Public health vs. politics: White House scrapped nationwide Covid-19 testing plan to hurt blue...
More than five months into the crisis, there continue to be critical testing shortages and delays. How did we get here?
Covid-19 crisis failure, people must save themselves and the economy
Our actions need to be about building a people’s movement that grows in power before and after the November elections.
Coronavirus shines light on zoos as danger zones for deadly disease transmission between humans...
The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences.
How many people in the US are hospitalized with COVID-19? Who knows?
“The most pernicious portion of it is that at the state level and at the regional level we lost our situational awareness.”
New study confirms lead poisoning is a global problem among children
"The unequivocal conclusion of this research is that children around the world are being poisoned by lead on a massive and previously unrecognized scale."
FAQs for anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers
The following is satire that is, however, based on actual anti-masker and anti-vaxxer arguments and memes.
Noam Chomsky: Decades of “the neoliberal plague” left U.S. Unprepared for Covid-19 outbreak
“We should understand the roots of this pandemic.”
Worries about foreign ‘hacking’ of vaccine research place corporate profits ahead of public health
The Times fully admits that this alleged hacking would not harm U.S. public health, but only the profits of U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
Kids need to wear masks when they go to school in person, and parents...
I know this is easier said than done but, in my view, this struggle is worth the effort.
The food industry puts profits over public health using big tobacco’s playbook
In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health.