Latest Health

• Prabhala: Stop Exporting Indian-Made Vaccines to Rich Nations

  More than a dozen civil society groups in India have written an open urging Johnson & Johnson to cancel export of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine doses to rich countries and instead focus on distributing them in the Global South
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  Elbaum: Trump, Texas, and the MAGA Drive for Power

  The more we contribute to beating the MAGA Faction in this round of voting, the better positioned we are to push further toward the multiracial democracy, transformed economy, and changed relationship with the planet
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  Weisbrot: Republicans blocking desperately needed pandemic relief for the world’s poor

  Allowing the IMF to issue $1.5 trillion in special drawing rights would save countless lives and wouldn’t cost U.S. taxpayers a dime
• McInnis: Pedagogy of the Apocalypse

  In a year filled with trauma, a university professor learns how to support her students
• Lawson: We’re Going to Take on Big Pharma and Win

  Any politician who puts Pharma profits before the needs of their constituents will lose their jobs. And they will deserve it
• Secchi: Teaching Without Mask and Vaccine Mandates

  At the University of Iowa, faculty are forbidden from asking students to wear masks in classrooms or offices
• Hastings: We are being out-evolved

  As each new meteorological record for heat was smashed again and again, Detroit and the American consumer yawned
• Batchlor: I’m a Black Doctor. My Mom Still Won’t Get Vaccinated.

  I’m frustrated, but I can’t really blame her. Here’s why.
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  Miller: We Found Rage In A Hopeless Place

  A lot of people thought this summer would be great, but most people seem totally fried and at loose ends instead — expectations keep getting subverted, and anger keeps flowing into the void
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  Pitt: As Delta Surges, Other Variants Wait in the Wings. Biden Must Take Action.

  Put simply, there is deep fear within viral research circles that the mutations found in Mu may allow the variant to defeat our vaccine-enhanced immunity
• Koehler: Letting the future out of its cage

  Even as we allegedly pull out of Afghanistan, the American defense budget increases. Orwell was right. Endless war is the real point of all this
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  Prashad: Solely Because of the Increasing Disorder

  One of the great downsides of our current inflation of atrocities is the sense that nothing other than this nightmare is possible. Alternatives cannot be imagined
• Sheridan-Gonzalez: Our For-Profit Health System Is Worsening a Nursing Shortage Amid Delta’s Surge

  Nurses often choose to leave hospital staff and opt for these assignments in various locations in order to make more money, travel and avoid the torments of staff nurse positions in uncaring facilities
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  Wilkins: House Dems Introduce Bill to Lower Medicare Age to 60

  "Lowering the Medicare eligibility age will not only be life-changing for at least 23 million people, it will also be lifesaving for so many across America."
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  Cook: On child vaccines, the experts are suddenly reluctant to follow ‘the science’

  Into the void between our scientific knowledge and our fear of mortality has rushed politics
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  Mason: The new alliance between anti-vaxxers and the far right is a deadly threat

  The claim that vaccines are being used to commit genocide is an echo of the white supremacist “Great Replacement Theory”.
• Manderson: Evangelicals, science and the vaccine

  Too many of my fellow evangelicals see science as the mortal enemy of faith. It doesn't have to be that way
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  Cohen: Building Trades Union Imposes Vaccine Mandate on Itself

  The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades has gone further than other unions, which are negotiating vaccine requirements with employers
• Ottenberg: Covid Strikes Back

  Workers in the U.S. faced a lousy choice at the height of the pandemic – starve or get sick and possibly die. Workers in China would rightly consider this barbaric. And so would their leaders
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  Baker: Denmark and the Case for Optimism on the Pandemic

  Covid may be with us for a while, but it need not be a dreaded disease and pose a major threat to the economy