Public Health

The AMA Officially Recognized Racism As A Public-Health Threat

November 20, 2020 Bill Bostock and Anna Medaris Miller, Business Insider. Educate! COVID-19, health disparities, Public Health, Systemic Racism

The American Medical Association has officially defined racism as a public health threat that has created substantial health inequality. Racism, both systemic and structural, has historically perpetuated health inequality and cut short the lives of many Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the US and around the world. Over the last year, a number of county and state authorities have also labelled racism a public health threat. Among them are county councils in San Bernardino, California, and Montgomery, Maryland, as well as authorities in Michigan, Nevada, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis.

The Enraging Deja Vu Of A Third Coronavirus Wave

November 14, 2020 Caroline Chen, ProPublica. Educate! COVID-19, Healthcare workers, Pandemic, Public Health

As a health reporter covering the pandemic, I’ve experienced too many moments of deja vu. This summer, as the virus swept through the South, news footage of overwhelmed hospitals in Houston turning away ambulances recalled similar scenes from March and April in New York City. Now, we’re in the so-called third wave of the pandemic, with the virus slamming into Midwestern states, and this week, Dr. Gregory Schmidt, associate chief medical officer at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, said his colleagues are converting 16 hospital beds into new ICU beds in anticipation of an influx of COVID-19 patients.

Hurricane Eta: Nicaragua Prioritizes Saving And Improving Lives

November 5, 2020 Nan McCurdy, The Alliance for Global Justice. Create! Government aid, Hurricane, Nicaragua, Public Health

How is it that there were only two lives lost during a level 4 Hurricane that affected Nicaragua beginning Nov. 2 on the Caribbean Coast? Nicaragua is constantly preparing and training people to save lives in disasters: thousands of people have participated in simulations for hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and more, and this happens a number of times during the year in every municipality. Nicaragua is among the first countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the best disaster risk management, according to a study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in August 2020.

Tribes Defend Themselves Against A Pandemic

October 4, 2020 Kalen Goodluck, High Country News. Resist! COVID-19, Indigenous Sovereignty, Public Health, State Government

As COVID-19 numbers soared across the country this spring, tribal nations began closing their reservation boundaries to non-residents. The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux erected checkpoints on roads entering their reservations in order to protect their citizens, even as the state of South Dakota refused to require masks or mandate social distance. By early May, South Dakota Gov. Kirsti Noem, R, explicitly told the tribes to remove their checkpoints or face the consequences. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier declined, saying that doing so would “seriously undermine our ability to protect everyone on the reservation.”

Navajo Nation And White Mountain Apache Tribe Chase Down A Virus

August 30, 2020 Kalen Goodluck, High Country News. Create! COVID-19, Indigenous Peoples, Navajo nation, Public Health

On a mild morning in April at Arizona’s Whiteriver Indian Hospital, Dr. Ryan Close tested nasal swabs from two members of an eight-person household on the Fort Apache Reservation northwest of Phoenix. About half of the family had a runny nose and cough and had lost their sense of taste and smell — all symptoms of COVID-19 — and, by late morning, the two tests had come back positive. Close’s contact-tracing work began. For Close and his team, each day begins like this: with a list of new COVID-19 cases — new sources that may have spread the virus.

Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell

August 16, 2020 Steve Miller, Rosemary Lee and E.B. Shaw, HamptonThink.org. Create! COVID-19, Education, Public Health, School reopening

With Corona virus cases spiking across the country, America is on the verge of forcing millions of people into extreme danger. Suddenly, everyone from CEOs, the President, state governors, and the corporate media are calling for schools to open “to save the economy”. No country has tried to open schools with the virus spreading like here in the US. We are currently in a massive wave of surging cases in 40 states. There are not enough tests or testing. How do you open schools if you can’t test and trace? There’s no way that you can keep a school safe from coronavirus if the virus is raging out of control in the community where the school is located.

Testing And Medical Insurance: A Profitable Disaster

August 15, 2020 Sara Founders, Workers.org. Educate! COVID-19, Health Insurance, Profiteers, Public Health

In the midst of a capitalist crash and an out-of-control health crisis, two mega-industries that bear a heavy burden of responsibility for the health disaster are reporting soaring profits. “The nation’s leading health insurers are experiencing an embarrassment of profits,” reported the New York Times Aug. 6. “Anthem, Humana and United Health Group second quarter earnings are double what they were a year ago.” The U.S. has the world’s highest number of COVID-19 cases, over 5 million, and the highest number of deaths. In addition, millions of laid-off workers are losing health insurance.

Racism Is A Public Health Crisis

August 2, 2020 Christine Vestal, Pew Trusts. Educate! Healthcare crisis, Local Government, Public Health, Racism

Being black is bad for your health. And pervasive racism is the cause. That’s the conclusion of multiple public health studies over more than three decades. “We do know that health inequities at their very core are due to racism,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “There’s no doubt about that.” More recently, research has shown that racial health disparities don’t just affect poor African Americans, but they also cross class lines, Benjamin said. “As a black man, my status, my suit and tie don’t protect me.”

Humanity Protests Against The Crimes Of Death

August 1, 2020 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! COVID-19, Healthcare workers, Pandemic, Public Health

On 23 July, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the world now has 15 million people infected by COVID-19. ‘The pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people. Many have been at home for months’, he said. The trauma of the Great Lockdown is taking a serious psycho-social toll. ‘It’s completely understandable that people want to get on with their lives’, Dr. Ghebreyesus said. ‘But we will not go back to the “old normal”. The pandemic has already changed the way we live our lives.

Pandemic Worsens, Resistance Will Follow

July 28, 2020 John Clarke, Counterfire. Strategize! Capitalism, COVID-19, Pandemic, Public Health

Two recent developments in the US seem to capture just how the destructive, profit-driven irrationality of capitalism renders it incapable of effectively containing the present global pandemic. On July 10, the US recorded a staggering 70,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day and Florida saw 11,433 cases, with 435 more people hospitalised. The next day, the reopening of “The Most Magical Place on Earth,” Disney World, began in that state. Admission tickets for the four theme parks are already sold out for the month of July.

Homelessness In The COVID-19 Era

July 27, 2020 Rajan Menon, Tom Dispatch. Educate! COVID-19, Homelessness, Pandemic, Public Health

The novel SARS-CoV-2 has roared through the American landscape leaving physical, emotional, and economic devastation in its wake. By early July, known infections in this country exceeded three million, while deaths topped 135,000. Home to just over 4% of the global population, the United States accounts for more than a quarter of all fatalities from Covid-19, the disease produced by the coronavirus. Amid a recent surge of infections, especially across the Sun Belt, which Vice President Mike Pence typically denied was even occurring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the daily total of infections had reached a record 60,000.

LA County OKs Coronavirus ‘Health Councils’ To Watch Worker Safety

July 23, 2020 Daily News. Create! COVID-19, Los Angeles, Public Health, Worker Rights

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 21, approved a proposal to facilitate worker-led “health councils” to monitor business compliance with public health orders. Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas co-authored the motion recommending that the county reach out to labor leaders and business representatives and quickly come up with effective ways to monitor compliance with mandates to wear facial coverings, install protective shields and disinfect workplaces. Essentially, the workers themselves would monitor conditions within their workplace, Kuehl said, noting recent reports of “devastating” coronavirus outbreaks.

Investigation Into The Erosion Of Public Health

July 4, 2020 The Associated Press and Kaiser Health News. Educate! COVID-19, Infrastructure, Public Health, United States

Local and state public health departments in the United States work to ensure that people have healthy water to drink, their restaurants don’t serve contaminated food and outbreaks of infectious diseases don’t spread. Those departments now find themselves at the forefront of fighting the coronavirus pandemic. But years of budget and staffing cuts have left them unprepared to face the worst health crisis in a century. KHN, also known as Kaiser Health News, and The Associated Press sought to understand the scale of the cuts and how the decades-long starvation of public health departments by federal, state and local governments has affected the system meant to protect the nation’s health. Six takeaways from the KHN-AP investigation.

Global Experts Alarmed At Signs US Has ‘Given Up’ Fight To Stop COVID-19

June 20, 2020 Julia Conley, Commondreams. Educate! COVID-19, Pandemic, Public Health, United States

Global public health experts are looking on in "alarm and disbelief" as the U.S. economy reopens even as Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise in a number of states, with President Donald Trump signaling he has no intention of calling for more economic shutdowns regardless of the outcome. As The Washington Post reported Friday, newspapers across Europe have recently published articles and editorials expressing shock at the Trump administration's approach to the pandemic. "U.S. Increasingly Accepts Rising Covid-19 Numbers," read a headline this week in the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. While images of Americans crowding onto beaches and other public places may have given the international community the impression that the public have grown impatient with social distancing, a survey by the Associated Press last month showed 83% of Americans were concerned lifting lockdown orders too quickly would lead to more coronavirus infections.

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources