G. Dunkel (2022-12-16). Long COVID: a public health catastrophe. workers.org On Sept. 18, President Joe Biden declared: "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over." Symptoms of long COVID The U.S. had an average daily rate of 207 deaths from COVID-19 as of . . . |

____ (2022-12-16). U.S. announces COVID preparedness plan. ecns.cn The White House on Thursday announced a COVID-19 'winter preparedness plan', including free at-home tests, to fight the virus as cases and hospitalizations across the country surge.

____ (2022-12-15). New edition of China's COVID-19 control protocols to be released soon: Zhong Nanshan. ecns.cn The 10th edition of China's COVID-19 control protocols will be released soon, which will benefit economic development on the basis of active epidemic prevention.

____ (2022-12-15). UAE approves use of China's Sinopharm broad-spectrum COVID vaccine. ecns.cn A broad-spectrum COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm, which has the potential to protect against variants including Omicron, has been approved for emergency use by authorities in the United Arab Emirates.

____ (2022-12-15). China conducts survey on population most susceptible to COVID-19 infections. ecns.cn China is carrying out a survey to identify people most susceptible to COVID-19 infections, including the elderly and those with underlying diseases, an official with the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Thursday.

____ (2022-12-15). Businesses receive boost for orders at home and abroad. ecns.cn In the last two weeks, foreign trade companies in China have ramped up their efforts to grab international orders, as the nation further optimizes its COVID-19 policies.

WSWS (2022-12-16). Education workers across Canada must link the fight for Zero COVID to the growing working-class challenge to capitalist austerity and imperialist war. wsws.org In Canada and many other countries, a conflux of respiratory viruses—primarily influenza, RSV and COVID-19—have brought an already overstretched and chronically understaffed health care system to the brink of collapse.

____ (2022-12-16). Temporary fever clinic in Beijing's Fengtai opens to patients. ecns.cn The clinic provided 24-hour services to 16-65 years old patient with mild symptoms of COVID infection and no underlying diseases.

____ (2022-12-15). Multiple Chinese cities begin second booster rollout. ecns.cn Multiple Chinese cities have released the location of local vaccination sites while encouraging the public to seek out a second COVID-19 booster shot.

WSWS (2022-12-16). German states strike mask requirements in public transportation. wsws.org In Germany more than 100 people are dying daily from COVID-19, clinics are at capacity and a winter storm of coronavirus is brewing.

WSWS (2022-12-16). Chinese Communist Party embraces the global "forever COVID" policy. wsws.org With breathtaking speed, at the behest of world capitalism, the CCP leadership has stripped away even the most basic disease mitigation measures and clearly shifted to a policy of mass infection.

____ (2022-12-16). Grassroots clinics being buffed up. ecns.cn Sourcing sufficient medical supplies for primary healthcare clinics, recruiting recent retirees and increasing the number of fever clinics are some of the measures being taken to relieve the strain on the grassroots level amid the Omicron outbreak.

____ (2022-12-16). Inspectors quash drug price gouging. ecns.cn Market regulation authorities have stepped up efforts to crack down on price gouging and profiteering on COVID-19 drugs and other anti-epidemic materials.

WSWS (2022-12-16). Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death. wsws.org In this interview for the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alberta nurse Kerry speaks on her experience with Long COVID and the unions' complicity in enforcing the government's "let it rip" pandemic policy.

____ (2022-12-15). Biden says COVID-19 cases rising across U.S. ecns.cn U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that COVID-19 cases "are rising" across the country.

Senator Ron Johnson (2022-12-15). COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work, and Possible Causes of Injuries. U.S. Senator Johnson's Roundtable. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-12-15). After 41 Years In Prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get A New Trial. popularresistance.org Award-winning journalist and author Mumia Abu-Jamal has been in prison for 41 years in a case infused with racism. The 68-year-old is a former Black Panther and the author of a dozen books, including the celebrated Live from Death Row. After his 1982 conviction in the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death. In 2011, his sentence was reduced to life without the possibility of parole. Abu-Jamal has a serious heart condition and other life-threatening health problems. | Faulkner stopped Abu-Jamal's younger brother William Cook on the morning of December 9, 1981. Abu-Jamal, who wa…

_____ (2022-12-15). Labor Leaders Provide Cover For Privatization Of Medicare. popularresistance.org Such a statement from the AFL-CIO would suggest that labor is determined to protect Medicare and even support improving and expanding it to all Americans. Additionally, President Biden and Democrats regularly criticize Republican threats to reauthorize and voucherize Medicare. Meanwhile, what's left out of both the Democrat talking points and the AFL-CIO's 2022 national resolution on healthcare is any acknowledgment that the real threat to Medicare and healthcare today is the decades-long tax-subsidized privatization supported by both major parties. | With major support from organized labor, including AFL-CIO Pre…

Editor (2022-12-15). China and the cost of reversing COVID-19 policies. workers.org For months western media has been attacking China's COVID policies, condemning them for causing enormous inconvenience and discomfort to avoid massive deaths from the pandemic. So, it comes as no surprise that when protests actually occur within China against the protective restrictions, these same media pundits elevate them to the . . . |

WSWS (2022-12-15). Interview with a Foxconn worker from China. wsws.org "The Chinese government cares just about the economy. Faced with economic decline and opposition from the middle class, sacrificing the lives of millions of the poor [by lifting COVID restrictions] is not an unbearable price."

____ (2022-12-15). Xinjiang enterprises go full throttle to boost foreign trade. ecns.cn Many localities across China are moving fast to boost foreign trade and investment as the country has adjusted its COVID-19 response to facilitate the orderly recovery of normal life and production.

____ (2022-12-15). China Meheco signs contract to distribute Pfizer's COVID treatment drug in China. ecns.cn China Meheco said on Wednesday it signed an agreement with Pfizer Inc to import and distribute its oral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid in the Chinese mainland.

____ (2022-12-15). Guangzhou scrambles to treat COVID patients. ecns.cn Major hospitals in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, have set up special operating rooms and isolation wards for COVID-19 patients as demand grows, local media reported.

WSWS (2022-12-15). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org UK pay stoppages continue on railways and postal services joined by nurses as government prepares anti-strike laws and the army to break strikes; Belgian workers to hold one-day national strike demanding energy price caps and abolition of pay rise restrictions; protests in Syrian province Suweida call for general strike over living conditions to bring down the government; many Kenyan health workers in Mombasa County defy court order and unions to end pay strike; civil servants on five-day strike in Plateau State, Nigeria over wages and pension contributions unpaid for three months…

WSWS (2022-12-15). Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service nurses strike for first time. wsws.org Mass support for the nurses means that their action has the potential to galvanise and unite the many disparate struggles of workers that are being isolated by a trade union bureaucracy doing everything to end Britain's strike wave.

manager (2022-12-15). The Little Engine That Couldn't Have Paid Sick Leave: How US Lawmakers Let Workers' Rights and Health Go Off the Rails. cepr.net Over the course of recent months, US lawmakers had a chance to come down strongly on the side of organized labor by backing railroad workers in their pursuit of paid sick leave. Instead, both Congress and the Biden administration opted to impose an agreement that the rank-and-file of four railroad unions, including the largest railroad …

teleSUR, rzr, YSM (2022-12-15). OMS espera fin de emergencia global por Covid-19 y mpox en 2023. telesurtv.net Los criterios para decidir si se levanta la emergencia internacional se valorarán el próximo enero en la reunión trimestral del comité de expertos.6…

Frances Kuo (2022-12-15). Wolf conservation impacts human health. america.cgtn.com The Endangered Wolf Center in Missouri aims to help preserve and reintroduce the endangered animals into the wild.

Bryant Arroyo, Joe Piette (2022-12-15). Health care in prisons is a crime. workers.org Bryant Arroyo and Joe Piette If you have the misfortune of being convicted of a crime, innocent or not, what's it like behind bars if you have an illness, disease or injury? Bryant Arroyo, incarcerated at State Correctional Institute at Coal Township, Pennsylvania, gave recent examples of how people there . . . |

teleSUR, odr, SH (2022-12-15). Chile informa alza de Covid-19 y acumula 4.086 contagios. telesurtv.net Chile acumula 4.967.494 casos confirmados y 62.753 fallecidos a causa del coronavirus.

____ (2022-12-15). Guangzhou taking steps to get biz back on track. ecns.cn Guangzhou, Guangdong province, is sparing no effort to attract more offshore investment and stimulate consumption as the country is optimizing its COVID-19 policies and measures.

WSWS (2022-12-15). Florida drops case against COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones in deferred prosecution agreement. wsws.org The State of Florida dismissed the malicious charge of illegal computer use against Jones on December 7 while leveling a significant fine against her along with other draconian requirements.

WSWS (2022-12-15). Video: UK nurses speak to WSWS as national strike begins. wsws.org National Health Service nurses took strike action across the UK on Thursday. They will hold another strike on December 20. The nurses walked out to demand a pay increase of 19 percent. WSWS reporters spoke to some of the nurses on picket lines about the issues in the dispute.

Ryan Kidwiler (2022-12-14). West Virginia state senator proposes coerced sterilization to curb opioid epidemic. liberationnews.org Senator Randy Smith announced that he would be co-sponsoring a bill that would prevent drug users from having children. If adopted, the bill would give drug users facing criminal charges the option of sterilization in exchange for a lighter sentence.

____ (2022-12-14). China will no longer release the figure of asymptomatic cases: NHC. ecns.cn China will no longer release the figure of asymptomatic cases, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.

____ (2022-12-14). China launches second COVID-19 booster shot. ecns.cn China will offer a second COVID-19 booster dose to certain groups who had received their first booster shot more than six months, authorities said Wednesday.

WSWS (2022-12-14). Chinese hospitals face deluge of patients with end of Zero COVID. wsws.org As soon as China ended its centralized COVID testing and lifted its primary public health restrictions, COVID cases have begun to surge rapidly across the population. Hospitals in major metropolitan cities are reporting long lines of patients seeking treatment.

teleSUR, MER (2022-12-14). Presidente venezolano: sistema de salud respondió ante Covid-19. telesurtv.net El mandatario afirmó que gracias a las estrategias aplicadas y al esfuerzo del personal sanitario pudieron mantener bajo control la pandemia.

His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganà≤ (2022-12-14). Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganà≤: The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-12-14). New York Times covers up for Biden, Trump and other COVID-19 criminals. wsws.org At bottom, the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic does not result from a medical or health care crisis but from the subordination of public health to private profit.

____ (2022-12-14). Beijing rushes to meet surging demand for medications. ecns.cn Pharmaceutical companies rushed to boost supplies as demand surges for fever and cold medications in Beijing.

____ (2022-12-14). Second booster shot available for at-risk people. ecns.cn People at high risk of contracting COVID-19 are now permitted to get a second booster shot, according to a new notice on Wednesday.

____ (2022-12-14). Eased restrictions to spur Spring Festival travel surge. ecns.cn Travel agencies have forecast that the tourism market will embrace a robust recovery during the approaching Spring Festival holiday in late January in the wake of the government's continued optimization of COVID-19 control measures.

WSWS (2022-12-14). Australian Labor government restricts COVID testing. wsws.org More reliable PCR tests will no longer be available for large sections of the population and those who are eligible will require a doctor's referral.

Stop World Control (2022-12-14). Video: The Plan. WHO Plans to Have 10 Years of Pandemics (2020-2030). "Proof that the Pandemic was Planned with a Purpose" globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on June 1, 2022 | *** | THE PLAN shows the official agenda of the World Health Organization to have ten years of ongoing pandemics, from 2020 to 2030. | This is revealed by a WHO virologist, Marion …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-14). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-14). Video: Pfizer's "Secret" Report on the Covid Vaccine. Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide. globalresearch.ca

Ethan Huff (2022-12-14). Many People Fully Vaccinated for COVID Are Now Going Blind. globalresearch.ca

imperial.ac.uk (2022-12-14). Study shows logged tropical forests are surprisingly vibrant and need protection. imperial.ac.uk Researchers find tropical forests that have been logged still retain good ecological health, and should be protected from conversion to plantations.

Verena Hinze, Tamsin Ford, Bergljot Gjelsvik, Sarah Byford, Andrea Cipriani, Jesus Montero-Marin, Poushali Ganguli (2022-12-14). [Articles] Service use and costs in adolescents with pain and suicidality: A cross-sectional study. thelancet.com In our study, adolescents with pain and suicidality reported increased contact with health, social, and educational services, which could provide an opportunity for suicide prevention. Given the diversity of identified settings, multi-sector suicide prevention strategies are paramount.