OSHA Is Helping Employers Get Away With Underreporting Health Care Worker Deaths
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-13
As Walter Veal cared for residents at the Ludeman Developmental Center in suburban Chicago, he saw the potential future of his grandson, who has autism. | So he took it on himself not just to bathe and feed the residents, which was part of the job, but also to cut their hair, run to the store to buy their favorite body wash and barbecue for them on holidays. | "They were his second family," said his wife, Carlene Veal. | Even after COVID-19 struck in mid-March and cases began spreading th…
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President Luis Arce Travels to Brazil for Medical Check-up
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-13
Bolivian President Luis Arce departed on Sunday morning to Brazil for a routine appointment, temporarily leaving the presidency in the hands of Vice President David Choquehuanca until Tuesday. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Lower Chamber Passes a Bill Taxing Large Fortunes | "Today, I am absent from Bolivia until Tuesday, December 15, to carry out my routine health check-up. I thank the Bolivian people for the love and well wishes that they have sent me," Arce tweeted. | Before Arce's trip t…
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AZ educators organize sickout amid highest rate of COVID-19
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-13
Tucson, AZ – When the Chandler Unified School District governing board decided to stay with in-person instruction as Arizona continues to experience another spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths, some educators organized their resistance in the form of a sickout. Over 100 educators in CUSD called in sick on Friday, December 11 to express their opposition to the negligent board. The local union, Chandler Education Association (CEA) had issued a number of demands that include: educator representation on the district COVID committee, use of the more stringent county health metrics, and creating a COVID Task Force of ed…
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From TMAP to Warp Speed: How Big Pharma Algorithms Fast-Track Unapproved Drugs and Vaccines
John Klyczek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-13
Five of the pharmaceutical companies developing COVID-19 vaccines through the USA's Operation Warp Speed have paid out "billions" (over the years) to settle lawsuits charging them with fraud related to "off-label" marketing of atypical antipsychotics and antidepressants that were mandated …
globalresearch.ca/tmap-warp-speed-big-pharma-algorithms-fast-track-unapproved-drugs-vaccines/5732060

"There is no vaccine to save the planet"
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres | indybay.org | 2020-12-13
In the Arctic, 2020 has seen exceptional warmth, with temperatures more than 3 degrees Celsius above average – and more than 5 degrees in northern Siberia. Arctic sea ice in October was the lowest on record – and now re-freezing has been the slowest on record. Greenland ice has continued its long-term decline, losing an average of 278 gigatons a year.
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[World Report] Humanitarian access deal for Tigray
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
Humanitarian groups will be allowed into Tigray, Ethiopia, where conflict has displaced thousands and strained health services. Sharmila Devi reports.
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Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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[Correspondence] Cardiovascular preventive strategies are not conflicting
Rod Jackson, Sue Wells, Anthony Rodgers | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
We agree with Michael Brainin and Karen Sliwa1 about the urgent need to improve the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease but would like to correct some other points they raise. Brainin and Sliwa suggest that we2 promoted high-risk approaches over population-based approaches; however, we stated that "Too often debate about prevention of cardiovascular disease is polarised between opposing evangelists for the high-risk and population-wide approaches. An agnostic approach based on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness is preferable.
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[Correspondence] Association of SARS-CoV-2 renal tropism with acute kidney injury
Kay Weng Choy | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
In their report on the association of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) renal tropism with acute kidney injury, Fabian Braun and colleagues1 do not appear to have provided evidence for acute kidney injury as defined in the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guidelines–that is, an increase in serum creatinine (SCr) by 26 ∑5 Œºmol/L or more within 48 h; an increase in SCr to 1 ∑5 times or more from baseline, which is known or presumed to have occurred within the previous 7 days; or a urine volume of less than 0 ∑5 ml/kg per h f…
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[Correspondence] One Health or Planetary Health for pandemic prevention? — Authors' reply
John H Amuasi, Andrea S Winkler | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
One Health recognises the fundamental interconnectedness and complex interdependence of all living species and their shared environment.1 Thus, a view that One Health is focused on human–animal interaction alone, primarily addresses the risk of zoonotic events, and that these events occur as a result of urbanisation, land usage, and increasing human population density, therefore suggesting that One Health is sufficient to address pandemic risks, is flawed. Nevertheless, there is abundant evidence that disease agents of zoonotic origin account for over half of all emerging or re-emerging human infectious dis…
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How could a no-deal Brexit affect UK healthcare?
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-12
Preparations are already being made, with the stockpiling of medicines and provision of alternative freight routes aimed at ensuring as little disruption as possible to healthcare in the event of a no-deal Brexit.Here is a look at some of the main issues: — Medical supplies and equipmentMedical suppliers have been encouraged to try and stockpile six weeks' worth of stock, with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) describing such actions as a "key part of contingency plans".In a letter to medicines and medical product suppliers, the department advised that having extra stocks "provides a further buf…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/12/12/how-could-a-no-deal-brexit-affect-uk-healthcare/

Hospital capacity in the US severely strained as coronavirus infections continue to surge
wsws.org | 2020-12-12
A recent report by the US Department of Health and Human Services showed that as many as 200 hospitals had reached full capacity last week. One-third of all hospitals reported their ICU occupancy was above 90 percent.
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[Articles] Genome-edited, donor-derived allogeneic anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cells in paediatric and adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: results of two phase 1 studies
Reuben Benjamin, Charlotte Graham, Deborah Yallop, Agnieszka Jozwik, Oana C Mirci-Danicar, Giovanna Lucchini, Danielle Pinner, Nitin Jain, Hagop Kantarjian, Nicolas Boissel, Marcela V Maus, Matthew J Frigault, André Baruchel, Mohamad Mohty, Athos Gianella-Borradori, Florence Binlich, Svetlana Balandraud, Fabien Vitry, Elisabeth Thomas, Anne Philippe, Sylvain Fouliard, Sandra Dupouy, Ibtissam Marchiq, Maria Almena-Carrasco, Nicolas Ferry, Sylvain Arnould, Cyril Konto, Paul Veys, Waseem Qasim, UCART19 Group | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12