Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Tag: Covid-19 pandemic

‘The sheer greed is obscene’: Moderna plans 4,000% markup for COVID...

"We need to learn from this pandemic and break big pharma's monopolies."

Two years in, we need to learn the lessons of this...

It’s time we flex the power that comes with being essential and fight for a new economy that favors people, not just corporations.

Judge blocks Biden administration’s order mandating federal employees vaccinate against COVID-19

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown said President Biden didn't have the authority to “mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs.”

Veterans and former industrial workers need to be a priority during...

The people who are in the high-risk groups must protect themselves from getting infected with the new coronavirus as it can be quite dangerous.

Swept into a Covid hell of profits

The great forgetting, Part 2...

A crisis of undiagnosed cancers is emerging in the pandemic’s second...

A factory worker didn’t want to call in sick or catch COVID-19, so she tried to ignore the pain. Now she has stage 4 cancer.

Modi government is drowning India into a COVID- 19 Hell

India is gigantic — it's the world's second-most crowded country with almost 1.4 billion individuals — and its size presents uncommon difficulties to battling COVID-19.

How did the pandemic affect ocean conservation?

Clickbait stories of happy animals returning to suddenly quiet habitats paint an overly rosy picture of COVID-19’s impact on the marine environment.

Sustainability in a post-Covid-19 world: Is your business prepared?

Small businesses have a role to play. They have to make sure that they are sustainable in terms of their existence and environmental impact.

How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending...

For decades, Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system, in part because of the six-decade-old U.S. embargo.

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Sisyphus Trump maniacally replays 2015, with repeated, inflammatory media blitzes. But that gambit...

How many unforced errors—the Arlington cemetery mess, JD Vance, fake Ohio pet-napping and Loomer—confirm Trump as monumental scatterbrain?

Matt Nelson self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston, condemning US support for Gaza genocide

Nelson’s extreme act of protest marks the third self-immolation in the U.S. since Israel’s war on Gaza began, drawing attention to America’s ongoing complicity in the killing of over 41,000 Palestinians.

Can the world save Palestine from US-Israeli genocide?

The UN General Assembly's scheduled meeting is an opportunity for the world community to clearly express its opposition to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine.

Biden-Harris administration preserves 28 million acres of Alaska public lands, prioritizing Tribal rights and...

The Biden-Harris administration’s decision to retain protections for 28 million acres in Alaska marks a significant reversal of the previous administration’s plans to open these lands to extractive industries, preserving vital natural, cultural, and subsistence resources for Alaska Native communities.

New study finds personal care products cause development disruptions in children

The study linked endocrine disruptors, which "mimic, block or interfere with the body’s own hormones," and disruptions in children "during key developmental moments,"