(2020-12-21). Losing Your Health Care to COVID-19. progressive.org The pandemic has forced workers off of employer-sponsored plans and into the unknown.
(2020-12-21). Militarized Pandemic Science: Why is the Pentagon Funding the EcoHealth Alliance? counterpunch.org 
"Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what's responsible for them, but we don't know exactly when the next one will happen. They need to be handled the same way — by identifying all possible sources and dismantling those before the next pandemic strikes." This statement was written in the
(2020-12-21). Chris Hedges: The Great Delusion. mintpressnews.com The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that we are losing control as a nation and as a species.
(2020-12-21). The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality. counterpunch.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.
(2020-12-21). Thousands of Americans "Negatively Affected" Following COVID-19 Vaccination. globalresearch.ca Thousands of people have been unable to work or perform daily activities, or required care from a healthcare professional, after getting the new As of …
(2020-12-21). VIDEO: Ask The Experts: Covid-19 Vaccine — Now Banned on YouTube and Facebook. globalresearch.ca The opinions of prominent scientists who question the lockdown, the face-mask or social distancing are "taken down" by Google: | " …
(2020-12-21). "Don't Become A Pharma Guinea Pig": The FDA Gives Greenlight to Experimental Moderna Covid Vaccine. globalresearch.ca The Trump regime, its FDA, Pharma, and press agent media are playing fast and loose with human health. | On Thursday, the FDA authorized emergency use of Moderna's experimental covid vaccine after doing the same for Pfizer days earlier. | The FDA …
(2020-12-21). The COVID vaccine rollout: A demonstration of capitalist incompetence. wsws.org Last week has seen the life-saving Pfizer vaccine rollout accompanied by a massive publicity campaign. However, immediately, issues on allotments and distribution have met with mass confusion.
(2020-12-21). The Covid Vaccine: The Fate of "Human Guinea Pigs" from the Lab's "Mouse Point of View". globalresearch.ca How is it that a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which under normal conditions would take years to develop, was promptly launched in early November 2020? The vaccine announced by Pfizer is based on an experimental gene editing
(2020-12-21). Warning: Covid Vaccines! Huge Risks, Huge Injuries — Huge Compensations? globalresearch.ca Did you know that the US Government since 1988 paid as of 1 December 2020 more than 4.4 billion dollars to vaccine-injury victims? — It's your money — Taxpayers Money. This is
(2020-12-21). COVID-19: Mid-South Hospitals Nearing Capacity. laprensalatina.com Vivian Fernández-de-Adamson — LPL MEMPHIS, TN (LPL) — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. are reaching full capacity, including those in the Mid-South. In fact, as reported by the Shelby County Health Department, as of Tuesday, December 15, there were only about 11 ICU beds available in Shelby County and adjoining counties …
(2020-12-21). Japan's Covid-19 cases go past 200,000, deaths near 3,000 mark. laprensalatina.com Tokyo, Dec 21 (efe-epa).- Japan on Monday crossed the grim milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 cases, including 2,930 deaths, with the pandemic surging since the caseload touched 100,000 less than two months ago. The data, anticipated by state broadcaster NHK hours before the health ministry officially confirmed the figures, showed that on Monday the total number …
(2020-12-21). China, Christmas and the Coronavirus. counterpunch.org 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
(2020-12-21). Britain's right-wing government under fire as new COVID strain rapidly spreads. peoplesworld.org 
LONDON—Failing to introduce COVID-19 restrictions earlier was an "act of gross negligence," Britain's Labour Party charged Sunday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson sprung new measures on millions just days before Christmas. Johnson's announcement altering public health measures came following the identification of a new, more contagious strain of the virus spiraling out of control. Tough …
(2020-12-21). No reason to worry? WHO says new Covid-19 strain found in UK is no deadlier & only slightly more infectious than others. rt.com 
The World Health Organization has come forward to calm things down amid the anxiety over a new potentially 'highly infectious' Covid-19 strain found in the UK, saying it is not that different from other coronavirus strains. | "There is zero evidence that the new coronavirus variant increases severity of the disease," the WHO's Health Emergencies Program Chief Mike Ryan told at a press conference on Monday, citing data received from British scientists. | The risks faced by the people that catch this particular strain of the virus are pretty much the same as odds faced by other people suffering from Covid-19. Ac…
(2020-12-21). Covid-19: Mass Testing Is Inaccurate and Gives False Sense of Security: British Medical Journal Report. globalresearch.ca Mass testing of people without covid-19 symptoms is "not an accurate way of screening the general population," a senior figure at the Department of Health and Social Care has said in a letter seen by The BMJ (see Related content)….
(2020-12-21). New COVID-19 variants under the microscope as travel bans mount over UK strain. news.un.org The UN health agency chief said on Monday that scientists have been working to understand new COVID-19 variants that have been reported in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
(2020-12-21). Covid-19: Qatar and Oman to receive vaccine this week. middleeasteye.net 
Covid-19: Qatar and Oman to receive vaccine this week | Doha expected to receive shipments of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday | Mon, 12/21/2020 – 10: 06 | Qatar and Oman to receive Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipment this week (AFP) | Qatar's health ministry granted emergency use authorisation for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech and is due to recei…
(2020-12-21). Today is Stalin's birthday. fightbacknews.org December 21 marks the birthday of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. | Though reviled in the West, Stalin oversaw the period of socialist construction in the USSR. Under his leadership the country abolished illiteracy, unemployment, homelessness, and put an end to Russia's centuries-long history of famines. Under the leadership of Stalin, the USSR played a key role in turning back the tide of fascism and the defeat of Nazi Germany. This victory was not just a victory for the Soviet Union and socialism, but a victory for the peoples of the world…
(2020-12-21). No Co-Sponsor of 'Medicare for All' Has Lost Reelection in the Past Decade (Even in GOP-Leaning Districts). commondreams.org Every single Congressional co-sponsor of these bills in the House and Senate who were up for reelection beat their Republican opponents in 2020. And in 2018. And in 2016. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-12-21). Community concern in Washington state over hospital merger. liberationnews.org 
Liberation News spoke with Susan Young and Carollynn Zimmers, DVM, two activists with Save Secular Healthcare WA, a grassroots organization of concerned citizens, volunteering their time to raise serious concerns over the proposed merger.
(2020-12-21). 80,000 People Sign "Stop Clinical Trials of Corona Vaccines" Petition —European Medicines Agency (EMA) Silent. globalresearch.ca Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, pulmonologist and former head of a public health department, and Dr. Michael Yeadon, ex-Pfizer research director for respiratory diseases, petitioned the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, on December 1, 2020, to immediately stop clinical trials of …
(2020-12-21). Donald Trump Administration's Approval of "Radioactive Roads": Lawsuit against EPA. globalresearch.ca Environmental, public health and union groups The EPA has long prohibi…
(2020-12-21). CDC study reveals increase of biofilm in US water systems. nationofchange.org Due to the country's aging infrastructure, the CDC expects a further increase to the transmission of diseases through biofilms and water systems.
(2020-12-21). Doctors in Kenya's public hospitals join nurses in strike. peoplesdispatch.org Health workers are demanding payment of salaries, comprehensive health insurance, quality PPEs, increase in risk allowances, and conversion of contract workers into permanent employees with access to pensions…
(2020-12-21). Shielders told not to go to work in Tier 4 areas in updated guidance. thecanary.co Clinically extremely vulnerable people in Tier 4 areas are being told not to go to work even if they are unable to work from home in new guidance published on shielding. | People across London, the South East and the East of England received further guidance online on Monday after the areas moved into Tier 4 restrictions over the weekend. | Those who are at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus, including people with specific cancers and severe respiratory conditions, are being urged to stay at home and only leave to exercise or attend health appointments. | Here's information on Tier 4: Stay At Home.
(2020-12-21). "Health is not a Super basic right" indybay.org What has to change with regard to the handling of our fundamental rights from a legal, but also from a political point of view? The federal government's Corona policy is not without alternatives, and it has by no means always been successful, as the unsuccessful "partial lockdown" has shown. Nor is there "science" that agrees on necessary measures; there are also many critical voices among medical experts.
(2020-12-20). The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies. globalresearch.ca This Project Censored Review by Prof. Nolan Higdon and Michael Smith on the H1N1 "pandemic" and vaccine scandal was originally published in 2010 following the 2009 H1N1 virus outbreak. | Below is the link to Michel Chossudovsky's detailed article which …
(2020-12-20). Hearing Without Listening. The Pfizer "Experimental" Covid Vaccine. The FDA Vaccines Advisory Committee Review Process. globalresearch.ca The meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's
(2020-12-20). Everyday War Crimes: Israeli PM Netanyahu Gets Covid Vaccine, Squatters Get Vaccine, But Not Occupied Palestinians. commondreams.org Vaccines will be supplied to the hundreds of thousands of government-backed illegal Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank, but not to the indigenous Palestinian population. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-12-20). Iran COVID-19 update: 6,312 new cases, 177 deaths. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 6,312 COVID-19 infections and 177 deaths due to respiratory disease in the past 24 hours.
(2020-12-20). 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). 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). 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). "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). 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). US Army General in Charge of COVID-19 Vaccines Distribution Apologizes For 'Miscommunication'. sputniknews.com On 14 December, some Americans started receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, developed in cooperation between the US-based Pfizer and the German-based BioNTech SE companies, after it was authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration. On Friday, the FDA allowed the use of a second vaccine, by US-based Moderna.
(2020-12-19). First In the Room, Back of the Line: America's Profiteering Health System Does It Again. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(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). 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). Matt Hancock just delivered a 'Scrooge letter' to nurses over their pay. thecanary.co Health secretary Matt Hancock has
(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."
(2020-12-18). 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). US FDA Panel Backs Emergency Authorization of Moderna's Vaccine. telesurenglish.net An advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday voted in favor of authorizing Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. | RELATED: | It is the second COVID-19 vaccine in the country, following the approval of a vaccine developed by the U.S. drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech. | The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the FDA voted 20-0 wit…
(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). 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). 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). 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.