(2022-07-20). Seventh COVID-19 wave sweeps across Canada. wsws.org Every level of government from Trudeau's federal Liberals on down has made clear from their total indifference to the rampant spread of new variants that they will do nothing to stop mass infection and death, and the widespread devastation to the health of the population that will ensue from cases of Long COVID.
(2022-07-20). Medical Debt Is a Rip-Off. otherwords.org Many big business CEOs turn out to be grifters who rip off consumers, workers, and others. But the corporate con artists I consider most vile are those who profiteer from people's health care needs. | We've had such infamous, high-profile scammers as Medicare fraudster (and now Florida Senator)
(2022-07-20). Rail Workers Push To Strike. Here's Why They're Angry. popularresistance.org Freight train workers are fed up. | One conductor said he nearly missed his wife's funeral because he couldn't get time off. An engineer said he was put on a disciplinary path after having to stay home to fix a broken water heater. Other freight train workers blamed the industry's on-call, 24/7 scheduling requirements for health problems and divorces — a lifestyle they said had turned one of the best-paying blue-collar jobs in the country into one marred by misery and neglect.
(2022-07-20). What you need to know about the BA.5 omicron variant. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cases of COVID-19 are once again surging in the U.S., and the BA.5 omicron variant is fueling this latest wave, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, says the BA.5 variant is hypercontagious and is contributing to increases in hospitalizations and ICU admissions. A new study published in Nature found the variant was four times more resistant to messenger RNA vaccines than earlier strains of…
(2022-07-20). Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas. globalresearch.ca To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), Follow …
(2022-07-20). Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas. globalresearch.ca
(2022-07-20). A Potential Historic Political Shift Is Taking Place Among Evangelical Christians. commondreams.org Christians are splitting with the religious right over Trump, Covid, and Black Lives Matter, creating opportunities for those interested in social justice.
(2022-07-20). National Education Association's annual convention ignores plight of US teachers fighting COVID and austerity. wsws.org This year's gathering further exposed the chasm between the NEA officials and rank-and-file educators who are battling COVID-19, stagnant wages and further cuts to school funding.
(2022-07-20). Christian Nationalists want to Control your Body: How Dobbs Is an Attack on Us All. juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com ) When I was the age that my daughter is now, my favorite sweatshirt had the words "Choice, Choice, Choice, Choice" in rainbow letters across its front. My mom got me that sweatshirt at a 1989 rally in response to Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. In that case, the Supreme Court upheld …
(2022-07-20). Beihai's first makeshift hospital starts to receive COVID-19 patients. ecns.cn Interior view of the first makeshift hospital in Beihai, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 19, 2022. It started to receive patients, offering 600 beds for COVID-19 treatment on Tuesday. Beihai reported 134 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 104 asymptomatic carriers.
(2022-07-20). Mobile cabin hospital in China's Guangxi begins taking in COVID-19 patients. ecns.cn The mobile cabin hospital in Beihai, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China began taking in patients on the early morning of July 19.
(2022-07-20). Video interview with Zero-COVID activist Dr David Berger, repubIished with transcription. wsws.org We are republishing the April video interview with Dr Berger, along with an edited text transcript, to assist those fighting AHPRA's blatant attempt to gag this principled fighter for Zero-COVID and consistent opponent of the Australian governments' homicidal "let it rip" policies.
(2022-07-20). Anuncian uso obligatorio del nasobuco en medios de transporte colectivos y círculos infantiles. cubadebate.cu En la tarde de este martes, el Grupo temporal de trabajo para la prevención y el control de la Covid-19, ante el incremento de casos positivos que se ha producido en las últimas semanas, retomó, reforzó y aprobó nuevas medidas para el enfrentamiento a la enfermedad, que incluyen: Establecer el uso obligatorio del nasobuco en medios de transporte colectivos y círculos infantiles y aplicar el segundo refuerzo a la población comprendida entre los 19 años y hasta los 49 años.
(2022-07-20). PANDEMICS ARE PROSPERITY, SICKNESS IS HEALTH, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. indybay.org The Pandemic and Social Collapse…
(2022-07-20). Australian Treasurer delivers "confronting" news on cutting real wages and social spending. wsws.org Jim Chalmers' remarks represent an intensification of the Labor government's offensive, backed by the trade unions, to force working-class households to bear the burden of an escalating cost of living and COVID-19 crisis.
(2022-07-20). China's grain production expected to remain stable in 2022. ecns.cn China is expected to see stable grain production this year, despite challenges including rare autumn floods last year, sporadic resurgences of COVID-19 cases and drastic fluctuations in the global farm produce market.
(2022-07-20). Omicron able to infect wide range of animals. ecns.cn The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus can infect a broader range of animals than the original strain and the Delta strain, underscoring the significance of monitoring for the virus in susceptible species to prevent further mutations and spillover to humans.
(2022-07-20). Sinovac initiates clinical trial for quadrivalent influenza vaccine in Chile. ecns.cn Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a biopharmaceutical product provider in China, announced on Tuesday that a phase-3 clinical trial for its inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine was initiated in the Republic of Chile.
(2022-07-19). Brian Becker On Socialism And The US Campaign Against China. popularresistance.org In the US, where I live, more than one million people have died. More than 60 million workers lost their jobs in 2020. More than 100,000 small businesses were sent into bankruptcy. While the US was plunged into an economic recession and a healthcare crisis of unprecedented proportions, the Chinese government pursued a policy preventing such loss of life inside a country with 1.4 billion people. This would have been impossible had it not been for the policy, guidance, and unified approach of the government. That does not mean that there aren't still significant challenges, but this was a huge achievement. Also, wh…
(2022-07-19). There was an unexpected 40% increase in "all cause deaths" in 2021 in the 18-49 year old age bracket. marktaliano.net READ MORE: COVID-19: "Excess deaths" or State-sponsored "homicide"? Death by Covid Vaccine Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization Breaking: Fifth Largest Life Insurance Company in the US Paid Out 163% More for Deaths of Working People Ages 18-64 in 2021. Total Claims/Benefits Up $6 Billion Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre …
(2022-07-19). Omicron Drives Surge in Venezuela's COVID-19 Cases. orinocotribune.com This Sunday night, Venezuela's Presidential Commission for the Prevention, Care, and Control of COVID-19 reported that 672 new infections were registered in the country in the last 24 hours, of which 666 cases were due to community transmission, and six were imported. This was reported by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez Rodríguez reported that the state in which the largest number of new cases occurred is Miranda (272), with…
(2022-07-19). Why the U.S. failed to control COVID-19: incompetence, class violence, deception, and lies. mronline.org 
The United States (together with its Western allies) always tries to tell China what to do in managing COVID-19 outbreaks, and since the whole city of Shanghai was under lockdown, the U.S. media seems to have even more reasons to criticize China's anti-virus policy.
(2022-07-19). A Marxist view of the Asian American National Questions. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Over the last two years, hundreds of thousands of Asian Americans and their supporters have taken to the streets to protest the wave of violence against Asian Americans. From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a Burmese family was assaulted in Texas; to the Atlanta Spa killing in April 2021, where six of the eight people killed were Asian American women, this wave of violence against Asian Americans inspired protests across the country, even including middle-school students. | These protests were the largest ever to draw together Asian Americans of different nationalities. This was in pa…
(2022-07-19). Extinction Rebellion Break Glass At News UK On Hottest Day On Record. popularresistance.org At 6: 30am this morning, 2 people from Extinction Rebellion carefully cracked 2 windows at the entrance of the News UK building at London Bridge. At the same time, 4 others — including a scientist — chalk sprayed "TELL THE TRUTH" and "40 DEGREES = DEATH" on the front of the building, and pasted recent copies of The Sun headlines about the heatwave onto windows. Special care was taken to ensure no one was hurt when the windows were cracked. The action comes just two days after six healthcare professionals, including two GPs, were arrested for breaking windows at JP Morgan's Canary Wharf HQ. | This act o…
(2022-07-19). Controlling Bodies and Subverting Democracy. tomdispatch.com When I was the age that my daughter is now, my favorite sweatshirt had the words "Choice, Choice, Choice, Choice" in rainbow letters across its front. My mom got me that sweatshirt at a 1989 rally in response to Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. In that case, the Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law restricting the use of state funds and facilities for abortion, an early attempt to eat away at Roe v. Wade. And though many adults in the Wisconsin neighborhood where I grew up thought that message inappropriate for a 13 year old, I wore it proudly. Even then, I understood that it spoke not just to a person's r…
(2022-07-19). Surge of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant sweeps Europe, North and South America, Japan. wsws.org Every country but China is turning a blind eye to the catastrophe wreaked by repeated waves of COVID-19.
(2022-07-19). COVID-19 ARDS and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Family Members After ICU Discharge—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Among family members of patients with COVID-19 ARDS included in our study, half were indeed spouses. Dr Lin and colleagues suggest that as these family members were quarantined, this might have been an additional source of PTSD. However, recent findings seem to challenge this hypothesis. In a large longitudinal analysis, Aknin et al reported that changes in mental health measures during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic were small. Moreover, the negative association between policy stringency and mental health was mostly mediated by observed physical distancing and perceptions of the government…
(2022-07-19). Covid-19 Crisis: The Unspoken Objective of the WEF's "Global Reset" is to "Eliminate the Poor" globalresearch.ca
(2022-07-19). Australian hospitals in meltdown as governments allow COVID to take off. wsws.org Masks, contact-tracing and testing have all been finished with, or severely undermined, meaning that the current surge will be worse than any previous wave.
(2022-07-19). AFT says mass exodus of teachers can be stopped. peoplesworld.org 
BOSTON —Even before the coronavirus pandemic made everything worse, some 300,000 teachers and school support staffers were leaving the profession every year. Now the Teachers (AFT) have stepped forward with a comprehensive report analyzing why—and what to do about it. The 56-page report, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? from a 25-member AFT task force, says a …
(2022-07-19). "Our brothers and sisters are being worked to death": UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman backs Ventra Evart workers' fight against sweatshop conditions. wsws.org Will Lehman denounced the UAW bureaucracy for blocking a strike and helping Ventra management stockpile parts even as COVID-19 spreads through the plant and workers are hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
(2022-07-19). OMS alerta sobre nueva ola de covid en Europa y llama a prepararse para el otoño y el invierno. cubadebate.cu La Organización Mundial de la Salud informó que los casos de covid en Europa se han triplicado en las últimas seis semanas y representan casi la mitad de los reportados en el mundo. Es una situación similar a la del verano de 2021, con casi 3 000 muertos semanales, dijo la OMS, que llamó a los Gobiernos a prepararse para el otoño y el invierno próximos.
(2022-07-19). Britain's leading health journals the BMJ and HSJ warn: "The NHS is not living with Covid, it's dying from it." wsws.org This week the World Health Organization reported that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalisation rates have doubled.
(2022-07-19). Abuse by Wellpath LLC healthcare in Pennsylvania prisons spurs lawsuits. peoplesworld.org 
Daniel Newberg arrived at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Collegeville (SCI Phoenix) in January 2020. He informed the correctional officers and nurses processing his intake that he had a history of attempted suicide and would need his prescribed medications for bipolar disorder and depression. Over the next several days, the staff ignored the obvious …
(2022-07-19). COVID Antigen Test Results Are Scientifically Invalid. Confirmed by the Pharmaceutical "Intended Use" Advisory. globalresearch.ca
(2022-07-19). The Covid Crisis in Japan: Lockdown, Economic Crisis, the mRNA Vaccine, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. globalresearch.ca
(2022-07-19). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.
(2022-07-19). COVID-19 ARDS and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Family Members After ICU Discharge. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent study demonstrated that family members of ICU patients with ARDS due to COVID-19 exhibited higher rates of PTSD symptoms than family members of patients with ARDS due to other causes. As possible explanations of this finding, the authors considered restricted visitation, communication barriers related to personal protective equipment requirements, reduced contact with medical staff leading to decreased trust, and substantial care burden for COVID-19 survivors. However, the restricted visitation, communication barriers, and limited contact with staff due to the pandemic applied equally to al…
(2022-07-19). Remote Patient Monitoring During COVID-19. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The authors of a recent Viewpoint recommended "implementing continuous pulse oximetry and heart rate monitoring for all hospitalized patients and ED [emergency department] patients," despite acknowledging that there is limited evidence to support the safety and efficacy of this practice. In support of their recommendation, they cited the results of a retrospective cohort study showing an association between continuous monitoring and reduced mortality but failed to mention that the study population was limited to patients receiving sedatives and/or analgesics. Indeed, there are certain populations wh…
(2022-07-19). OMS: situación de Covid-19 en Europa es similar a la de 2021. telesurtv.net La OMS señaló que en Europa se han registrado 3 millones de nuevos casos de Covid-19 en las últimas seis semanas.
(2022-07-19). Mix-and-Match COVID-19 Boosters After Inactivated Virus Vaccine. jamanetwork.com A booster shot of mRNA or viral vector SARS-CoV-2 vaccine after 2 doses of an inactivated virus vaccine better protected patients against severe disease and death from COVID-19 than 3 doses of the inactivated virus vaccine, according to a large-scale study in The Lancet Global Health. The findings give additional support for a mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 boosters, the authors wrote.
(2022-07-19). Remote Patient Monitoring During COVID-19—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In our recent Viewpoint, we suggested that health systems should consider implementing continuous pulse oximetry as part of a harm reduction strategy. In his letter, Dr Kenik equates the absence of evidence with evidence of no effect. The retrospective study that we referenced was limited to patients receiving sedatives or analgesics. This does not imply that other patients would not benefit; other patients were not studied. The health system in that study expanded continuous monitoring to all patients, demonstrating significant benefit, with 0 deaths occurring from drug-induced respiratory depression in…
(2022-07-19). Statements of support from Australia, New Zealand and the US for Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org The WSWS continues to receive statements denouncing the Australia Health Practitioners Regulatory Authority's "disciplining" and threatened deregistration of Dr. David Berger, an Australian physician, over his social media criticism of governments' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2022-07-19). Cuba reporta 51 nuevos casos de COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 56 altas médicas. cubadebate.cu Al cierre de este lunes 18 de julio, Cuba reportó 51 nuevos casos de COVID-19. Actualmente, hay 321 casos activos, informó el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap) en su parte diario.
(2022-07-19). Bolivia reporta alza de casos de Covid-19 debido a nuevas cepas. telesurtv.net Desde la llegada de la pandemia, Bolivia acumula 21.982 decesos y 969.652 casos confirmados de la enfermedad.
(2022-07-18). COVID Test Insert Admits Results are Scientifically Invalid. marktaliano.net 
Notice the following under "INTENDED USE": "Positive results indicate the presence of viral antigens, but clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine infection status. Positive results do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease." (emphasis …
(2022-07-18). Safe consumption sites: End the war on people who use drugs! workers.org 
New York City 2020. In the shadow of the COVID-19 epidemic are two others: the opioid and overdose epidemics. Since the start of epidemics, there have been thousands of deaths from overdoses, even when the people who OD don't even know they've consumed opioids. What is the difference between the . . . |
(2022-07-18). AFT's Weingarten: Teachers rise after 'brutal' years of politics and pandemic. peoplesworld.org 
BOSTON —After what Teachers President Randi Weingarten called a "brutal" two years facing the coronavirus pandemic and political fire from the right—including the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court—the nation's teachers must still rise to action to beat back both the continuing plague and the radical reactionaries, she says. And all through this, she …