Trump Regime Hardliners Want Social Security and Medicare Eliminated
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Social Security and Medicare are insurance programs, not welfare
Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Not only are the coronavirus models being used by WHO and the most national health agencies based on highly dubious methodologies, and not only are the tests being used of wildly different quality, that only indirectly confirm antibodies of a …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-death-numbers/5712605
Bernie Sanders' interview with the Washington Post: The thin gruel of Democratic Party politics
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Sanders glossed over the reality of the health and economic catastrophe facing millions of workers and made no mention of the corporate bailouts for which he has voted in the Senate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/sand…
Cuba Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Its Fight Against COVID-19
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The French organization Cuba Linda has recommended awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuban medical brigades for their efforts to eradicate COVID-19. | "The international community is witnessing the solidarity of health professionals who leave their country to provide services and | …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-fight-against-covid-19/5712594
U.S. hand in recent assaults on Cuba, Venezuela
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
Secretary of State Pompeo loudly condemns Iranian border guards who abused Afghans crossing into Iran. He castigates China's supposed failings with the COVID 19 pandemic. He and President Trump rail against dictatorship they see in Venezuela. They protest Cuba's "slave doctors"
[Research Paper] Mapping of variations in child stunting, wasting and underweight within the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–2017
ISDBICC | thelancet.com | 2020-05-12
CGF indicators have improved in India, but there are substantial variations between the districts in their magnitude and rate of decline, and the inequality between districts has increased in a large proportion of the states. The poor correlation between the national surveys for CGF estimates highlights the need to standardise collection of anthropometric data in India. The district-level trends in this report provide a useful reference for targeting the efforts under NNM to reduce CGF across India and meet the Indian and global targets.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30061-4/fulltext?rss=yes
We don't need empty praise: Nurses' unions demand better protection, rights
Anish R | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
May 12 is globally observed as International Nurses Day. The day marks the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, who revolutionized healthcare and introduced modern nursing. This year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have come out to tell us that they have been left behind. | A virtual press conference held by Public Services International (PSI), on the eve of the Nurses Day, had unions from different parts of the Asia-Pacific region talk about the monumental challenges during the pandemic. According to the South-East Asian Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization, at this time, the Asia-P…
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Essential For Survival: The Need Of Global Solidarity
The People's Collective | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
People are dying, every day. Many people are dying too early. People are dying through war, poverty, disease, lack of healthcare or lack of food. People are dying of starvation. Now, in the year 2020, a new disease is spreading around the globe, killing hundreds of thousands and affecting everybody's life.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/1883297…
South Africa: COVID-19 Crisis Unmasks Dangers of Profit Oriented Healthcare
Salimah Valiani | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The pandemic has shown the need for medical care and interventions that have nothing to do with profit. But not even SA's proposed National Health Insurance would fit the bill. | *** | Covid-19 has been linked to a number of truth …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-dangers-commodified-healthcare/5712640
Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy
Dr. Russell Blaylock | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
"By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain."
Over 5 million people now suffering food insecurity in lockdown
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-12
The UK has been in official COVID-19 lockdown since March 23 and, just like in other countries, the disruption to the economy has hit people already in a more vulnerable position the hardest. These include people on low incomes or in precarious work situations; or who are dealing with long-term physical or mental health conditions. This issue of …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/over-5-million-people-now-suffering-food-insecurity-in-lockdown/
Empowering local services is key to fighting virus, says public health expert
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
A leading public health expert has urged the government to drop its top-down "command-and-control" response to coronavirus (Covid-19) to give the UK the best chance to fight future spikes in infections. | Andrew Lee said empowering local services is the key to tackling the further outbreaks he expects as the country learns to live with Covid-19, but said these surges will be geographically specific. | Dr Lee, who is reader in global public health at Sheffield University, said the key to controlling these outbreaks is speed of response and the current centralised system is too slow to react. | He said: "We just ha…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/12/empowering-local-services-is-key-to-fighting-virus-says-public-health-expert/
Spanish govt orders 2-week quarantine for incoming travelers on May 15-24
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The government in Madrid has ordered a two-week quarantine for all travelers coming into Spain from May 15 in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. | Incoming travelers will have to remain indoors and will only be allowed to go outside for grocery shopping, health center visits and in "situations of need," according to an official order published on Tuesday. | The quarantine has been enforced for all travelers entering the country between May 15 and at least May 24, when the state of emergency is due to end. | The quarantine order can be extended jointly with possible state of emergency extensions…
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump's Increased Water Exports Plan
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
In a statement, Mike Conroy, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA), said, "This is a big victory for west coast salmon fishing families and the communities which are dependent upon healthy salmon stocks throughout the State."
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France's Earlier Detection of COVID-19 Raises Questions on Global Origin
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-12
The emergence of Covid-19 was first reported by the authorities in China on December 31, as acknowledged by the World Health Organization. But that emergence does not necessarily mean the pandemic originated in China. | By January 30, 2020, a WHO situation report cited nearly 8,000 cases of the respiratory disease globally in 18 different countries. The vast majority of the infections at that stage were in China. It has since exploded to four million cases in virtually all 194 nations with the United States hostin…
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UNICEF ships fifth cargo of protective supplies to Iran amid COVID-19 outbreak
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)
In criminal pursuit of profits, Tesla CEO Elon Musk restarts production at California facility
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
In open defiance of local public health authorities, Musk sent 10,000 workers back to work Monday, dramatically increasing the likelihood of the spread of COVID-19 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/tesl…
Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, reported on Sunday that a considerable part of the population will be given tests to detect possible positive cases of COVID-19. | Durán explained that a …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-begin-mass-scale-covid-19-testing/5712578
Singapore plans coronavirus tests for all migrant workers as some businesses reopen
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Singapore plans to test all 323,000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories that have become a hotbed for coronavirus in the city-state, the government said on Tuesday. The island's tally of 24,671 infections is one of Asia's highest, with the vast majority among migrant workers squeezed into often unsanitary dormitories. | "The taskforce has drawn up a plan to allow migrant workers residing in the dormitories… to be progressively cleared so they can be safely returned to work when the time comes," Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said. | Infections in the dormitories had "stabilized," Gan added, with the…
rt.com/newsline/488436-singapore-tests-m…
World Health Organization warns premature return to work risks resurgence of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated his warnings Monday that a premature return to work without adequate measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic risks a second wave of infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/viru…
Iran coronavirus updates: 1,401 new coronavirus cases, 48 deaths
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)
Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body's natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/sc…
Mayo hospitals again receive 'A' grades for patient safety
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
ROCHESTER, Minn.
Latinx Communities & Accessing Reproductive Health Care During COVID-19
PPAFVL | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online via Instagram livestream…
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Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast
Prabir Purkayastha | mronline.org | 2020-05-12
For capital, profits come from disease, not peoples' health. COVID-19 shows the consequence of disease capitalism in a globalized world, the rich–countries or individuals–will not be spared either.
mronline.org/2020/05/12/disease-capitali…
Madagascar Slams WHO for Not Endorsing Its Herbal Cure
Felix Tih | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has slammed the World Health Organization for not endorsing its COVID-19 herbal cure. | Last month, the Malagasy president officially launched Covid-Organics (CVO), an organic herbal concoction, claiming that it can prevent and cure patients suffering from …
globalresearch.ca/madagascar-slams-who-not-endorsing-herbal-cure/5712617
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Maintaining routine vaccine schedules during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the World Health Organization(WHO) says more than 117 million children in 37 countries may be missing out on the lifesaving measles vaccine. The WHO had issued some guidelines to help countries sustain immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…
'Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach' e-tool to help children with mental health concerns
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
ROCHESTER, Minn.
Coronavirus restrained in many parts of Iran: health min
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) –Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday that coronavirus has been restrained in many parts of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/158624/Coronavirus-…
Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Mayo Clinic was awarded a $26 million contract today from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The financial support is for the Expanded Access Program (EAP) for convalescent plasma to fight COVID-19. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…
Sanctions = Health terrorism
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-12
A timely international webinar, sponsored by SanctionsKill.org on May 9, featured representatives from Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela, plus a statement from Zimbabwe addressing the deadly impact of U.S. sanctions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 1,000 people from nearly every continent, including multiple U.S. cities, viewed the event. The . . . | Continue reading Sanctions = Health terrorism at Workers.org…
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Norway dipping into its massive piggy bank to battle Covid-19 crisis
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Norway is set to withdraw $41 billion from its sovereign wealth fund to cushion the blow to the economy from the coronavirus crisis that has resulted in falling oil prices and the highest unemployment in the country in 75 years. | Known officially as the Government Pension Fund, it is the world's biggest wealth fund, worth over $1 trillion. The government announced on Tuesday that it will have to sharply increase spending from the fund, to avoid "sharper downturn and to help healthy companies through the crisis." | According to the Finance Ministry's mid-year fiscal review, the revised budget calls for the use…
rt.com/business/488429-norway-wealth-fun…
US nursing students discuss impact of the pandemic on medical education
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
With overwhelmed hospitals and the immense pressures now exerted on health care workers, the quality of the education of medical and nursing students has been greatly affected.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/nurs…
Herd immunity for Covid-19 is a 'dangerous' concept says World Health Organisation
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has condemned the "dangerous" concept of herd immunity for Covid-19. | Herd immunity is an epidemiological term usually reserved to describe how the population as a whole is protected from a disease depending on the levels of people vaccinated. | For instance, when 90%-95% of the population is vaccinated against measles, this should be enough to protect others who are unable to get an inoculation
'Humans are not herds': WHO thrashes 'brutal arithmetic' of herd immunity to beat Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-12
In the absence of a vaccine, the increasingly discussed idea of beating the novel coronavirus pandemic through achieving so-called herd immunity could be a disastrous miscalculation, a senior WHO official has warned. | "This is a really dangerous, dangerous calculation," Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization's health emergencies program, said at a briefing on Monday. | This idea that maybe countries that had lax measures and haven't done anything will all of a sudden magically reach some herd i…
rt.com/news/488403-who-herd-immunity-cov…
'Current health crisis revealed ideological bankruptcy of our leaders': Marine Le Pen slams govt as France eases quarantine
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The head of the French right-wing opposition party National Rally, Marine Le Pen, has blasted the government for its "series of failures" as it began to relax the Covid-19 quarantine restrictions. | "This health crisis has revealed the ideological bankruptcy with which our leaders have been leading our country: the bankruptcy of the profit logic in public policy, the bankruptcy of ultra-liberalism, Europeanism, and globalism," Le Pen told RFI radio. | We've seen an uninterrupted series of inconsistencies and failures since the start of the crisis, and this is still the case with transport management! But that…
rt.com/news/488437-france-le-pen-critici…
No HEROES here: Democrats seek tax breaks for rich donors & lobbyists in $3 TRILLION Covid-19 wishlist bill
rt.com | 2020-05-12
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposed $3 trillion coronavirus aid bill contains massive tax breaks for wealthy Democrat donors and lobbyists but precious little for working Americans, and has an odd preoccupation with cannabis. | Dubbed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, the bill is gargantuan in scope and size
In criminal pursuit of profits, Tesla CEO Elon Musk restarts production
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
In open defiance of local public health authorities, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unilaterally restarted production Monday at the company's sole US assembly facility in Fremont, California, which employs roughly 10,000 workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/1883299…
The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
The human body has limits. If "temperature plus humidity" is high enough, even a healthy person seated in the shade with plentiful water to drink will suffer severely or likely die. It's the Wet-Bulb Temperature WBT effect. There is an upper limit to human capacity to adapt to excessive global heat when combined with excessive…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/the-wet-bulb…
Facebook paying $52 million settlement to moderators who claim they developed PTSD through work
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Current and former moderators for Facebook will each be receiving $1,000 or more, as part of a settlement in a lawsuit that claimed having to deal with censoring content made them develop post traumatic stress disorder. | The social media giant will be paying out extra to individuals for additional mental health issues stemming from their jobs, such as depression. The settlement, first reported by The Verge, covers 11,250 moderators, while current employees will rec…
rt.com/usa/488483-facebook-settlement-mo…
Iranian researchers attain knowledge of producing corona drugs
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The "Quarantine 15"
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
It's being called the "Quarantine 15" online
Colombia considering guaranteed minimum income as famine looms
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-12
Almost half of Colombia's senators signed off on a proposal to urgently implement a guaranteed minimum income for more than 70% of the population. The radical proposal would temporarily guarantee…
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Colombia considering guaranteed minimum income as famine looms
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-12
Almost half of Colombia's senators signed off on a proposal to urgently implement a guaranteed minimum income for more than 70% of the population. The radical proposal would temporarily guarantee…
colombiareports.com/colombia-considering…
Spring cleaning takes on a new importance during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released reopening guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools and homes. Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, suggests taking a practical approach to spring cleaning. If no one in your household has been infected, he says standard spring cleaning practices …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/sp…
The Important "Plandemic" Documentary that Has Justifiably Gone "Viral"
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The powers-that-be behind the banning of "Plandemic" and the disparaging and slandering of Dr Judy Mikovitz are obviously afraid of something that will expose them for planning something evil. Tyrannical corporate forces, starting with Google and YouTube and the CDC …
globalresearch.ca/important-plandemic-documentary-gone-viral/5712666
Masking your kids during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Do you or don't you wear a mask? If you do, what material is best? And what about children? Questions around masks during the COVID-19 pandemic abound, especially in light of the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all Americans wear masks in public settings. "The direction around face masks has …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…
Hundreds of Children Brain Damaged by the Swine Flu Vaccine to Receive $90 Million in Financial Compensation from UK Government
Mike Adams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
First published in April 2015. The H1N1 vaccine fiasco ordered by the (corrupt) WHO Director General is of relevance to the current debate on a COVID-19 vaccine. | **** | The 2009 swine flu vaccine caused severe brain damage in over 800 …
globalresearch.ca/hundreds-of-children-brain-damaged-by-the-swine-flu-vaccine-to-receive-90-million-in-financial-compensation-from-uk-government/5444329
Why you need to keep your child's vaccine schedule during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Millions of children may be at risk of missing or delaying their routine childhood vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist, says she understands being thoughtful about taking your children outside the home for doctor's visits during this time. "The current situation with the novel coronavirus shows us how scary …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/wh…
Canada teams up with Chinese scientists to co-produce potential Covid-19 vaccine and test it on humans
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has struck a deal with a Chinese biotechnology company developing one of the "most advanced" vaccine candidates against the novel coronavirus to produce and test in Canada. | A vaccine named Ad5-nCoV, which may prove effective against Covid-19, has been developed by China's CanSino Biologics company together with the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, part of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences. It was already approved for the first phase of clinical trials in China in mid-March and is now expected to be tested in Canada too. | Also on rt.com | |
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