Watsonville Community Hospital Nurses to Hold Shift Change Actions To Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19
California Nurses Association | indybay.org | 2020-04-01
To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and preparedness for frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital will hold a silent vigil and solidarity stand on Monday, March 30, 2020. Registered nurses are calling on Watsonville Community Hospital to reverse its decision to weaken personal protective equipment standards and cancel staff rather than preparing for a surge of COVID-19 patients.
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Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | zcomm.org | 2020-04-01
The case has never been clearer for a transition to Medicare for All, but its achievement clashes with the Democratic Party's decades-long hostility to funding the social-welfare state…
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"Chinese Virus" Rhetoric Shows Ineptness of U.S. Politicians
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-01
The Western mass media is extremely busy frightening its own citizens and the entire world with statements like: A leaked government document has suggested up to 500,000 people could die from coronavirus if the disease is able to infect up to 80 per cent of the country. That's what The Independent wrote on 26 February …
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The White House and the CDC are United in Stupidity
Clark T. Scott | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-01
On Saturday, I received a postcard of guidelines from the white house and the Centers for Disease Control
To Develop Vaccine, Pharma and Government Will Have to Break Old Patterns
Rachel M. Cohen | zcomm.org | 2020-04-01
One of the major lessons of the H1N1 shortage is to under-promise and over-deliver…
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Russia sees drop in new Covid-19 cases, but cause for alarm as almost half of newly infected in Moscow are under 45
rt.com | 2020-04-01
A total of 440 more people have tested positive for coronavirus over the last 24 hours, in Russia, a drop from the previous day's 500. The nationwide death toll has risen by seven to 24. Moscow remains the disease's main hotspot. | …
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Canada's governments exempt sections of industry from lockdowns, imperilling workers' lives
wsws.org | 2020-04-01
Placing profits before workers' lives, Ontario and Quebec have declared businesses "essential" that have nothing to do with providing healthcare, food, power or other life necessities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/01/esse…
COVID-19 & SF DPH SEIU 1021 Community Healthcare Centers Workers Under Attack
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-01
San Francisco DPH community center healthcare workers are being forced into dangerous positions without proper PPE protection that may contaminate them with COVID-19. SEIU 1021 SF DPH Community Healthcare Center Chapter VP Cheryl Thornton speaks out.
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Dominican Hospital's (mis)treatment of (disabled) homeless people
John Colby | indybay.org | 2020-04-01
As an advocate for (disabled) homeless people who blogs about this advocacy (thus I'm an independent journalist), I've come across numerous incidents of discrimination by Dignity Health's Dominican Hospital against (disabled) homeless people. I obtained a media statement about how Dignity Health's Dominican Hospital will (equally) serve homeless COVID-19 victims. Please report non-compliance to me.
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Livestream: COVID-19 and Climate Implications for Public Health
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-04-01
Onlin via livestream…
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Minnesota: Nurses at M Health hospitals vote "No confidence" on COVID-19 response
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-01
Minneapolis, MN – Union nurses represented by Minnesota Nurses Association at five hospitals voted overwhelmingly that they have "no confidence" in M Health management's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The hospitals where the votes took place are Fairview Southdale, St. Joseph's, St. John's, Bethesda, and the University of Minnesota Medical Center. | The nurses are calling for proper personal protection equipment and information on reassignments. Nurses are working in units where they not being given the proper training on precautions to stay safe and do not have the necessary equipment to protect th…
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Former WHO Director: 8-Week Suppression Strategy Could Stop US COVID Crisis in Its Tracks
Nafeez Ahmed | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-01
"We know we can get this under control," says Dr Anthony Costello, a former Director at the World Health Organization (WHO) where he headed up maternal, child and adolescent health. "The problem is that Europe has been too slow to act compared with Asia; and America is now facing a huge crisis." Costello, who is…
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The economy in the times of the coronavirus
R Hickel, Ingar Solty & Daniel Stelter | indybay.org | 2020-04-01
Most people's thinking is determined by the development of the Covid-19 crisis, the return of "the hour of executive power" (Gerhard A. Ritter), i.e. state of exception legislation, and the fears which it evokes as well as the economic measures which appear to be in response to the health crisis.
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Spain Nationalized Private Clinics To Fight COVID-19
Sebastiaan Faber | zcomm.org | 2020-04-01
Spain faced the second worst infection rate in Europe, and took control of the country's private health care companies to improve its response. What does this mean for Spain's public health care system going forward?
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Quebec tries to extort concessions from health care and other public sector workers
wsws.org | 2020-04-01
By offering their "full cooperation" to the CAQ government during the coronavirus pandemic, the unions have opened the door for an intensified state attack on public sector workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/01/quep…
Iran coronavirus death toll rises to over 3,000
rt.com | 2020-04-01
A total of 3,036 coronavirus patients have died in Iran, with 138 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported on Wednesday. | The ministry's spokesman, Kianush Jahanpur, said the country now has a total of 47,593 people infected, with 2,987 new cases in the past 24 hours, while 15,473 people have recovered. | Speaking on Wednesday in a televised cabinet meeting, President Hassan Rouhani said that the coronavirus crisis is "a great opportunity for Americans to apologize… and to lift the unjust and unfair sanctions on Iran." | One of the worst hit countries in the region, Iran has urged the inter…
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With 30,000 dead in Europe from COVID-19: Workers strike to demand safe working conditions
wsws.org | 2020-04-01
The most basic health and safety measures are being flouted by employers throughout the continent.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/01/euro…
Covid-19 pandemic poses gravest threat to world's poorest countries
wsws.org | 2020-04-01
Hundreds of millions of people across the globe live in homes that were detrimental to their health and safety even before the onset of the coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/01/poor…
War Commentary Issue #2
War Commentary | indybay.org | 2020-04-01
Our latest issue, formatted for easy printing at home. Print out a stack of 20 and leave them at your local corner store, grocery, or gas station. Good luck, stay healthy. Long live anarchy!
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'Ask the government': Former Celtics star claims NBA season could resume at classified US Air Force site Area 51
rt.com | 2020-04-01
Having held the 2019 Summer League at the University of Nevada, NBA chiefs could find a novel solution to ending the season at a less conventional base in the state
Spain: COVID-19 cases over 100,000, deaths reach 9,053
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-01
In total, Spain has confirmed 102,136 cases of COVID-19, and 9,053 fatalities, according to data released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Wednesday.Over the last 24-hour period, 864 people lost their lives
Muslim charity ensures lonely Australian pensioners don't starve | amid lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-01
Struggling to cope with the extreme stress of shielding themselves from the highly infectious disease, the elderly are most vulnerable in face of the spread of the deadly coronavirus.A Muslim charity in coronavirus-stricken Australia brought relief to self-isolating lonely pensioners, expressing that they are not alone in this fight.Elderly residents lacking a support network were driven to tears after receiving care packages filled with essential goods."It's quite heartbreaking because most of them never expected something like this would happen. One person yesterday – he was in tears – he was like, who are you?
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Doctors say contact lens wearers should switch to glasses
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-01
Contact lens wearers would do well to switch to glasses for now, during the coronavirus pandemic, according to medical experts.Wearing contacts could put you at greater risk of contracting coronavirus as well as conjunctivitis
Turkish TV heartthrob Kƒ±vanàß Tatlƒ±tuƒü hospitalized on Covid-19 suspicion
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-01
Turkish television star Kƒ±vanàß Tatlƒ±tuƒü was hospitalized on Wednesday on Covid-19 suspicion after the actor started showing symptoms of the respiratory disease that has taken over the world.In a tweet, the actor said he started showing symptoms after he had been self-isolating with his wife at home for 15 days, after which he reported to a nearby hospital and has since been under observation as he awaits his test results."I'm doing well and am waiting for my test results. Please don't worry about me. Stay healthy," the tweet read.After originating in Wuhan last December…
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'There's no better present': Chinese businesses send masks to European clients
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-01
With a dire shortage of protective face masks in Europe, even for health workers, a senior manager at a Spanish furniture store group was surprised to hear business partners and staff in China offering to send him masks.The starting point of the coronavirus pandemic, and for weeks its epicenter, China has seen new cases fall over the past weeks.The death toll from the respiratory disease is now higher in Europe, particularly in Italy and Spain, causing a rush to find protective gear."I worked in China for several years. When you're there, they give you things like tea, liquor or cookies. But up until now the supp…
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Oman reports its first COVID-19 death
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-01
The Omani Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the country's first coronavirus death, along with 18 new confirmed cases."The total number of infections recorded in the Sultanate increased to 210, after recording 18 new infections," the ministry said in a statement cited by the official Oman News Agency.The ministry noted that 34 people have so far recovered from the virus. On Tuesday, the Omani government allowed civil servants to work remotely as part of measures to fight the outbreak.After originating in Wuhan last December, the virus known as COVID-19 has spread to at least 180 countries and regions across t…
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Russian Doctors Set Up Clinic in Bergamo for COVID-19 Patients – Defence Ministry
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-01
BERGAMO, Italy (Sputnik) – Russian medical teams together with their Italian counterparts have begun setting up a hospital for COVID-19 patients in the Lombardy city of Bergamo, one of the hotbeds of the novel coronavirus epidemic in Europe, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
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We Need the Military Out: Bollywood Veteran Calls for Emergency Response to COVID-19
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-01
New Delhi (Sputnik): India is currently going through a national lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus, which has infected over 1,200 people in the country and cost 35 lives so far, according to the latest data released by the nation's Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
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COVID-19: Lockdown Abrupt, India should Print Notes to Fight Pandemic, Says Nobel Laureate Banerjee
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-01
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a complete national lock-down to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on 24 March for a period of 21 days. Though the economic cost of the health crisis has not been estimated by the federal government, some media sources have put it at $115 billion.
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Macron and France in the deluge
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-01
Healthcare John MullenIssue 1259 France COVID-19 ParisApril 1, 2020The COVID-19 epidemic in France has already claimed 2000 lives, and it is early days yet. | Two presidential speeches, on March 12 and 16, have trans…
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Domestic violence is a contagious disease set to get worse
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-01
Feminism Chloe de SilvaIssue 1259 Australia COVID-19 domestic and family violenceApril 1, 2020Life under COVID-19 just got scarier for many women. Isolation at home is not the safest choice for…
greenleft.org.au/content/domestic-violence-contagious-disease-set-get-worse
Right-Wing Media Joined Trump in Enabling Health Disaster
Karl Grossman | fair.org | 2020-03-31
"If Hitler succeeds in pointing the way of peace and order and an ethical development which has been destroyed throughout the world by war, he will have accomplished a measure of good not only for his own people but for all humanity."–William Randolph Hearst (New York Times, 8/23/1934) | The downplaying of the coronavirus by the right-wing press in the United States was preceded decades ago by the media owned by William Randolph Hearst enabling a different sort of toxicity by promoting a positive image of Nazism in the US.
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Bolivia: People Break Quarantine to Protest for Lack of Food
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-31
Bolivia's coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez was emphatically rejected for failing to keep its promises in Riberalta city where the population took to the streets on Tuesday morning to protest against the lack of provisions and food. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Health Minister Reports First Death Due to Covid-19 | "The government locks us up and hunger wil…
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Already Faced with Famine and War, Yemenis Fear Saudi Arabia is Weaponizing COVID-19
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-31
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Saudi Arabia has engaged in a number of questionable practices that have Yemenis fearing the Kingdom may be intentionally trying to spread the virus.
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Trump's Chernobyl Moment: the US May Lose Its Status as World Superpower and Not Recover
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-31
The US may be reaching its "Chernobyl moment" as it fails to lead in combating the coronavirus epidemic. As with the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in 1986, a cataclysm is exposing systemic failings that have already weakened US hegemony in the world. Whatever the outcome of the pandemic, nobody is today looking to…
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Communities Enduring Racism & Poverty Will Suffer Most Due to COVID-19
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-31
As the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States tops 3,100, states are demanding ventilators and medical supplies. Michigan is a growing hot spot and struggling to prepare for a surge in cases, but President Trump has repeatedly attacked Michigan's governor, calling her "that woman." We speak with the former director of the Detroit Health Department, Abdul El-Sayed. He's a physician and epidemiologist, and his new book is just out today, "Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic." His recent piece for The Guardian is headlined "Coronavirus is exploiting an underlying…
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Coronavirus Makes It More Clear Than Ever: Health Care Is a Human Right
Jesse Jackson | commondreams.org | 2020-03-31
Nurses and doctors rallying for Medicare for All in Chicago over the weekend outside the annual gathering of the American Medical Association which currently opposes the plan to make healthcare coverage in the United States available to all. (Photo: National Nurses United/flickr/cc | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Corona is More Than a Health Disaster: It's a Human Calamity
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-31
The New York Times of March 20, asks rhetorically: "Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?" The coronavirus, known as COVID-19, was declared a pandemic by WHO's Director General, Dr. Tedros, on 30 January 2020, when outside of China there were only 150 WHO-registered infections. This declaration as a pandemic
'Matter of life & death': Trump's Covid-19 task force projects up to 240,000 Americans will die even under strict social isolation
rt.com | 2020-03-31
Senior members of the White House Covid-19 task force said Americans should prepare for at least 100,000 deaths from the pandemic, as the US president warned that following distancing guidelines is now a matter of life and death. | "The answer is yes," said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), when asked at a White House press conference on Tuesday if the US could really see between 100,000 and 240,000 fatalities in the outbreak. He added that he "hoped" containment measures could reduce the number. | Without the drastic social distancing efforts over the next 30 days …
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COVID-19 Vaccine Will Take At Least 1 Year: EU Medicines Agency
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-31
The development of a vaccine against the new coronavirus will take at least a year, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said Tuesday. | RELATED: | Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful in Treating COVID-19 | According to the EMA, it could be "at least a year before a COVID-19 vaccine is ready for approval and there are sufficient quantities to allow widespread use" worldwide. | The Amsterdam-based agency explained that it was based on current data and the time it took to develop ot…
telesurenglish.net/news/EMA-COVID-19-Vac…
Amazon-owned grocery chain workers stage 'sickout' for better safety & benefits as retail giants hit by sweeping strikes
rt.com | 2020-03-31
Whole Foods employees have called in sick from work en masse to demand better pay, benefits and a safer working environment amid the coronavirus outbreak. They join the Amazon and Instacart workers already on strike. | Whole Worker, a group representing employees of the Amazon-owned Whole Foods grocery chain, called for a mass "sick-out" on Tuesday demanding hazard pay for those working during the epidemic, personal protection equipment and in-store safety measures, free testing and treatment for employees,…
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'This is NUTS!' Russiagaters see red over Putin's planeload of corona-aid for Trump, queue to look gift-horse in mouth
rt.com | 2020-03-31
Russophobic pundits and red-baiting blue-checkmarks are gasping in horror and floating bizarre theories as Moscow sends a planeload of much-needed medical supplies to the US amid its worsening coronavirus epidemic. | News that a Russian cargo plane laden with medical supplies and personal protection equipment would soon depart for the US, a gift from the Kremlin to its coronavirus-stricken rival, has the usual suspects running around in circles screeching about ulterior motives. | While President Donald Trump's announcement on Monday that "Russia sent us a very, very large planeload of things, medical equipmen…
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Covid-19: When will we get out of lockdown?
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-31
Experts disagree on how long it could take to lift the UK's restrictions on daily life fully, but most are hoping some will ease over the summer.Are we in for the long haul?It seems so, yes. England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries has suggested normal life will not resume for at least six months.Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia (UEA), says it is plausible that if lots of people have had the virus already, restrictions could ease in June.However, he says that is a big if and nobody can really predict the end of the epidemic. | Stay at home and save lives.?&#…
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Coronavirus poses latest threat to battered health system in DR Congo
news.un.org | 2020-03-31
The looming threat of the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 is just the latest challenge to the beleaguered health care system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is struggling with deadly measles and cholera epidemics that have killed thousands of children over the past year, the UN children's fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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As Israel's Netanyahu uses Coronavirus to Consolidate Power, his Chief Rival Caves In
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-31
Benny Gantz, the former Israeli general turned party leader, agreed late last week to join his rival Benjamin Netanyahu in an "emergency government" to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. Two weeks ago he had won a wafer-thin majority vote in the parliament that gave him first shot at trying to put together a coalition government. …
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Amid the crisis, let's name and shame the companies treating workers 'like rats'
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-03-31
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed both the best and worst of people. Communities around the UK are helping each other via mutual aid groups. Many small businesses are doing their best to support people through the lockdown. Meanwhile, some large companies have redefined the very definition of disaster capitalism. In their chase for profit, they're putting workers at risk, and one stands accused of treating employees "like rats". | "Cradle of disease": | The GMB union sent a su…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/03/31/amid-the-crisis-lets-name-and-shame-the-companies-treating-workers-like-rats/
China: Wuhan Hospitals Overcome Collapse, Focus on Severe Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-31
With the worst time of the COVID-19 pandemic over, nine hospitals in Wuhan are focused on treating 1,459 patients and 493 critically ill patients who remain in the city that was the epicenter of the disease. | RELATED: | China Gradually Back to Normal After the COVID-19 Pandemic | The good news is that 269 people were discharged in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 46,002 to date. However, health authorities reported 23 deaths in the past week. | Neither new cases nor suspic…
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Cat-astrophe in the making? ANOTHER feline tests positive for coronavirus, this time in Hong Kong
rt.com | 2020-03-31
A pet cat has tested positive for the dreaded Covid-19 coronavirus in Hong Kong, after apparently contracting the disease from its owner. Last week, another feline turned out to have the virus in Belgium. | The Hong Kong cat patient was sent to a special animal quarantine facility on Monday, after its owner, a 25-year-old woman, was confirmed to have contracted the disease. Samples collected from the feline's oral, nasal and rectal cavities tested positive for the virus, but it did not show any symptoms. | "The cat has not shown any signs of disease," a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation…
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Limiting Trump's Screen Time Isn't 'Censorship,' It's Journalism
Neil deMause | fair.org | 2020-03-31
Choosing to keep cameras trained on the president necessarily means devoting less time to other stories that might actually inform viewers about the course of the pandemic and how to fight it–whether it's talking to infectious disease experts on what measures are necessary to limit the death toll, or reporting on other nations' successes and failures.
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Coronavirus hasn't stopped bombs falling in Yemen. And our government's complicit in death
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-03-31
On 30 March, airstrikes continued in Yemen. This came only five days after a promised ceasefire intended to help Yemen's healthcare system prepare for the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But with the whole world in crisis, it's vital we don't forget that the UK is still complicit in arming devastating and destructive attacks on Yemen. | Crisis: | Saudi Arabia has been leading a brutal…
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