Latest Health

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  Varoufakis: Capitalist Nations Bailed Out Banks While Skimping on Vaccinating Humanity

  More than 2.6 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, but many countries have yet to see a single shot amid mounting infections
• Menon: The Pandemic Is Us (But Now Mostly Them)

  Power, Wealth, and Justice in the Time of Covid-19
• Hvistendahl: I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Debate

  What I Learned Helps Explain the Clash Over Covid-19’s Origins
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  Sarkar: Immunity is liberty: Vaccine internationalism during a pandemic

  The various grassroots-based community initiatives active across the world are breaking the barriers of identities as well as challenging divisive capital-politics linkages to embrace each other
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  Rogers: COVID-19 is a bigger threat than war

  So why isn’t it funded the same?
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  Cohn: Affordable Care Act Survives Right-Wing Attack in Supreme Court

  In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court rejected a right-wing challenge to the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas, preserving health insurance for 21 million people
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  Klikauer: Covid-19 and Global Working Conditions

  Capitalism under the conditions of the Coronavirus pandemic has made working life for many that much worse predominantly for the workers of the Global South
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  Cockburn: Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries

  For all the self-congratulatory talk about Britain donating vaccines to the world’s poor, it is in practice knowingly parasitic on their ill-funded health systems
• Queally: On Climate and Covid-19 Emergencies, G7 Judged a ‘Colossal Failure’

  "Never in the history of the G7 has there been a bigger gap between their actions and the needs of the world. In the face of these challenges the G7 have chosen to cook the books on vaccines and continue to cook the planet."
• Madad: Vaccine Hesitancy

  Shots Expire, Variants Emerge, Pandemic Drags On
• Davies: A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

  Humanity’s survival into the 22nd century and all our hopes for a bright future depend on building new political and economic systems that will simply and genuinely “do what is best for all of us.” 
• : “Disaster Patriarchy”

  The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in gender-based violence, job losses in female-dominated industries, greater parenting duties for mothers, and other pressures that primarily fall on women around the world
• Baiocchi: Housing Is a Social Good

  The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market
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  Jorden: Actor’s Death Links Homophobia, Sexism and Covid Denial in Brazil

  Paulo Gustavo was remembered in mass protests in 24 states and the capital district on May 29 against the Bolsonaro government’s inaction in the face of Covid
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  Feffer: Even With Light at End of Pandemic Tunnel, We Mustn’t Be Complacent

  Interview on how a unified pandemic response could repair and restore social movements and compacts in helping to reshape the national and global economy
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  Raina: Ramdev Baba: Icon of ‘New India’

  Does the Baba use a mask? No. Has he taken a vaccine shot? No. Has the virus made any difference to his well-being? A resounding no. What more is needed to disprove the hollow claims of allopathy?
• Burleigh: Swept into a Covid Hell of Profits

  The Great Forgetting, Part 2
• Stancil: Critics Call Biden’s Vaccine Sharing Plan ‘Woefully Inadequate’

  "The idea this pandemic will be dealt with by a mixture of rich country charity and corporate goodwill is such nonsense," said one global justice advocate. "People's Vaccine now."
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  Klikauer: The Coronavirus Pandemic and Global Wages

  Those unable to work from home were hit hardest, particularly in the hospitality and retail sectors, again where women outnumber men
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  Cook: Was there a Wuhan lab leak?

  An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception