Latest Health

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  Cook: Immunity passports: Does social solidarity only count when it gets us back to the pub?

  The ethics of immunity passports, or vaccine apartheid, depends on a wider debate about what our societies mean – and what they obscure – when they discuss issues of trust, the public good and social solidarity
• Geyman: The Private Health Insurance Industry: Should It Be Eliminated?

  Over recent decades, its performance has been increasingly profit-driven to the point of now becoming unaffordable for patients, their families, employers and taxpayers
• Brown: Addressing Black maternal mortality in the South

  In 2018, the maternal mortality rate for Black mothers in the United States was 37.3 per 100,000 live births, compared to 14.9 per 100,000 live births for white mothers
• Ramirez: Tyson Poultry Workers Say Their Bosses Have No Regard for Their Lives

  Interview with a worker at a Tyson poultry plant in Arkansas about his fear of getting sick, what Tyson thinks of its workers, and how long it's been since he received any hazard pay.
• Gardner: The Villain Leshner

  A look at addiction
• Lindorff: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now in His 40th Year as an Incarcerated Prisoner, Has Covid-19

  Given the current pandemic medical crisis facing the US and the world, the US and all 50 states should immediately order the release of all older prisoners over the age of 50
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  Baker: Can We Talk About Open-Source Research?

  If knowledge of Pfizer’s production process was freely shared with engineers throughout the world, do we really believe that no one else could come up with further improvements?
• Thier: The Global South Faces a ‘Vaccine Apartheid’

  Just 10 nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind
• Scher: Pandemic May Have Left Over 250 Million People With Acute Food Shortages in 2020

  As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries
• Entralgo: Covid-19 Caregivers Need Care Too

  A new documentary exposes the need for a federal lifeline for child care providers and working mothers
• Fassler: 10 Largest US Cities Will Spend More on Police Than Public Health This Year

  Combined, these 10 cities’ policing budgets are 3.6 times greater than public health department budgets
• Collins: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers

  Another update on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency
• De Gama: 100+ Countries Push to Loosen WTO Rules on Vaccine Patents

  Why Is the U.S. Still Blocking the Way?
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  Lerner: Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence of Cancer

  The EPA downplayed the risks of the pesticide Telone, according to a complaint filed with the agency’s inspector general
• Perez: Democrats Are Subsidizing Health Insurance Predators

  Democrats want to pay billions to put Americans on expensive corporate health insurance plans rather than expand Medicare or create a public option. It’s a gift to a criminal private insurance industry that needs to be completely abolished
• Rock: How Wall Street Killed Grandma

  20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data
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  Prashad: Your Privileges Are Not Universal

  We praise the hopes and struggles of the people, whose desire to advance history will cut through your repression
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  Emanuele: COVID Hurricane on the Horizon

  Dr. Michael Osterholm is warning that a “Category 5 COVID-hurricane” is on the horizon, with the B117/UK Variant posing the greatest threat
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  Cook: By putting Big Pharma’s patents before patients, doctors will further erode trust in experts

  I have spent the past several years on my blog trying to highlight one thing above all others: that the institutions we were raised to regard as authoritative are undeserving of our blind trust
• Menon: How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable

  A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net