The Coronavirus Pandemic

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Despite the fact that Covid remains the third leading cause of death, killing about 400 …

On September 18, a maskless President Joe Biden declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

This article was edited since it originally was posted on March 11. Across the U.S., …

As Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is finishing its second week of the current semester, it …

Politicians are rushing to reopen the economy and they don’t care how many coffins they fill. …

In the midst of widespread panic, fear and economic instability, most of the world’s rich and powerful have been forced to flee to their multi-million dollar mansions and vacation homes. …

The United Nations food agency estimates that over seven million people, mostly young children, die of hunger every year. That’s in normal times without a pandemic! …

On March 25, the EPA announced it is rolling back environmental protections in response to the coronavirus. …

News reports confirm that Jeff Bezos, already far and away the world’s richest man, increased his wealth by $25 BILLION in only six weeks! How did he do this? …

To the wealthy, we are things to exploit, not people who deserve respect. Nothing could make this more clear than the sick fact that landlords are using the current economic crisis to demand sexual favors. …

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, millionaires in the U.S. stand to receive a lot more than $1,200. They’re getting $1.6 million in deductions, EACH. …

The Smithfield pork-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a huge eight-story meat processing plant that employs 3,700 workers. …

Trump has formed a committee he calls the “Opening Our Country Council,” supposedly a committee of experts to figure out how to relax social distancing measures …

3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Over 10,000 people have died in New York City from the coronavirus. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if governments had taken the pandemic seriously …

For several weeks now, President Trump has been pushing the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a …

Around the world, prisoners are stuck in overcrowded facilities where the risk of getting COVID-19 is high. …

At a press conference in March, President Trump said that “nobody knew” there’d be a pandemic of this proportion. He’s lying. …

The COVID-19 crisis has put many people’s lives as well as livelihoods at risk. In response, the federal government has done nothing for renters or mortgage holders. …

Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rioted on Thursday. They raged through offices, broke windows, and set fires. …

Montana Governor Steve Bullock is allowing construction to begin on the infamous Keystone XL oil pipeline in Montana. …

Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …

The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic. …

This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, …

With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks …

To lower the number of Covid-19 cases, people are encouraged to stay inside their house. But what do you do when you don’t even have a house to stay in? …

Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access …

Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic …

The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus …

The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …

As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes …

The virus doesn’t discriminate based on where you were born. But the U.S. government does. …

On Monday, General Electric (GE) factory workers held demonstrations at two different plants, with the demand that the company use its aviation factories to produce ventilators. …

You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …

Instacart, a company that lets you order groceries online and have them delivered from your favorite stores, has seen a boom in business since the coronavirus has forced people to stay home. …

Childhelp, a national anonymous hotline to report child abuse, has reported a 23 percent increase in calls and a 263 percent increase in texts for March 2020 compared to March 2019. …

Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …

In country after country we are seeing an Olympics of failure. And the U.S. deserves the gold medal. …

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs …

New York City is the center of the coronavirus crisis right now, and many people …

On March 23rd, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a report with daunting new information on the coronavirus …

Healthcare workers protested the lack of protective equipment (PPE) outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Oakland, …

Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …

On Monday, President Trump suggested that he’d lift the current shutdown on March 31. This is against the advice of top health officials …

On the evening of March 23, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, did an interview on Fox News and declared …

For the past couple of weeks, nurses at Kaiser Hospital have been caring for patients that came from the Grand Princess cruise ship and tested positive for coronavirus. Although there was time for the hospital to prepare before the ship docked, management implemented a training scheme only after the first confirmed cases of patients with Covid-19 arrived. …

While Fox news was denying coronavirus was a problem, Fox’s owner was acting differently. …