Health Care

Federal Health Agencies Block Journalists’ Access To COVID-19 Experts And Information

April 2, 2020 Gary Schwitzer, HealthReviewNews.org. Educate! Censorship, COVID-19, Health Care, Media

It is a form of censorship. Journalists trying to cover COVID-19 are not allowed to talk with many federal health researchers or administrators without checking in first with government “public information officers” or PIOs. Sometimes the request is denied outright. Oftentimes, if a reporter is granted an interview, a PIO insists on sitting in on the interview. It’s not a new issue with COVID-19 information. The Trump Administration is not the first to put up a wall blocking journalists. Many journalists were increasingly vocal about restrictions placed on them by the Obama administration. The history of restrictions on reporters trying to cover the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the CDC, the EPA and other federal health agencies has not been researched thoroughly enough, and thus, it’s a story not told often enough or well enough.

New York Nurses Are Living A Heartbreaking Nightmare

March 29, 2020 By Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, Labor Notes. Create! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, New York City (NYC)

Last Sunday I worked in the Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division Emergency Department and I want to share with you the real-life story—and most certainly not the worst story. To back up... I had some concerning symptoms that started the previous Sunday at about 10 a.m. but escalated severely by Tuesday night. I was “approved” for COVID testing only because I had these symptoms and, perhaps, due to my age. I had the test on Thursday. I was told to call when I arrived, and then wait in my car for someone to call me in. The test was only supposed to take a few minutes. But when I arrived and called, I got a recording that said the office had moved. I made more calls, waited, called again. Almost two hours passed before someone finally tested me.

Vets Say We Need A Strong VA To Combat Coronavirus And Win Medicare For All

March 28, 2020 By Candice Bernd, Truthout.org Educate! COVID-19, Health Care, Medicare for all, Veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs serves as a backup health care system in a national health emergency. Not many know about the Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA) so-called “fourth mission.” In 1982, Congress expanded the VA’s role beyond providing care, benefits and burial services to the nearly 9 million veterans it currently serves. Its additional role is to provide a backup health care system in a national emergency — for example, taking on non-veteran patients in the event of a global pandemic. The agency’s Veterans Health Administration is the country’s largest government-run, integrated health system, with more than 300,000 staffers and 1,200 medical facilities across its sprawling administration. The agency stands ready to deploy 16,500 acute-care beds, including 1,000 isolation units and at least 3,000 ventilators.

Healthcare Workers Are At War With The Pandemic And The Economic System

March 28, 2020 Mike Pappas, Leftvoice.org Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, Pandemic, Workers

A NYC physician gave this speech about the war against the coronavirus and the ongoing war against for-profit health care, Trump and capitalism itself. The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying capitalism’s complete inability to foster overall health and well being. We don’t just need a new healthcare system, but a new economic system altogether. With over 390K confirmed cases and more than 17K deaths at the time of this writing, the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc across the globe, with Italy surpassing China in deaths and Iran in shambles, a situation made worse by the U.S. government’s absolutely genocidal sanctions. In the U.S., there have been over 46K confirmed cases and 583 deaths. This number of confirmed cases is clearly a gross underestimate as the U.S. was delayed in testing and has only tested a small proportion of the population.

Promising Coronavirus Treatment Granted Exclusive Status To Gilead Sciences By FDA

March 28, 2020 By Ashley Curtin, Nationofchange.org Educate! Big Pharma, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care

A potential treatment for the coronavirus was granted exclusive status to Gilead Sciences by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday. Remdesivir, a drug it is developing to treat the illness, is now “orphan” status, which allows the pharmaceutical company to profit exclusively off the drug. The designation of this drug, which is “generally reserved for drugs that treat rare illnesses affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans,” was eligible for “orphan” status in this case since the rapidly spreading virus had yet to “spread beyond that limit,” Common Dreams reported. On Monday, 40,000 Americans were stricken with the coronavirus when the FDA granted Gilead Sciences exclusive claim. By Tuesday afternoon, confirmed cases in the United States jumped to 51,000.

Building Universal Healthcare In South Africa

March 26, 2020 Salimah Valiani, Socialistproject.ca Create! Health Care, South Africa

Wittingly or unwittingly, the proposal for National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa has created two camps: pro-NHI and anti-NHI. But as I argue in a recent article in the International Journal of Health Services, there is much more to improving health and healthcare in South Africa than the NHI.

When Stereotyping Is A Screen For Genocide

March 25, 2020 By Charmaine White Face, Popular Resistance. Resist! Health Care, Indian Health Service, Privatization

If you take out the words “tribal” and “Indian” all you have left are a group of patients fighting a federal government agency for the right to health care. That’s what stereotyping does. It blinds people to getting to the heart of the matter. It puts an extra burden on the people and lets a government agency get away with violations of federal laws. This is exactly what is happening to Donna Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and the author as we happen to be Native American Indians fighting the United States Indian Health Service and their illegal contract with an information agency that carries the lofty name “Great Plains Tribal Chairmens’ Health Board.” No one seems to remember that tribal chairmen have no authority, jurisdiction, or sovereign immunity off of the reservations.

Why Nigeria Knows Better How To Fight Corona Than The US

March 23, 2020 By Crystal Simeoni, Ips-journal.eu Create! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, Nigeria

The coronavirus disease, otherwise known as COVID-19, was first reported in Wuhan, China on the last day of December 2019. When it began to spread rapidly , the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020. As such, the coronavirus puts and continues to put a spotlight on the need for meaningful investment in health care...

The Best Health System To React To COVID-19

March 22, 2020 Suzanne Gordon and Jasper Craven, The American Prospect. Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, VA Hospital

As the coronavirus surges through America, the country’s only national health care system—the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)—is facing a massive test. The agency must simultaneously treat its vulnerable population of nine million patients, while preparing to fulfill its so-called “fourth mission,” which is to help respond to national emergencies and pandemics. For years, the VHA has been unfairly cast in the press and in Congress as a failing institution, even as its care has consistently outperformed the private sector on key metrics. In recent years, the VHA has developed unique and necessary tools that could play a critically helpful role in containing this public health crisis. Yet this work could be greatly complicated by the outright neglect and hostility from the Trump administration and Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Cuba’s Contribution To Combating COVID-19

March 18, 2020 Helen Yaffe, Blog.yalebooks.com Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Cuba, Health Care

COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat the spread and to care for those infected. Among the thirty medicines the Chinese National Health Commission...

On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View

March 18, 2020 By Mike Pappas, Leftvoice.org Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Doctors, Health Care

The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe. There seems to be no way of containing it at this point, and health systems are struggling to keep up. The virus is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health.

Were The Kushner’s Behind Blocking Coronavirus Testing In Order To Personally Profit?

March 18, 2020 Staff, Prnewswire.com Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Health Care, Pandemic

NEW YORK, March 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Oscar, a tech-driven health insurance company, launched the first testing center locator for COVID-19 in the U.S., featuring more than 100 centers today. It is accessible to the general public and more testing centers are being added every day.

Guess Who’s Rallying For Medicare For All? Senior Citizens

March 16, 2020 By Taylor Moore, Inthesetimes.com Create! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

Because seniors already have Medicare and may be retired, changing the healthcare system is not typically considered a key issue for their voting demographic. The problem? “No one’s asked us." CHICAGO—What began as back pain ended in a five-month stay at the hospital for an excruciating spinal infection that almost paralyzed Catherine (name changed for privacy).

We Need Strong Public Health Care To Contain The Global Corona Pandemic

March 14, 2020 Staff, Vivasalud.be Create! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, Public Health

The corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak has spread from China to over a hundred countries in less than two months. As of March 10th, confirmed cases were above 100.000 and deaths over 4.000. Now is the time to take stock and to assess the responses of different countries to the outbreak so far.

20 Top Economists Endorse Medicare For All As Best Plan To Cut Costs, Save Tens Of Thousands Of Lives Each Year

March 13, 2020 Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Create! Health Care, Medicare

Rejecting "loose talk" from corporate Democrats, the media, and insurance industry that a single-payer system would be unaffordable, twenty leading U.S. economists on Tuesday released an open letter endorsing Medicare for All as the best way to reduce soaring national healthcare costs, significantly cut expenses for most U.S. households, and save countless lives.

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