Thursday, April 18, 2024

Medicare for All could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid deaths: Study

"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."

The Referendum That Might Have Headed Off Flint’s Water Crisis

Michigan’s voters decided to scrap the kind of super-empowered emergency managers who made questionable decisions in Flint – but state lawmakers found a way to revive the program.

The next Flint? Two-thirds of residents in Corpus Christi, TX still without safe drinking...

Though some of the water use restriction have been lifted for some residents, two-thirds of those living in the Texas city are still forced to rely on bottled water for drinking and cooking.

The Big Pharma family that brought us the opioid crisis

Purdue Pharma, the drug pushers, have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to decrease overall U.S. life expectancy at birth for the last two years running.
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A tale of two pandemics

In one, billionaires are sheltering in place on their yachts in the Caribbean, and wealthy families are safely quarantining in multimillion-dollar mansions. In the other boats sit people risking their lives for their jobs and people without incomes going hungry.

Tax the rich and divert billions from NYPD budget to fund public hospitals, says...

“The working class and the middle class and the poor are getting shafted.”

The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’

As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.

Phthalates in food packaging lead to 100,000 deaths in U.S. each year, study finds

“While further studies are needed to corroborate observations and identify mechanisms, regulatory action is urgently needed.”
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‘A vaccine for the world’: U.S. scientists develop low-cost shot to inoculate global south

"We make vaccines for diseases that the pharma companies won’t make."