(2020-12-22). Experimental COVID Vaccines Refuted by Peer Reviewed Reports. globalresearch.ca Along with hazardous to human health ingredients in all vaccines, alleged protection afforded by Covid vaccines is dubious at best, unsupported by evidence at worst. | BMJ calls itself a publication "intended for healthcare professions." | According to its associate editor/pharmacologist Peter …
(2020-12-22). FDA Investigates Allergic Reactions to Pfizer COVID Vaccine After More Healthcare Workers Hospitalized. globalresearch.ca The FDA is investigating allergic reactions in "multiple states." The agency acknowledged the reactions may have been caused by PEG, a compound in the Pfizer vaccine that CHD previously told the FDA could put millions of people at risk. | ***…
(2020-12-22). A pandemic 'Nurse T' tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary. peoplesworld.org 
Reading A Pandemic Nurse's Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón, "Something to Read," from his collection A Puerto Rican in New York, in which he describes "a piece of …
(2020-12-22). The vaccine: class division and chaos. workers.org 
To spotlight the need for COVID-19 vaccinations of hospital workers, Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., staged a photo op on Dec. 18. Front line medical residents and fellows demand vaccine access, Dec. 18. A group of medical residents created a media event of their own to protest their . . . |
(2020-12-22). Faith and the fight against climate change, part 4. therealnews.com 
In the final episode of this series, Aman Azhar asks: what value do faith-based community groups have in addressing the climate crisis and why is it that we don't hear much about faith groups' engagement with political action on these contemporary issues?
(2020-12-22). The Heat: COVID-19 vaccines. america.cgtn.com 
Some good news on the fight against COVID-19. Moderna rolls out its vaccine across the United States. But even with that step forward, a new coronavirus variant is causing global concern.
(2020-12-22). As pandemic surges, California hospitals move to ration care. wsws.org With health care systems being overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases and intensive care units filled to capacity, hospitals are starting to ration care, withholding it from those deemed unlikely to survive the disease.
(2020-12-22). Big Pharma Business Model Is Serious Obstacle to Wiping Out COVID-19: Report. globalresearch.ca New research released today by Global Justice Now examines the history of some of the leading corporations producing coronavirus medicines, warning that their business model is likely to make controlling the pandemic more difficult, despite the rapid production of vaccines….
(2020-12-22). Assessing Progress in Health Care Quality Through the Lens of COVID-19. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint describes US health system performance during the COVID-19 pandemic using the National Academy of Medicine's 2001 Quality Chasm framework, focusing on system cohesion, organizational capabilities, and environment of care.
(2020-12-22). Shifts in Emergency Mental Health Care for Youth During the Pandemic. jamanetwork.com The proportion of visits to the emergency department (ED) for mental health concerns rose by about one-quarter among children aged 5 to 11 years and by nearly one-third among 12- to 17-year-olds in 2020 compared with 2019.
(2020-12-22). Taiwan detects first local Covid case in over 8 months. laprensalatina.com Taipei, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- Taiwanese health authorities on Tuesday reported the first locally transmitted coronavirus case in more than eight months, the island's official news agency CNA reported. Taiwan has largely escaped the worst of the pandemic, having fared much better than most other developed nations, after restricting foreign travel during the early stages of …
(2020-12-22). Pfizer COVID Jab Warning: No Breastfeeding, Avoid Pregnancy for 2 Months, Unknown Fertility Impacts. globalresearch.ca Government produced safety instructions for a new coronavirus vaccine indicate that it should not be used by pregnant or breast-feeding mothers and children. In addition, they state that it is unknown what effect the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine will have on …
(2020-12-22). Bernie Sanders: Covid relief package is "totally inadequate" for "unprecedented" economic crisis. nationofchange.org "This country faces the worst set of public health and economic crises that we have faced in over a hundred years."
(2020-12-22). IRIMC calls on WHO to act against US sanction amid Covid-19. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) — Cheif of Iran's Medical council called on the Director-General of WHO to take appropriate measures against the US cruel sanctions preventing Iran from providing Covid-19 vaccines.
(2020-12-22). Take it one day at a time to tackle lonely Covid Christmas, charities say. thecanary.co Charities are urging people anticipating a lonely festive period to "take it one day at a time", in an effort to protect their mental health. Last-minute restrictions on social freedoms mean many of us will be facing the Christmas period without loved ones. | London and parts of southern and eastern England were rushed into the new Tier 4 lockdown regime at the weekend. This effectively cancelled most Christmas plans, and imposed measures similar to the previous national lockdowns amid the rise of a new coronavirus mutant strain. | Scotland and Northern Ireland have already announced new lockdowns from Boxing Day…
(2020-12-22). Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ): The Suppression of a Proven COVID Remedy. globalresearch.ca Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been an FDA approved drug for over 65 years. It has been on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines since the list began in 1977. People have been safely treated with HCQ billions of times …
(2020-12-22). Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. jamanetwork.com This narrative review summarizes recent advances in the diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), including updates on pharmacologic options and surgical approaches.
(2020-12-22). USW strikes Constellium at Alabama aluminum plant. fightbacknews.org Muscle Shoals, AL – More than 400 members of United Steel Workers Local 200 are on strike against Constellium over unfair labor practices at its Second Street production facility, formerly owned by Wise Alloys and Reynolds. | The strike began on December 15 after months of negotiations with management failing to bargain to a fair, acceptable agreement, despite extending the previous contract with Constellium for more than a month past its November 1 expiration. | "Constellium insists on a contract that would erase decades of collective bargaining progress on issues like seniority and occupational health and safet…
(2020-12-22). Patient Information: Peyronie Disease. jamanetwork.com This JAMA Patient Page describes Peyronie disease, a scarring of tissue in the penis that may affect sexual function, and available procedural treatment options.
(2020-12-22). Cross-Training in Neurology and Psychiatry. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In their Viewpoint on training in neurology and psychiatry, Dr Keshavan and colleagues, argued that the interface between the mind and the brain is neglected in training; the addition of residency training in clinical neuroscience may allow physicians to better address those diseases that cause neurological and psychiatric symptoms. However, by suggesting that all trainees in neurology and psychiatry focus more heavily on the neurosciences, I believe that they went too far.
(2020-12-22). Accelerating Global Improvements in Health Care Quality. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint proposes a policy framework for thinking about health care quality in low- and middle-income countries, emphasizing the importance of infrastructure, enforceable quality standards, safety practices, guideline-directed clinical care, and patient and family involvement.
(2020-12-22). Vaccines, Vaccines, Vaccines — Why Doesn't Everyone Have One or Two? cepr.net David Dayan, at The American Prospect, raises the question of why we didn't do more planning, five, or six months, ago to ensure that when we had safe and effective vaccines, they could quickly be produced in huge quantities. Now we are being told that it won't be until the summer or even fall until …
(2020-12-22). "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.
(2020-12-22). Homeless Dead in Santa Cruz County 2020. indybay.org This is the list given out at the on-line 2020 Homeless Memorial on December 17, 2017, sponsored by Housing Matters, the Santa Cruz County Homeless Persons Health Project, Wings and the Salvation Army. It was updated for the in-person Memorial held today at the Food Not Bombs meal location at Front and Laurel Sts.
(2020-12-22). Populists and Experts. indybay.org Privilege versus equality. | "The central issue in the conflict between the government and doctors in Saskatchewan is not health insurance, but democracy," noted the Toronto-based newspaper The Globe and Mail after the strike began. "The experts, no matter what their specialty, must always ultimately be subordinate to the laity, or democracy can't work."
(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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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: 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). No Rush To Vaccinate in Brazil, President Bolsonaro Believes. telesurenglish.net Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the urgency for distributing COVID-19 vaccines in his country because he considers that they interfere with people's lives. | RELATED: | "The rush is not justified," the far-right politician said in a video posted on social media. "It is an interference in people's lives." | Previously, last week, Bolsonaro compared the pandemic with the rain and said he will not take any va…
(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). 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). 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). 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 mutation. 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). 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…
(2020-12-20). 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). The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies. globalresearch.ca This Project Censored Review by Prof. Nolan Higdon and William 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 was …
(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). 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 …