Public Health

Coronavirus Shakes The Conceit Of ‘American Exceptionalism’

April 25, 2020 Calvin Woodward, AP News. Educate! American Exceptionalism, Hospitals, Pandemic, Public Health

Washington, DC - What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within — America’s very institutions? When the coronavirus pandemic came from distant lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures and incompetencies by a system that exists to prepare, protect, prevent and cut citizens a check in a national crisis. The molecular menace posed by the new coronavirus has shaken the conceit of “American exceptionalism” like nothing big enough to see with your own eyes. A nation with unmatched power, brazen ambition and aspirations through the arc of history to be humanity’s “shining city upon a hill” cannot come up with enough simple cotton swabs despite the wartime manufacturing and supply powers assumed by President Donald Trump.

How China Broke The Chain Of Infection

April 18, 2020 By Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu and Du Xiaojun, Independent Media Institute. Create! China, COVID-19, Pandemic, Public Health

On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to Beijing Normal University—published an important paper in Science. This paper—“An Investigation of Transmission Control Measures During the First 50 Days of the COVID-19 Epidemic in China”—proposes that if the Chinese government had not initiated the lockdown of Wuhan and the national emergency response, then there would have been 744,000 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases outside Wuhan. “Control measures taken in China,” the authors argue, “potentially hold lesso[n]s for other countries around the world.” In the World Health Organization’s February report after a visit to China, the team members wrote, “In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history.”

The United States Is Where COVID-19 Deaths Are Being Under-reported

April 7, 2020 Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. Educate! China, COVID-19, Deaths, Pandemic, Public Health

When the COVID-19 pandemic started, China responded quickly by reporting the novel disease to the World Health Organization and taking steps to identify and study the virus. Within a matter of weeks, it was clear that the virus was a serious public health matter. China then mobilized its resources and took an aggressive public health approach to contain the spread and care for those who became ill. For this, the US chastised China, calling it "authoritarian" and "draconian," instead of learning from the success of China. So far, China has controlled the virus, keeping the total number of cases below 82,000 and the number of deaths in the low 3,000's. Today, they are easing the quarantine, opening businesses back up and slowly returning to normal activity. The World Health Organization sent a mission to China that commended the government for its actions.

Public Health Experts: Single-Payer Systems Coping With Coronavirus More Effectively Than For-Profit Model

March 20, 2020 By Jake Johnson, Nationofchange.org Educate! Coronavirus COVID-19, Public Health, Single-Payer

As the coronavirus pandemic places extraordinary strain on national healthcare systems around the world, public health experts are making the case that countries with universal single-payer systems have thus far responded more efficiently and effectively to the outbreak than nations like the United States...

No Need To Wait For Pandemics: The Public Health Case For Criminal Justice Reform

March 18, 2020 By Peter Wagner and Emily Widra, Prisonpolicy.org Create! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Criminal Justice, Pandemic, Public Health, Reform

The United States incarcerates a greater share of its population than any other nation in the world, so it is urgent that policymakers think about how a viral pandemic would impact people in prisons, in jails, on probation, and on parole, and to take seriously the public health case for criminal justice reform.

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.

City Council Approves $500,000 For Cure Violence Program

October 20, 2019 Taheshah Moise, WFMY News 2. Create! Public Health, Violence

Greensboro, N.C. — City Council approved $500,000 Tuesday to help reduce violence in certain parts of Greensboro. The money will fund the program called "Cure Violence" that treats violent crime like a health issue. Ingram Bell will be a part of the 6 person team. For her, curbing gun violence is personal. "I am involved because in 2011 I was actually shot in my head so I'm not a victim I'm a survivor," she said. She's also lost family members, most recently her cousin Furmann Bailey who was shot and killed at a Greensboro gas station five months ago. "He didn't get to live his life out," Bell said. The Cure Violence program approaches violence like a health problem and even uses tactics that health experts use to find causes of diseases to stop their spread. "Sometimes we just see violence is something happening, but there's reasons behind it," Councilmember Sharon Hightower said.

Racism As A Public Health Crisis

June 7, 2019 By Jessicah Pierre, Otherwords.org Strategize! Public Health, Racism

Racism is often viewed as an action performed by individuals. But even if we got rid of all America’s prejudiced individuals, racism would still exist in the systems they built. Systemic racism, writer Jenee Desmond-Harris explains, refers to how racial disparities operate “in major parts of U.S. society: the economy, politics, education, and more.” Racism, in other words, isn’t just someone using a racial slur. It’s also the poor schooling in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods, the racial wealth gap, housing discrimination, mass incarceration, police killings of unarmed black and brown people...

Kids Face Rising Health Risks From Climate Change, Doctors Warn As Juliana Case Returns To Court

June 6, 2019 By Nina Pullano, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Public Health

The 21 children and young adults suing the federal government over climate change argue that they and their generation are already suffering the consequences of climate change, from worsening allergies and asthma to the health risks and stress that come with hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise threatening their homes. With the case back in court on Tuesday, some of the heaviest hitters in the public health arena—including 15 major health organization and two former U.S. surgeons general—have been publicly backing them up.

How Police Are A Public Health Issue + Extinction Rebellion’s Move To Save Humanity

December 6, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Police, Public Health

Policing is a public health issue. Some recent victories combined with ongoing grassroots organizing outline the importance of addressing state-sponsored violence as a health hazard that has distinct causes and therefore, distinct solutions. Next, Extinction Rebellion wants to save humanity. Here's how they're going about it. You in?

Why Hurricane Florence Could Become A Public Health Crisis

September 18, 2018 By Jessica A. Knoblauch, Earthjustice.org Educate! Crisis, Hurricane Florence, Hurricanes, Public Health

In the path of the storm are giant pits filled with coal ash, lagoons swirling with hog manure, Superfund sites and industrial facilities stocked with toxic chemicals. People in the southeastern U.S. are facing life threatening winds and rains from Hurricane Florence. Less obvious, but also of great concern, is the public health threat posed by a variety of contaminated sites located around the region. These include giant pits filled with coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal that contains toxic chemicals like arsenic and lead; lagoons swirling with hog manure from factory farms; hazardous waste dumps known as Superfund sites; and industrial facilities stocked with thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals. Many pollution-filled pits in the region are not as hardened against the potential for storms and other emergencies as the public would expect. Coal ash is a case in point.

Boycott Factory Farm Foods: But Don’t Forget The Fish

April 9, 2018 Ronnie Cummins, Organicconsumers.org Resist! Animals, boycott, Factory Farming, Fishing, Public Health

Factory farming and fish production are now a multi-trillion-dollar monster with a growing and devastating impact on public health, animal welfare, small farmers and farmworkers, rural and fishing communities, ocean marine life, water quality, air pollution, soil health, biodiversity and last but not least, global warming. Worldwide, two-thirds of all farm animals are now inhumanely imprisoned on highly-polluting factory farms, fed pesticide- and chemical-contaminated grains and GMOs, often supplemented with contaminated fish meal and oils, and routinely dosed with antibiotics and hormones. In the U.S., 90-95 percent of all dairy, meat and poultry come from industrial-scale factory farms, while more than half of all fish consumed comes from factory-scale fish farms.

Beyond GMOs And Fast Food Nation: Regenerating Public Health

April 2, 2018 Ronnie Cummins, Organicconsumers.org Create! Fast Food, GMOs, Public Health

After decades of chemical-intensive agriculture, factory farms and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food, and an ongoing war against natural systems and traditional knowledge, America's rural communities, environment and public health are rapidly deteriorating. The fatal harvest of Big Food Inc. includes rural economic decline and depopulation throughout the Americas, forced migration from Mexico and Central America, water and air pollution, aquifer depletion, pollinator and biodiversity destruction, soil erosion and fertility loss, climate destabilization, food contamination and nutrient degradation, and deteriorating public health. Unfortunately, the U.S. Congress and the White House, aided and abetted by collaborators north and south of the border, are still dishing out their standard culinary message: Shut up and eat your GMOs.

Standing Rock Sioux People Sue Opioid Industry

February 18, 2018 Staff, TelesurTV Resist! Big Pharma, Opioids, Public Health, Standing Rock

The Standing Rock Sioux people of the United States have filed a federal lawsuit against the opioid industry, alleging they created a public health crisis in their reservation by concealing the addiction risks of drugs through misleading advertising and deceptive trade practices. The Indigenous nation, located in North and South Dakota, joins other Indigenous peoples of Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas that have filed similar lawsuits accusing the opioid industry of violating federal racketeering laws, deceptive trade practices and fraudulent and negligent conduct.

Toxic Firefighting Chemicals ‘Most Seminal Public Health Challenge’

October 19, 2017 Christopher Knaus, www.theguardian.com Educate! Contamination, Public Health, Toxic Chemicals

By Christopher Knaus for The Guardian - A top United States environmental official has described the contamination of drinking water by toxic firefighting chemicals as the most seminal public health challenge of coming decades. The US, like Australia, is still grappling with how to respond to widespread contamination caused by past use of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) in firefighting foam. The manmade chemicals share a probable link with cancer, do not break down in the environment and have contaminated groundwater, drinking water, soil and waterways. The Australian government has continued to maintain there is no concrete evidence of a link between the chemicals and adverse health impacts, but has been criticised for the inadequacy of its response. The government’s stated position sits in stark contrast with a view expressed this week by a senior official in the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a government agency and the country’s leading public health institution. Patrick Breysse, director of the CDC’s National Centre for Environmental Health, described the chemicals as “one of the most seminal public health challenge for the next decades”, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

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