Daily Archives: May 11, 2021

2021-05-11: News Headlines

Staff (2021-05-11). Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) condemns Israeli aggression, calls to #SaveSheikhJarrah. samidoun.net The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil is a mass social movement, formed by rural workers and by all those who want to fight for land reform and against injustice and social inequality in rural areas. With an estimated 1.5 million members, the movement has led more than 2,500 land occupations, with about 370,000 families — families that today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land that they won as a result of the occupations. Through their organizing, these families continue to push for schools, credit for agricultural production and cooperatives, and access to health care. The MST has continuously…

Staff (2021-05-11). Headlines for May 11, 2021. democracynow.org Israeli Airstrikes Kill 26 Palestinians in Gaza, Including 9 Children, Bodies of Indian COVID-19 Victims Found on Banks of Ganges River, World Health Organization Chief Blasts "Shocking Global Disparity" in Vaccine Access, U.S. Drug Regulator Clears Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine for Use in Children 12 and Older, Democrats Urge President Biden to Lift Iran Sanctions and Return to 2015 Nuclear Deal, Colombian President Warns Indigenous Protesters Amid Mounting Attacks by Vigilantes, Mother's Day Marchers Demand Mexican Government Take Action to Find Missing Children, Moroccan Authorities Raid Home of Western Sahara Ind…

Jasmine Norden (2021-05-11). UK must stop 'shameful' arms sales to Israel after 26 killed in Gaza airstrikes. thecanary.co Campaigners are putting pressure on the UK to stop selling arms to Israel after The Israeli military launched overnight airstrikes on Gaza, hitting two border tunnels and two high-rise buildings. Health officials in Gaza said 26 people, including nine children, had died, most as a result of the airstrikes. | This is the

Staff (2021-05-11). Zionist attack on Gaza leaves 24 martyred, incl. 9 children. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 11 (MNA) — The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrs of the Zionist regime's attack on Gaza increased to 24.

Jesse Jackson (2021-05-11). We Must Push Politics Aside in the Global Race to Vaccinate the World Against Covid-19. commondreams.org "If we are to address common global threats such as contagions or climate change or nuclear war, we must develop a global perspective." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-11). China on the horizon as 'world's pharmacy'. mronline.org The World Health Organisation's approval Friday for China's COVID-19 vaccine known as Sinopharm dramatically transforms the ecosystem of the pandemic. | May 11, 2021 | News…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-11). Why Biden's Vaccine IP Waiver is Political Theatre. counterpunch.org India's Ministry of External Affairs has welcomed the statement of the US government of 5th May announcing their support for a relaxation in the norms of the agreement on TRIPS, to ensure quick and affordable access to vaccines and medicines for developing countries. Delhi is "hopeful that with a consensus based approach, the waiver can be approved quickly at the WTO." But is the optimism warranted?

Noam Chomsky (2021-05-11). Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting From COVID Than Human Survival. zcomm.org Unless vaccines go to the Global South, the virus is going to mutate. It's already happening, you get more lethal strains…

Rep. Ron Paul (2021-05-11). COVID Authoritarians Abuse Children. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. Centers for Diseases …

Rainer Shea (2021-05-11). Eternal War and Austerity: The Hell that Imperialist Propaganda Demands us to Accept. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — May 8, 2021 | The narrative managers of U.S. imperialism don't want us to think about the mounting evidence that an alternative to our current socio-political system exists. They don't want us to think about how over 800 Chinese million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last generation due due to China's socialist workers democracy, or about the successes that the five Marxist-Leninist countries have had in fighting Covid-19 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or how a multi-polar world order is emerging which is diminishing the deadly reach of the U.S. empire, or how a new wa…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-05-11). The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of "Positive Cases" are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis. globalresearch.ca One year later the WHO retracts. They don't say "We Made a Mistake". It's carefully formulated. While they do not officially deny the validity of their misleading January 2020 guidelines, they recommend RT-PCR "Re-testing" (which everybody knows is an impossibility).

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Mayo Clinic again receives top honors for high-quality patient care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Eleven? hospitals across?Mayo Clinic?received star ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for Overall Hospital Quality. Six of the 11 hospitals earned five stars — the best score possible. The national average is 3 of 5 stars. The star rating provides patients with information about multiple dimensions of quality …

Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal (2021-05-11). It Is Imperative We Fix the Gaping Holes in Medicare. commondreams.org "The lack of benefits for hearing, dental and vision has severe consequences for worsening a whole host of other medical conditions," writes Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

David Bacon (2021-05-11). Abandonment of COVID protections puts farm workers in a stranglehold. peoplesworld.org Growers are just beginning to bring this year's wave of contracted laborers into Washington State for the coming season to pick apples, cherries, and other fruit. The laborers are arriving to just-relaxed COVID-19 health and safety requirements for farmworkers, courtesy of a Superior Court judge in Yakima County, the heart of the state's apple country. Meanwhile, …

Staff (2021-05-11). What could life and media be without surveillance capitalism? therealnews.com In the previous two livestreams in this special series, we identified many of the maladies that plague our lives in the digital era. Now, we talk about how to fight back—and the alternatives we should be fighting for.

Editor (2021-05-11). Stop drug monopoly murders. workers.org Once again, capitalist greed predominates over human need — with very dire consequences. In the world's worst wave of coronavirus cases, which began in late March, India reported its largest daily death figures — 4,187 people as of May 8. In the third-highest global death toll, over 242,000 people have . . . |

_____ (2021-05-11). Murray Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison. strategic-culture.org Craig Murray, the former British diplomat, has been sentenced to 8 months in prison for contempt of court during the 2020 trial of former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond. | By Joe LAURIA | Craig Murray, an ex-British ambassador and blogger, has been sentenced to eight months in prison after being found guilty in March of contempt of court during the 2020 trial of former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond. He was given three weeks to turn himself into police, pending his appeal. Judge Lady Dorrian issued the sentence, she said, despite Murray's health issues. | Murray faced up to two years in prison and unl…

Global Research News (2021-05-11). Selected Articles: Halt COVID Vaccine, Prominent Scientist Tells CDC. globalresearch.ca By In a public comment to the CDC, molecular biologist and toxicologist Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D., called to immediately halt Covid vaccine production and distribution. …

Staff (2021-05-11). 'People are dying every minute': COVID-19 catastrophes in India and Brazil. therealnews.com A nightmarish combination of international capitalist greed, vaccine hoarding in the global North, and right-wing national governments has thrown India and Brazil into the deadly throes of a catastrophic COVID-19 surge.

jamanetwork (2021-05-11). Programming Code—Related Errors. jamanetwork.com In the Research Letter titled "Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Among Commercially Insured Patients in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in the December 15, 2020, issue of JAMA, a programming code error led to incorrect data reported throughout the Results section, the Figure, the Table, and the eTable in the Supplement. The main findings did not change. This article was corrected online.

WSWS (2021-05-11). 750 bodies of New Yorkers who died from COVID-19 last year still held in refrigerated trucks. wsws.org Last year's initial pandemic wave in New York City resulted in mass deaths, which overwhelmed the city's mortuary facilities.

Abbasi J. (2021-05-11). A Next-Generation Rapid, Accurate SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test. jamanetwork.com More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests are plentiful, but highly accurate, affordable, point-of-care versions with quantitative data still don't exist. An innovative test from scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues could change that.

WSWS (2021-05-11). COVID-19 infections soar in Alberta as third wave continues to rampage across Canada. wsws.org If Alberta were a country, it would have the second-highest infection rate in the G20 behind only Argentina.

Peter Kuper (2021-05-11). Covid's Spread Ignores All Borders. thenation.com Covid's Spread Ignores All Borders…

Fahad Shah (2021-05-11). Parking Lot Crematoria Burn Through the Night as Covid-19 Overwhelms Delhi. thenation.com Parking Lot Crematoria Burn Through the Night as Covid-19 Overwhelms Delhi…

imperial.ac.uk (2021-05-11). AI analytics predict COVID-19 patients' daily trajectory in UK intensive care. imperial.ac.uk Researchers used AI to identify which daily changing clinical parameters best predict intervention responses in critically ill COVID-19 patients.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Children also face long-term effects of COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Long-term effects of COVID-19 infection are affecting the health of some children and teens, as well as adults. While most children with COVID-19 infection have mild symptoms or have no symptoms at all, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says anyone who has had COVID-19 ? even if the illness was mild or if …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Preventive screening during COVID-19 pandemic leads to early diagnosis of treatable breast cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers have been concerned about a growing number of patients delaying or skipping preventive screenings because they have been hesitant to see their health care provider. Experts have stressed that it's not only safe to come in for preventive screenings, but also it's important to avoid future health problems …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). HEPA filter reduces airborne respiratory particles generated during exercise that can transmit viruses. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A pair of Mayo Clinic studies shed light on something that is typically difficult to see with the eye: respiratory aerosols. Such aerosol particles of varying sizes are a common component of breath, and they are a typical mode of transmission for respiratory viruses like COVID-19 to spread to other people and …

CJ Hopkins (2021-05-11). The Criminalization of Dissent. "Covid Deniers"and "Anti-Vaxxers" under Surveillance. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. One of the …

Barbara Loe Fisher (2021-05-11). Seeing Through the COVID Spin. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. The COVID-19 spin …

Staff (2021-05-11). Iran coronavirus update: 18k news cases, 307 deaths. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 11 (MNA) — According to the Iranian Health Ministry, 18,133 new COVID-19 infections have been detected across the country in the past 24 hours.

Kuehn BM. (2021-05-11). Even Partial COVID-19 Vaccination Protects Nursing Home Residents. jamanetwork.com A CDC analysis has shown that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine protected medically vulnerable nursing home residents as well as it did general adult populations that were evaluated in other efficacy and effectiveness studies.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Ramping up COVID-19 vaccination rate in race against virus. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 cases are falling in the U.S. because 245 million doses of one of the available COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, according to Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "But at the same time, there are still people who need more information about the safety and the value …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Mayo Clinic adds state-by-state vaccination rates, national trends to COVID-19 Resource Center. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic data scientists have added a vaccination tracker to Mayo's COVID-19 Resource Center, with state-by-state data and trends, so users can follow the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in all 50 states, compare progress on one- and two-shot vaccinations, and receive Mayo Clinic guidance on what the trends mean for summer travel and …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Mayo Clinic to offer more walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Rochester. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic held a walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Rochester on Wednesday, May 5. At this clinic, one patient shared why he came in to get the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Watch: Patient discusses why he chose to get the COVID-19 vaccine. youtu.be/ORLLLOOJ7eg Journalists: Broadcast-quality soundbites and b-roll of the Mayo Clinic walk-in COVID-19 …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Mammograms and COVID-19 vaccine. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A friend of mine shared that she went for her annual mammogram last week. At the appointment, she was asked whether she had been vaccinated for COVID-19 and had experienced any changes in her breasts. I recently received my first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Although I feel fine, I'm wondering if there …

WSWS (2021-05-11). Epidemiologist warns of "inevitable" COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia. wsws.org The flawed hotel quarantine program and shambolic vaccine rollout have rendered the country vulnerable to the current surge of the pandemic.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). When will COVID-19 vaccines be available for children? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Anyone 16 and older is now approved to be vaccinated for COVID-19, but researchers hope to open up vaccinations for those under 16 soon. Clinical trials for the Pfizer vaccine with children ages 12-15 have shown promising results. "In the last month or so we have seen Pfizer release some really exciting data in the …

Colin Todhunter (2021-05-11). Anthony Fauci "has no clue and no authority to lecture on what is good for India" dissidentvoice.org In light of the current COVID-related situation in India, Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US adviser on COVID, has called for India to implement a hard lockdown and for the mass roll-out of vaccines. However, Fauci has no clue and no authority to lecture on what is good for India. That is the view of …

Staff (2021-05-11). 3rd phase of clinical trial of Pasteur vaccine begins in Yazd. en.mehrnews.com YAZD, May 11 (MNA) — The third phase of clinical trial of Iran-Cuba jointly produced COVID-19 vaccine started in Yazd province by voluntary injection of the vaccine into some provincial officials.

Abby D. (2021-05-11). Sonoma County Child Protective Services Referrals Down. indybay.org Covid has affected Child Protective Services. Since Covid started the reports have gone down. Now that school has gone online the teachers haven't been reporting. The police and hospital staff have been the ones reporting the more severe cases.

news.un (2021-05-11). Vaccine inequity posing 'significant risk' to global economic recovery: UN report. news.un.org Although the outlook for global growth has improved, the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as inadequate progress on vaccination in poorer countries, are putting recovery at risk, according to the latest UN economic forecast, published on Tuesday.

Torous J. (2021-05-11). Digital Interventions for Symptoms of Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. jamanetwork.com The need for accessible and effective mental health interventions remains a global health priority, with internet and smartphone technology offering a feasible means to deliver care. The global pandemic has accelerated interest in, use of, and support for digital mental health solutions. Thus, 2 articles in this issue of JAMA offer relevant and timely evidence for offering digitally enabled care and highlight emerging frontiers for the behavioral health field. Both articles present an impressive assessment of digital approaches to improve access and outcomes and use high-quality methodology (randomization, contro…

The Canary (2021-05-11). David Cameron's lobbying texts to Sunak and Gove released. thecanary.co Records of David Cameron's intense lobbying efforts for Greensill Capital have been released to reveal text messages he sent chancellor Rishi Sunak and senior Cabinet minister Michael Gove. | Cam-splaining: | The Conservative former prime minister also sent messages to vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi during the pandemic as he sought to gain access for Greensill to government-backed coronavirus loans, it emerged on 11 May. | MPs on the Commons Treasury Committee released correspondence they have received by the subjects of their inquiry following Greensill Capital's collapse, which jeopardised 5,000 steelm…

Prof. Daniel Broudy (2021-05-11). International Corona Research Cohort. The Lawsuit against the CDC, the WHO and the Davos Group. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. Some of my …

Kuehn BM. (2021-05-11). Vaccine Dramatically Reduces HPV Infection Among Young Women. jamanetwork.com Widespread vaccination of young women against human papillomavirus (HPV) has led to a greater than 80% reduction in infections with the 4 strains most often associated with disease, according to a CDC study.

Xiong W. (2021-05-11). Pulmonary Embolism Prevalence Among Hospitalized Patients With COPD. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The PEP study suggested that the prevalence of pulmonary embolism was 5.9% among 740 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) hospitalized with acutely worsening respiratory symptoms by using a diagnostic algorithm based on the revised Geneva score and D-dimer levels. In this study, patients with a revised Geneva score less than 11 and a D-dimer value less than 500 ng/mL did not undergo further evaluation for pulmonary embolism.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Exploring health care disparities in minority populations. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In recognition of National Minority Health Month, a number of Mayo Clinic experts participated in a virtual Mayo Clinic media briefing to discuss health care disparities that affect racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S. The experts addressed health education, early detection and control of disease complications. These are some of the topics discussed: …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-11). Trial demonstrates early AI-guided detection of heart disease in routine practice. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Heart disease can take a number of forms, but some types of heart disease, such as asymptomatic low ejection fraction, can be hard to recognize, especially in the early stages when treatment would be most effective. The ECG AI-Guided Screening for Low Ejection Fraction, or EAGLE, trial set out to determine whether …

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