2022-09-11: News Headlines

Staff (2022-09-11). China and Latin America Set to Deepen Cooperation in Technology, Satellite Communications, Chinese Foreign Ministry Announces. orinocotribune.com China stands ready to further enhance and expand practical cooperation with Latin American countries, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday, September 8, after the two sides recently agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as technology and satellite communications. | China-Latin America cooperation has been continuing to expand in a growing number of areas in recent years despite some external factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the US' intensifying attempt to undermine China-Latin America ties. | "From jointly guaranteeing food security to mutual access to each…

____ (2022-09-11). China automobile sector maintains rapid growth momentum. ecns.cn China's automobile industry continued to see robust growth in production and sales in August despite COVID-19 outbreaks, industrial data showed Friday.

Gérard Delépine (2022-09-11). Covid-19 Vaccines Lead to New Infections and Mortality: The Evidence is Overwhelming. globalresearch.ca Vaccination has spread worldwide. And everywhere it has been followed by a dramatic rise in new infections and mortality. How many deaths and severe accidents will it take for governments, WHO, health agencies FDA, EMA, to look at the proven results of this experimental pseudo-vaccination?

WSWS (2022-09-11). Stellantis workers strike Kokomo Casting Plant over health and safety. wsws.org The UAW International sanctioned a walkout by 1,000 hourly workers at the Stellantis Kokomo Casting Plant Saturday morning over local issues, scheduling the strike for a weekend where no production was scheduled.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-11). Video: Has Justin Trudeau Been Duly Vaccinated? Registered Nurse Expresses Doubt on Authenticity of Trudeau's Vaccine Jab. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-09-11). Cuba reporta 36 nuevos casos de COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 28 altas médicas. cubadebate.cu Al cierre de este sábado 10 de septiembre, Cuba reportó 36 nuevos casos de COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 28 altas médicas. Actualmente hay 124 casos activos, informó el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap) en su parte diario este domingo.

_____ (2022-09-10). NYT Scolds China for Not 'Learning to Live'—or Die—With Covid. popularresistance.org Four and a half million people. | That's how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results. | Instead, China has had 15,000 deaths from Covid—most of these from an outbreak in the spring of 2022 in Hong Kong, which has its own healthcare system. | Meanwhile, the United States has lost more than a million people to Covid since the pandemic began. Deaths currently continue at the rate of about 450 a day, which would add up to roughly 160,000 a year if present trends continue.

____ (2022-09-10). China has sent anti-pandemic experts to 34 countries. ecns.cn China has dispatched medical experts to 34 countries to fight the COVID pandemic since it broke out, Chinese authorities said on Friday.

Richard Horton (2022-09-10). [Comment] Offline: The health of the Uyghur people is all of our concern. thelancet.com Michelle Bachelet's publication on , of an Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, in her final minutes as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, provoked headlines for a day and has since been quietly forgotten. That indifference cannot be tolerated. Her report documents abuses of such severity that all health agencies should intervene to demand information, access, and remedies to the evidence of mistreatment of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China.

Guy Crittenden (2022-09-10). That Covid Mask Is Giving You Lung Cancer. globalresearch.ca First published on November 4, 2020 | I happen to know a thing or two about masks and safety. Why? Because for 25 years I was the editor of an award-winning trade magazine called HazMat Management that covered such topics as …

Christina Yek, Sarah Warner, Alex Mancera, Sameer S Kadri (2022-09-10). [Correspondence] Misclassification bias in estimating clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2 variants. thelancet.com Tommy Nyberg and colleagues1 use an unvaccinated cohort to show differences between the intrinsic severity of the omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants of SARS-CoV-2 without confounding by pre-existing immunity. They report an 80% reduction in the severity of the omicron compared with the delta variant, suggesting the possibility of living through the COVID-19 pandemic without social and economic disruptions. However, reliance on SARS-CoV-2 test positivity to identify cases of COVID-19 and on all-cause hospitalisations and deaths as outcomes could have introduced misclassification bias and residual c…

The Lancet (2022-09-10). [Editorial] The Global Fund: replenishment and future-proofing. thelancet.com From Sept 19 to 22, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will gather international donors to replenish funding for its vital core mission towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: ending AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria and building resilient and sustainable health systems. But the global context of this replenishment is unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered vulnerable health systems even more fragile and derailed crucial programmes across the Global Fund's disease portfolio.

Peter Koenig (2022-09-10). Beware of the QR Code, Remember Agenda ID2020? globalresearch.ca It's Agenda ID2020 on steroids. It's the worldwide invasion of the QR code — QR coding of everything, all of your most intimate data, health, personal behaviors, habits — track records of where we have been and even where we may be planning to go. Nothing will escape the QR code. Nobody talks about it.

Rabbi Hillel Handler (2022-09-10). Stop the Covid Holocaust! Open Letter. globalresearch.ca

Sarah Dyball, Ben Parker, Ian N Bruce (2022-09-10). [Correspondence] Ianalumab in Sjà∂gren's syndrome: what can we learn from lupus trials? thelancet.com We congratulate Simon J Bowman and colleagues1 on the success of ianalumab in primary Sjà∂gren's syndrome, particularly after the paucity of successful phase 2 randomised controlled trials in the condition. This trial showed an improvement in disease activity (ie, the European League Against Rheumatism [EULAR] Sjà∂gren's Syndrome Disease Activity Index score), whereas symptom burden and health-related quality of life (ie, the EULAR Sjà∂gren's Syndrome Patient Reported Index, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue, short form 36, and the Patient Global Assessement scale) did no…

WSWS (2022-09-10). Australia ends daily COVID reporting after deadliest month of the pandemic. wsws.org Governments are denying the population the most basic information about the pandemic, as it claims more lives than ever.

Sharmila Devi (2022-09-10). [World Report] Pakistan floods: impact on food security and health systems. thelancet.com Rainfall caused by climate change has put more than 6 ∑4 million people in need of humanitarian help and exacerbated ongoing challenges in food security and health-care systems. Sharmila Devi reports.

Dr. Russell Blaylock (2022-09-10). The COVID Pandemic and the mRNA Vaccine: What Is the Truth? Dr. Russell L. Blaylock. globalresearch.ca The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history. Official lies in an unending stream led by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and UN agencies.

TeleSUR, mcs, JDO (2022-09-10). Panamá flexibilizará protocolos de Covid-19 para viajeros. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con las autoridades sanitarias, más del 80 por ciento de la población cuenta con al menos dos dosis de la vacuna anticovid.

Tommy Nyberg, Neil M Ferguson, Joshua Blake, Wes Hinsley, Samir Bhatt, Daniela De Angelis, Simon Thelwall, Anne M Presanis (2022-09-10). [Correspondence] Misclassification bias in estimating clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2 variants — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Christina Yek and colleagues for their Correspondence regarding our Article.1 They note that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 generally have more severe disease than those who are infected but not tested. This finding could lead to the overestimation of absolute risks, but relative risks are not necessarily biased unless the proportion of detected severe cases differs systematically between variants. Citing modelling results that indicated a declining infection detection rate in the USA during the transition period between the dominance of the delta (B.1.617.2) and omicron (B.1.1.529) variants, po…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-09). AFL-CIO President Shuler: Pandemic awakened nation to value of workers. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The ravages of the coronavirus pandemic and the dependence of all of us on "essential" workers such as grocery stockers, nurses, home health care workers and truckers woke the entire nation—including them—to their value, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says. And it accelerated the awareness and activism among those workers, especially younger workers, of their power, …

Lily Meyersohn (2022-09-09). As New Covid Boosters Move Forward, Better Outreach Is Needed to Save Lives. commondreams.org Various studies have shown that increased boosting this round could save many thousands of lives.

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2022-09-10: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-10). China automobile sector maintains rapid growth momentum. ecns.cn China's automobile industry continued to see robust growth in production and sales in August despite COVID-19 outbreaks, industrial data showed Friday.

____ (2022-09-10). China has sent anti-pandemic experts to 34 countries. ecns.cn China has dispatched medical experts to 34 countries to fight the COVID pandemic since it broke out, Chinese authorities said on Friday.

WSWS (2022-09-10). Australia ends daily COVID reporting after deadliest month of the pandemic. wsws.org Governments are denying the population the most basic information about the pandemic, as it claims more lives than ever.

TeleSUR, mcs, JDO (2022-09-10). Panamá flexibilizará protocolos de Covid-19 para viajeros. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con las autoridades sanitarias, más del 80 por ciento de la población cuenta con al menos dos dosis de la vacuna anticovid.

Editor (2022-09-09). An indictment of modern capitalism — a WW editorial. workers.org Just imagine if the Joe Biden administration and Congress had agreed to spend $54 billion to advance health care in the U.S. as COVID-19 variants continued to claim more lives. Instead of life expectancy dropping for the second year in a row, more lives would have been saved. That $54 . . . |

_____ (2022-09-09). Sanctions Are Destructive, Illegitimate, And Totally Bipartisan. popularresistance.org What right does the United States have to starve civilians to achieve political goals? Despite its obvious importance, this question is largely absent from mainstream discourse. Through economic sanctions, or economic warfare, the U.S. can unilaterally collapse economies and generate famine in foreign countries. The civilian death toll from sanctions is often equal to—and sometimes greater than—the toll from conventional warfare. Yet on both sides of the aisle, it is taken for granted that we have the "right" to impose destitution on civilian populations in order to advance our interests. The U.S. adm…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-09). AFL-CIO President Shuler: Pandemic awakened nation to value of workers. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The ravages of the coronavirus pandemic and the dependence of all of us on "essential" workers such as grocery stockers, nurses, home health care workers and truckers woke the entire nation—including them—to their value, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says. And it accelerated the awareness and activism among those workers, especially younger workers, of their power, …

WSWS (2022-09-09). Unite Michigan Medicine nurses with Minnesota and California health care workers! wsws.org Nurses must be warned that the MNA-UMPNC is preparing a sellout of their fight for safe staffing. The Michigan Medicine Rank-and-File Committee is fighting to unite with health care workers and nurses across the US and internationally.

Ryan Cristián (2022-09-09). England Bans COVID Jab For Under 12 & Quebec Admits COVID Severity "Less Than Flu" For Children. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (9/9/22). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Rian Overy (2022-09-09). Researchers find method for improved pancreatic cancer treatment. healtheuropa.com A study from the Systems Oncology Lab at Champalimaud Research, published on September 9, has provided a potential solution to the issues surrounding pancreatic cancer treatment. The study explores the use of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in fighting cancer. Statistics surrounding pancreatic cancer are not positive. The five-year survival rate after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis is …

Monet Bailey (2022-09-09). Monkeypox is causing encephalitis in some patients. healtheuropa.com A new study by University College London (UCL) has found that monkeypox can sometimes cause neurological complications such as encephalitis, confusion or seizures. Monkeypox is a rare infection commonly found in west or central Africa. It is passed on from person to person through close contact with monkeypox blisters or scabs, touching clothing, bedding or …

Editor (2022-09-09). LA Ended a Zero-bail COVID Rule, and Now the Jail Population Is Growing. scheerpost.com

Rachel Militello (2022-09-09). Moderna Clinical Trials Terribly Flawed — and FDA Knew It, Former Pharma Executive Tells RFK, Jr. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-09-09). 10 million children have lost parents or other caregivers to COVID-19, according to latest estimate. wsws.org In the face of this colossal global tragedy, the US and other major powers have abandoned any serious effort to fight the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-09-09). Cost of energy crisis pushes piles more pressure on UK's National Health Service and social care. wsws.org Since the government's energy "cap" only applies to private households, health and care providers are exposed to the full surge in energy prices.

TeleSUR (2022-09-09). Chile: Monkeypox Vaccination to Kick-off. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Chile's Ministry of Health (Minsal) announced that the country would start the vaccination of priority groups amid limitations of monkeypox vaccines in the international context. | RELATED: | Through his official Twitter account, Undersecretary for Public Health Cristóbal Cuadrado said, "We expect to begin the first stage of the inoculation process during October." | The vaccine to be used for the immuni…

Marilyn Bechtel (2022-09-09). Labor Day rally marks Kaiser mental health clinicians' fourth week on strike. peoplesworld.org OAKLAND, Calif.—As over 2,000 Kaiser psychologists, social workers, and therapists entered the fourth week of the longest mental health strike in U.S. history, hundreds of clinicians, elected officials, patients, family members, union leaders, and community supporters rallied outside Kaiser Permanente's flagship Oakland Medical Center on Labor Day to demand the giant HMO staff up to …

WSWS (2022-09-09). Cost of energy crisis piles more pressure on UK's National Health Service and social care. wsws.org Since the government's energy "cap" only applies to private households, health and care providers are exposed to the full surge in energy prices.

WSWS (2022-09-09). "We can't go on like this": Striking Pennsylvania nursing home workers speak out on issues behind their strike. wsws.org Nursing home workers are angry that they risked their lives caring for patients during the pandemic and received nothing in return, despite being patronized as "essential." Most have seen a co-worker or a patient contract COVID-19 and pass away or have been infected themselves.

____ (2022-09-07). Epidemic controllable in Beijing, officials say. ecns.cn The COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing is controllable, thanks to the quick and decisive measures taken by health authorities after infection clusters emerged in local schools this week, a senior official said at a news conference on Wednesday.

Staff (2022-09-08). México compra nueve millones de dosis de Abdala para inmunizar a niños contra la COVID. cubadebate.cu El Gobierno mexicano anunció el martes la compra de 9 millones de dosis de la vacuna cubana Abdala para inmunizar contra la covid-19 a niños de entre 5 y 11 años de edad. "Tenemos ya el contrato con el Gobierno de Cuba y su compañía de biotecnología para la vacuna Abdala, con 9 millones de dosis que, dado que este es un esquema de tres dosis, serán suficientes para 3 millones de niñas y niños", declaró Hugo López-Gatell, subsecretario de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud.

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