(2020-12-19). The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality. dissidentvoice.org 
The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was 'the great equalizer' should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and inequalities in our societies. That said, the treatment of the disease should not be a repeat of the same shameful scenario. For an entire …
(2020-12-19). VIDEO: "Honest Journalism" Then and Now: The CBS Report on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine. globalresearch.ca "The flu season is upon us. Which type will we worry about this year, and what kind of shots will we be told to take? Remember the swine flu scare of 1976? That was the year the U.S. government told …
(2020-12-19). Former Pfizer Vice-President Dr. Michael Yeadon Questions Company's Vaccine 'Breakthrough' Spin. globalresearch.ca Yesterday Pfizer announced to much media fanfare that it has a breakthrough in the search for a reliable COVID-19 vaccine claiming studies showed it can prevent 90% of people contracting the virus. But respected former vice-president of Pfizer, Dr. Michael …
(2020-12-19). "COVID Vaccines" and "Genetically Modified Humans" globalresearch.ca The main video has been removed. This report was first published by Global Research on July 19, 2020 | In the following video, Dr. Carrie Madaj questions what "it is to be human". Why? Because the so-called "COVID" vaccines deploy recombinant …
(2020-12-19). [Comment] 2020 Wakley Prize: space for compassion. thelancet.com We were moved by the many thought-provoking entries to the 2020 Wakley Prize Essay competition.1 Essays explored some of the tough clinical experiences and uncertainties of this pandemic year. They gave us insights into the unique challenges health professionals faced in a gruelling year, and how health-care workers have risen to meet them. We read accounts of isolation, loneliness, and despair. But there were also stories of kindness, joy, dedication, progress, and hope, even in the face of a year of fear and loss.
(2020-12-19). [World Report] Caribbean rainy season batters health care. thelancet.com This year's rains, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, are putting immense strain on the health systems in Colombia and elsewhere. Joe Parkin Daniels reports from Bogotá.
(2020-12-19). [Perspectives] Highlights 2020: framing health stories. thelancet.com Despite the difficulties of this pandemic year, The Lancet received fascinating and varied entries for our Highlights 2020 photography competition. 15 striking photographs were selected for publication in this issue. Each picture captures a unique moment, highlighting a health story.
(2020-12-19). [Comment] Offline: The lessons of smallpox eradication for COVID-19. thelancet.com The announcement last week that Rochelle Walensky is President-elect Joe Biden's choice to lead the much-eroded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was universally welcomed by the US medical community. A respected clinician and scientist, as well as a skilled communicator, she has every prospect of restoring credibility and leadership to the nation's foremost public health agency. Walensky recently co-authored an important paper in Health Affairs, which examined the future determinants of a successful COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
(2020-12-19). [Editorial] Science during COVID-19: where do we go from here? thelancet.com The emergence of COVID-19 has indelibly marked science and medicine this year. Advances in epidemiology, clinical care, prevention, treatment, and the speed of vaccine development have been unprecedented, driven by global collaboration and data sharing. None of that would have been possible without the tireless work, sacrifice, dedication, and insight of scientists and researchers worldwide, from those working in laboratories to the principal investigators of clinical trials and everyone in between.
(2020-12-19). [World Report] 2020: a year in review. thelancet.com While one health issue has dominated the news in 2020, Farhat Yaqub looks back at some of the year's most important non-COVID-19 stories in health and medicine.
(2020-12-19). Covid-19 in Iranian nurses' eyes. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) — These pictures depict the coronavirus pandemic in the eyes of Iranian nurses, who have been coping with the lethal disease in the past months.
(2020-12-19). Workers Suffer As US Pandemic Relief Bill Goes Nowhere In Congress. popularresistance.org Not only has the coronavirus pandemic taken a staggering toll in terms of loss of life in the United States but has also caused social and economic dislocation for the working class on a massive scale. The impact of this crisis is likely to last far beyond the distribution of a vaccine. | When the pandemic began to spiral out of control in March, Will Harris was one of the millions of retail workers who lost their income. Harris, who worked two part-time jobs, said that as the months of unemployment dragged on, "I couldn't afford all my groceries when I needed them… I felt bad for spending on anything even if i…
(2020-12-19). There is no vaccine for climate catastrophe. zcomm.org Humanity's failure to collectively respond to the pandemic presents us with a fast motion view of our inability to combat the ongoing climate crisis…
(2020-12-19). UAW lectures workers on "practicing gratitude" and keeping up "healthy habits" this Christmas. wsws.org The UAW at FCA had the audacity to post advice for its members on coping with stress during the pandemic.
(2020-12-19). Tne Vaccine Court, RFK Jr., Anthony Fauci, Covid-19 And Animals. indybay.org The unconstitutional actions of the US' Vaccine Court | Robert F Kennedy Jr. Vs Anthony Fauci | Animals Can Catch Covid-19…
(2020-12-19). Malaysia set for first Covid-19 vaccines in February. laprensalatina.com Bangkok, Dec 19 (efe-epa).- Malaysian authorities on Saturday said they expected to receive the country's first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in February, the state news agency Bernama reported. The Asian country has some 12.8 million doses of the jab on order so far, enough to cover 6.4 million people, roughly 20% of the total population. …
(2020-12-19). 9-year-old girl's asthma death officially linked to air pollution in unprecedented coroner ruling. nationofchange.org "Toxic air pollution is a public health crisis, especially for our children, and the inquest underlined yet again the importance of pushing ahead with bold policies such as expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone to inner London."
(2020-12-19). How Georgia voters are transforming America's future. nationofchange.org They want to help the new administration put America on the path to health and shared prosperity.
(2020-12-19). [Correspondence] Renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We disagree with Vincenzo Sepe and colleagues' comment about the timing and prescription of renal replacement therapy (RRT). In the randomised controlled trials included in our systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis,1 the protocol was precise; it mandated starting RRT as soon as Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes acute kidney injury stage 2 or 3 was present in the early strategy, and it had stringent criteria for initiating RRT in the delayed strategy, such as severe hyperkalaemia or acidosis, among others.
(2020-12-19). Health Care and Black Lives Matter. zcomm.org "The backlash in which white people proclaimed All Lives Matter clearly had no understanding of the issue. Blacks weren't saying that Black lives mattered more, they were emphasizing that, the way the system works now, Black Lives Matter … Less."
(2020-12-19). Matt Hancock just delivered a 'Scrooge letter' to nurses over their pay. thecanary.co Health secretary Matt Hancock has
(2020-12-18). Photos: Pelosi, McConnell Receive Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine. sputniknews.com The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 11 issued the first emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine to a drug produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. US health care workers began receiving the vaccine this week.
(2020-12-18). Colombia: Two Gunpowder Explosions in a Single Day. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, an explosion at a gunpowder depot killed a 16-year-old boy and injured 17 people in the Libano township in Colombia's Tolima department. | RELATED: | Tolima's Health Secretary Jorge Bolivar confirmed that three minors were injured, adding that the patients have very delicate burns and serious contusions and blows. The explosion occurred at 4.40 pm local time. | Authorities also confirmed another explosion recorded in an ill…
(2020-12-18). Jessica Martinez on Gutting Worker Protections, Mitch Stoltz on Breaking Up Big Tech. fair.org 
(photo: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) | This week on CounterSpin: More than 308,000 US women, men and children have died of Covid-19. That devastating toll has been borne disproportionately by Black and brown people in dangerous occupations and at the short end of an unequal healthcare system. Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers' health and safety a "tradeoff" for Covid relief. We talk about efforts to gut worker protections under the guise of economic support with Jessica Martinez, co-executive director of…
(2020-12-18). More signs of weaker economy point to a 'double-dip' recession. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Last week the U.S. economy showed more signs of weakness as retail sales in November fell for the second month in a row and new claims for regular state unemployment insurance and the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance rose for the second week in a row. These are more signs of a weaker economy that point to a 'double-dip' recession. | Retail sales, including online orders, fell 1.1% in November. The October figure was revised down from a 0.3% gain to a 0.1% loss. Sales over the Thanksgiving weekend, which included Cyber Monday, were down 14% as compared to a year earlier. The slide in sales i…
(2020-12-18). WHO sending Covid-hunting team to Wuhan, China in January to probe origins of pandemic. rt.com 
Investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) will head to China in January in a bid to unearth the origins of the coronavirus, officials said on Friday, more than a year after the first infections were reported there. | The United Nations health agency will send an international team of up to 15 scientists to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus is first thought to have spread from a wet market. | The WHO's health emergencies chief, Dr Michael Ryan, said the researchers would travel to China in the first week of January, visiting Wuhan, which he said was the "purpose of the mission," as well…
(2020-12-18). Two billion COVID vaccine doses secured, WHO says end of pandemic is in sight. news.un.org The end of the pandemic is in sight but we must not let our guard down, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as he welcomed the news that the global vaccine partnership COVAX has lined up almost two billion doses of existing and candidate vaccines for use worldwide.
(2020-12-18). "Unhealthy Americans". Best Healthcare For the Rich. Highest Child Poverty Among Developed Nations. globalresearch.ca The world's richest country USA has one of the least healthy populations. | Among developed nations, Americans have shorter lifespans, more illnesses and injuries — despite around double the per capita amount spent on healthcare compared to other developed countries. | In …
(2020-12-18). Because 'It Is the American Healthcare System,' Experts Anticipate Surprise Medical Bills for Covid-19 Vaccines. commondreams.org "The vaccine must be free and available for everyone," said Medicare for All advocate Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "But we also need to fix a broken, for-profit healthcare system that allows loopholes and surprise bills to happen." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-12-18). Sunday 1/24: 2021 Medicare for All Strategy Conference (Day 2). indybay.org Online conference…
(2020-12-18). Byhalia Pipeline protest: "We do not want this pipeline" liberationnews.org 
Cutting across some of the most marginalized neighborhoods in the city, the Byhalia Connection Pipeline threatens the health and safety of thousands of Memphians, mostly Black.
(2020-12-18). Mass Starvation Looms as Yemen's Currency Nears Historic Freefall. mintpressnews.com 
TAIZ, YEMEN- — Both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seem to be doing everything in their power to prevent an end to the suffering in Yemen. Even those living in areas under the total control of the wealthy Gulf monarchies are facing levels of devastation that harken back to the total destruction of European cities during World War II. | With no functioning government to provide residents with even basic assistance and facing a collapsed economy amid a famine that could soon beset all of Yemen according to the United Nations, the collapse of Yemen's rial, particularly in Saudi-coalition-controlled a…
(2020-12-18). Hey, Hey, FDA! How Many Americans Have You Killed Since May? counterpunch.org As I write this on December 17, the US Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is meeting to review a COVID-19 vaccine developed by biotech company Moderna. Likely outcome: The panel will recommend approval of the vaccine to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn. My question: What took so long,
(2020-12-18). When the Elderly and Frail Die after Receiving the COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca CNN has the story. And it's quite a story: "Why vaccinate our most frail? Odd vote out shows the dilemma", December 4. [1] | "The vote to recommend long-term care residents be among the first to receive Covid-19 vaccinations was not …
(2020-12-18). Pfizer Helped Create the Global Patent Rules. Now It's Using Them to Undercut Access to the Covid Vaccine. commondreams.org The pharmaceutical company is opposing a proposal at the World Trade Organization to expand vaccine access to poor countries. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-12-18). Health and Wealth in India — Farmers' Lives Matter. globalresearch.ca To appreciate what is happening to agriculture and farmers in India, we must first understand how the development paradigm has been subverted. Development used to be about breaking with colonial exploitation and radically redefining power structures. Today, neoliberal dogma masquerades …
(2020-12-18). Donald Trump's herd immunity: Who's the real "enemy of the people"?>. salon.com It's clearer than ever that Trump was happy to see people die. His assault on public health can't be forgotten…
(2020-12-17). Hoarding the Jabs: The Inequalities of Vaccine Distribution. globalresearch.ca Public health is no excuse to keep business and patriotism at bay. Not a very humanitarian sentiment, but then again, healing the sick and preserving the healthy can become parochial, nationalist objectives. The least convincing language of the pandemic has …
(2020-12-17). "Planned Surveillance and Control by Global Technocrats: A Big-Picture Look at the Current Pandemic Beneficiaries," globalresearch.ca An article by Children's Health Defense on how the pandemic facilitated a financial, tech, biopharmaceutical and military-intelligence push for centralized, technocratic control has been accepted by the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research. | *** | "Planned Surveillance and Control …
(2020-12-17). "No Reason to Let Up" on Masks as U.S. COVID-19 Deaths & Infections Skyrocket During Vaccine Rollout. democracynow.org 
As the "very exciting" rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution gets underway in the United States, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, says the country is still experiencing "astronomical" numbers of new infections and deaths. "We've just had a federal government that has given up on any efforts to try and control the pandemic," he says. "What we have to do is get through the next few months with basic public health measures until vaccines become widely available and widely adopted. Until that time, there is no reason to let up whatsoever."
(2020-12-17). China, Christmas, and the Coronavirus. cepr.net As we hunker down this holiday season, waiting for our vaccines, or at least until the diffusion of the vaccines has slowed the spread of the pandemic, it's worth thinking for a moment about an opportunity lost. Specifically, we lost an opportunity to have worldwide cooperation in the development of vaccines, bringing in not only …
(2020-12-17). First Glitches Emerge in COVID-Vax Rollout; Alaska Health Worker Suffers 'Serious Allergic Reaction'. globalresearch.ca A healthcare worker in Alaska was hospitalized on Tuesday with a 'serious allergic reaction' after receiving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, according to the The person, who had no known drug allergies, was still in the hospital on …
(2020-12-17). . salon.com "It's a huge morale booster," a frontline worker told Salon…
(2020-12-17). Selected Articles: Vaccine Passports and Health Passes: Is Showing Your "Papers" the "New Normal?" globalresearch.ca 
By In case you have been living under a rock for the past several weeks, here are several instances where the "public …
(2020-12-17). Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity. counterpunch.org As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate. On October 27th, 74,379 people were infected in the United States; less than a month and a half later, on December 9th, that number had soared to 218,677, while the 2020 total has just surpassed 15 million,
(2020-12-17). Vaccine Passports and Health Passes: Is Showing Your "Papers" the "New Normal?" globalresearch.ca Life cannot return to normal until there is a vaccine for COVID 19. | At least, that is what governments, corporations, and their mainstream propaganda media outlets have been incessantly arguing. Interestingly, the development of that vaccine was "warp speed," allegedly …
(2020-12-17). No Flu this Year? Or Is Flu the Second Wave of Covid? globalresearch.ca Is there no flu this year or is flu "the second wave of Covid?" | Don't expect any honest answer from health authorities. They have the fear running strong, so strong that people are submitting to needless lockdowns that are causing …
(2020-12-17). Vaccines: Did Big Pharma Purchase California's Legislative Machinery? globalresearch.ca California has some of the most stringent vaccine mandate laws in the United States. Why is that? At first, it seemed that draconian vaccination laws were introduced in response to a measles outbreak that began in Disneyland in 2014. But …
(2020-12-17). Nomination of Michael Regan Shows Biden's Commitment To Rebuild EPA, Protect Public Health and Advance Environmental Justice. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-12-17). Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution. zcomm.org Review of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz (Monthly Review Press)…