Tag: COVID-19
Senate Democrats investigate RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine purge at CDC
Bernie Sanders and top Senate Democrats demand answers after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousts all 17 CDC vaccine experts and installs anti-vaccine activists in their place.
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels...
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
Pharma ‘myth’ debunked as study shows US public poured $32 billion...
"Without public investment, there would be no mRNA vaccines."
New bill terminates vaccine requirement for air travelers to US
The argument against the bill states that this could put "American health care at risk."
Pfizer’s record-shattering $100 billion in revenue denounced as ‘sickening’
"A people-funded vaccine should be cheap and freely available."
A pandemic of the poor
As we approach 1 million COVID-19 deaths, Americans in poorer counties have died at double the rate of wealthier counties.
Climate change increasing pandemics
Now is the time to address climate change for the health of society.
How young workers are being exploited in the COVID-19 economy
As employers increasingly look to prey on adolescents, the teens will need more protection rather than less.
Johnson does Downing Street: Booze, lies and playacting
Johnson is part of a privileged cozy class (Eton to Oxbridge to Whitehall) that feels themselves exempt from moral duties, social obligations and legal restrictions.
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.