Tag: health

With prices rising, supplies lacking, and healthcare officials working endlessly, the importance of vital medical equipment should not be negotiable.

"It just goes to the history of Cuba’s deep and long-lasting commitment to humanitarian solidarity with other countries.”

“First we’re going to run out of masks, and then we’re going to run out of doctors and nurses, because they’ll become sick.”

Epidemic Epistle: A COVID-19 crisis diary by Dave & Gary Lindorff...

As we respond to the coronavirus emergency and the immediate needs of the people and communities impacted by it, let us also keep in view the systemic needs and possibilities that crisis exposes.

There is no public health system in the U.S., in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.

The cost of healthcare doesn’t just protect the patient, but potentially it protects all of us from the spread of disease. Paying that cost should be a matter of social importance.

We’re in chaos now and this thing’s just beginning!

"Citizens, media and decision-makers should know who pays for studies on subjects of public interest."

It is fair to question whether the media has done, or is doing, a proper job of providing accurate information while avoiding the ratings- and revenue-driven temptation to blow the problem out of proportion.