Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Tag: health

Travesty averted: An uplifting poem for the pandemic

There are times when well-meaning "message poetry" captures the moment and touches heart strings.

‘Drop the Medicare eligibility age to 0 right now’: Study warns...

"For all the abstracted talk over the last year about health insurance churn, we are likely about to see it on an unprecedented scale in terms of velocity and devastation."

Early data shows African Americans have contracted and died of coronavirus...

“When COVID-19 passes and we see the losses … it will be deeply tied to the story of post-World War II policies that left communities marginalized.”

Corporate media ignore international cooperation as shortcut to coronavirus vaccine

"Imagine how much faster the research would advance if these researchers were working in collaboration, sharing their results with each other..."

What we need to understand about asymptomatic carriers if we’re going...

ProPublica’s health reporter Caroline Chen explains what the conversation around asymptomatic coronavirus carriers is missing, and what we need to understand if we’re going to beat this nefarious virus together.

Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic....

As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.

Public health first

The richest nation in the world surely has enough resources to keep its people safe at home for as long as it takes.

Having it easy in the beginning, tough in the end

How my dad predicted the decline of America...

Set to approve $4.5 trillion to bail out corporations, Trump White...

"As governors and local leaders around the country are making clear, private efforts without more extensive government support are proving far from sufficient to meet the current and anticipated needs."

Why is the US so exceptionally vulnerable to COVID-19?

This is why the U.S. has so quickly become the center of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...

On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.

Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump  

Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?

Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...

Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.

CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10 million off health...

Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.

Sanders pushes ‘Pensions for All’ to confront corporate greed and America’s retirement crisis

With nearly half of older workers having no retirement savings, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces sweeping legislation to guarantee all Americans the same pension security enjoyed by members of Congress.