Coronavirus

Biggest Public Threat: Health Care For Profit

March 11, 2020 Staff, Workers.org Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, Profit

The coronavirus COVID-19, first detected in China, has now spread around the world. With hundreds of cases already identified across the U.S., this potential public health emergency has exposed glaring deficiencies in preparedness. Few people were reassured when Vice President Mike Pence said that health insurance will cover the cost of a test for COVID-19.

The Fed’s Baffling Response To The Coronavirus Explained

March 11, 2020 Ellen Brown, Truthdig.com Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Federal Government, Health Care, World Health Organization

When the World Health Organization announced on Feb. 24 that it was time to prepare for a global pandemic, the stock market plummeted. Over the following week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 3,500 points, or 10%. In an attempt to contain the damage, the Federal Reserve on March 3 slashed the fed funds rate from 1.5% to 1.0%, in its first emergency rate move and biggest one-time cut since the 2008 financial crisis. But rather than reassuring investors, the move fueled another panic sell-off.

Coronavirus And Oil War Trigger Economic Collapse

March 9, 2020 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Oil and Gas, Recession

Economist Jack Rasmus reported on Sunday night, 'the economic collapse is underway. ' On top of the impact of the rapidly spreading coronavirus which was already crashing the markets, an oil war began between Russia and Saudi Arabia over the weekend. Crude oil prices plummeted 30 percent with oil prices suffering their biggest plunge since the Gulf War in 1991 over the weekend as the oil war developed. he Dow Jones had its single largest one-day point decline in history, dropping 2,013 points. This is just the beginning -- the oil war has just begun, the coronavirus is still in its early stages

The Virus Of Nuclear Proliferation

March 9, 2020 Alice Slater, Indepthnews.net Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, disarmament, Nuclear Weapons

NEW YORK (IDN) — In an avalanche of reporting we are now assaulted with information about how the world is urgently attempting to batten down the hatches to avoid the possibility of deathly consequences from the broadly publicized outbreak of the coronavirus...

Coronavirus Alarm Blends Yellow Peril And Red Scare

March 9, 2020 Staff, Fair.org Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Racism, Red Scare, U.S.

As an Asian-American, I’m not surprised that there are numerous reports surfacing of racistand xenophobic responses arising in the US (and elsewhere) as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, where “coughing while Asian” is being compared to “driving while black.” In case there are any doubts that media coverage is being racialized, reports about new coronavirus updates in the US...

COVID-19 Is A Classic Example Of The Dangers Of Putting Profits Over Health

March 8, 2020 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Capitalism, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemic, health

It is unusual for Popular Resistance to cover an issue two weeks in a row but the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is developing rapidly, and there is a lot of misinformation about it. In the US, we are being misinformed by false information from the corporate media. K. J. Noh writes that "Instead of voicing support or encouraging solidarity—'We are Wuhan'—and commending the extraordinary efforts and sacrifices the Chinese have taken to fight a disease that, in the words of epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, 'all of mankind is facing,' western corporate media have chosen to go all out to criticize and demonize China, sparing no effort to rekindle ugly, racist, orientalist, and dehumanizing tropes, using any perceived or imagined misstep, pretext, and shortcoming to tar China and the Chinese." We are also getting false information from the Trump administration.

New York Times Spreads The Virus Of Hatred, Again

March 8, 2020 K. J. Noh, MR Online. Educate! China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Media, Racism

The 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Covid 19, first detected late last year in the hub city of Wuhan, China, is a rapidly-spreading viral disease, often characterized by a cluster of acute respiratory symptoms. To date, over 85,000 people have been infected, and nearly 3,000—and counting—have died. The virulence of this outbreak has put most of China under different degrees of lockdown: over 50 million people were quarantined in the immediate region; the majority of neighboring Chinese cities implemented restrictions on travel and movement to stem the tide of infection; and across the country, all of China has been facing restrictions and hardship. As we speak, the disease has spread to every continent except Antarctica, and is recorded over 50 countries across the world, with serious outbreaks in Korea, Japan, Italy, Iran, and possibly undetected clusters across the world.

1,000 Protest Anti-Chinese Racism In San Francisco

March 7, 2020 By Dave Welsh, Workers.org Resist! China, Coronavirus, Protests, Racism

Over a thousand people marched from San Francisco Chinatown to Union Square on Feb. 29 to protest the wave of racism against Chinese people in U.S. media and political circles, since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Organized by a broad coalition of Chinese-American organizations and supported by a local chapter of Veterans for Peace...

Survey Of Nation’s Frontline Registered Nurses Shows Hospitals Unprepared For COVID-19

March 7, 2020 Staff, Nationalnursesunited.org Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hospitals, Nurses

A nationwide survey National Nurses United (NNU) conducted of registered nurses, the country’s frontline health care staff, reveals that the vast majority of United States hospitals and health care facilities are unprepared to handle and contain cases of COVID-19. The results were shared at a press conference held Thursday by NNU, the country’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses.

Fragile Safety Net Leaves U.S. Economy Vulnerable To Coronavirus Hit

March 6, 2020 By Jonnelle Marte and Heather Timmons, Reuters.com Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Finance and the Economy, Health Care

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The spreading coronavirus outbreak poses a double-barreled threat to U.S. workers who face not only the prospect of lost wages if they are forced to stay home during a quarantine but also a fragile safety net to fall back on during such a crisis.

WHO Expert Explains Why China’s Cases Of COVID-19 Are Declining

March 4, 2020 Julia Belluz, Vox.com. Educate! China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care

There’s one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge of and experience with Covid-19: China. China, and specifically Hubei province, is where the Covid-19 disease emerged; it’s where 83 percent of the 89,000 cases known to date have been recorded; and it’s where doctors and health authorities have been battling an epidemic for two months — while other countries braced themselves for outbreaks — using unprecedented public health measures, including a cordon sanitaire and lockdowns that affected millions. In recent weeks, though, the number of new infections and deaths reported in China has been declining, which suggests spread of the virus may have peaked there and that transmission is slowing down. At the same time, cases are rapidly increasing in several other countries, with major outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran — and a growing case count in the United States.

Globalization And Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains

March 2, 2020 F. William Engdahl, Journal-neo.org Educate! China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Globalization, Medicines, Profits

The grave risks and dangers in the process of worldwide out-sourcing and so-called globalization of the past 30 years or so are becoming starkly clear as the ongoing health emergency across China threatens vital world supply chains from China to the rest of the world. While much attention is focused on the risks to smartphone components or auto manufacture via supplies of key parts from China or to the breakdown of oil deliveries in the last weeks...

The US Is Not Prepared For Coronavirus; We Need To Take Action

March 1, 2020 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthcare, Medicare for all, Single payer health care

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is in its very early stages in the United States so it is too early to predict its full impacts. The World Health Organization reports that COVID-19 has stricken more than 86,000 people around the world, killing nearly 3,000 and has spread to at least 60 countries. The global march of COVID-19 looks unstoppable. Universal access to healthcare through National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) would make a tremendous difference in both controlling the spread of the virus as well as making sure people receive the treatment they need.

Groups Demand Whitmer Enact Water Shutoff Moratorium To Fight Coronavirus

March 1, 2020 The Peoples Water Board. Resist! Coronavirus, Detroit, Detroit water shut off, health

Hundreds of thousands of people in low-income families across the state have borne the brunt of the record rise in the cost of water services and the unaffordable water bills that have resulted from that rise. The unconscionable act of depriving anyone of water because the cost is more than they can afford has resulted in a health crisis, that, with the advent of coronavirus, has the serious potential to be magnified and spread due to thousands not having access to water. The ultimate solution is to implement income based water bills based on the Water Affordability Plan. The immediate, short term solution must be a moratorium on water shutoffs and the immediate restoration of service where it’s been disconnected.

China’s Virus Containment Wins Praise

February 25, 2020 Lia Zhu, China Daily. Educate! China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemic, Health Care

Confronted with an "unprecedented" outbreak of the novel coronavirus, China has done a "remarkable" job in limiting the spread of the disease, said leading experts in the US. "China has done extraordinary things to mostly contain the virus within Hubei and central China," said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, to China Daily. "They recognize their responsibility to the world as well as to the people of China and have worked hard to contain this virus." Hotez said that it's "almost impossible" to contain a highly contagious virus, like the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), without a vaccine, but China has made progress.

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