Tag: health

Here are eight ways the pandemic threatens veterans.

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.

J&J faces more than 14,000 cases accusing Johnson & Johnson’s talc-containing products of causing ovarian cancer or mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure.

The crises of COVID and economic collapse are triggers for people to demand change as a gateway to a new and better world.

The world, in other words, has turned upside down.

“If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities.”

"Nothing is more fundamental to our recovery than the strengthening of America’s public health safety net.”

"Millions of health workers likely to be exposed to SARS–CoV-2 have medical conditions that increase their risk for poor COVID-19 outcomes."

The other epidemic, meanwhile, is causing what amounts to a massacre of the nation’s institutionalized elderly in nursing homes.

More than 207,000 people have died worldwide from COVID-19, but there are still no drugs proven to help treat the disease.