's attack dog, repeating its unsubstantiated claims against China and the World Health Organisation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/21/aust…
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Managing stress and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced changes to daily life, and disrupted normal routines at work, at school, and at home. Physical isolation can negatively affect mental health, and constant news coverage can bring fear and anxiety about the disease. How can you best cope in these uncertain times? On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…
Over 100 health and care workers have died from COVID-19 in the UK
wsws.org | 2020-04-21
The gruesome total is more than double the number of deaths recorded by the Conservative government, which only includes fatalities of those directly employed by the National Health Service.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/21/nurs…
Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Amid a health crisis that has made Brazil the country with the largest number of COVID-19 cases in Latin America, President Jair Bolsonaro's administration closed its embassy and consulates in Venezuela on Friday. | At least 38 people boarded in …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-closes-brazil-embassy-consulates-venezuela/5710303
Quebec nurses expose shortages that enabled COVID-19 to ravage long-term care facilities
wsws.org | 2020-04-21
Nurses spoke out against the horrific conditions they and other health workers face in fighting the pandemic in long-term care facilities and insisted these are the product of decades of austerity.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/21/quin…
The Mental Health Crisis Created By Ongoing UK Welfare Reforms
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-21
By Mo Stewart