COVID-19

Online and on social media, Chinese families blamed authorities for the death of a four-month-old …

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

Thoughts from an elementary school teacher about 3 years of the pandemic. …

World governments are responding as ineffectively to the monkeypox outbreak as they did to COVID-19. …

The United States has reached one million Covid deaths. …

As the BA.2 variant of COVID-19 spreads, the U.S. is acting like the pandemic is over. …

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

The EU is discarding more vaccines than it donates to Africa, while blocking vaccine production in Africa. …

UCLA students won safety measures after a 16-day sit-in. …

California extended COVID sick leave for workers until September 30, but 1 in 4 workers are excluded from it. …

BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) management is warning that without additional funding, BART will start …

From coast to coast, we have seen students list their demands for safe schools and stage walkouts, refusing to accept the breadcrumbs the people in power have tossed them. …

UC students skipped class last week to protest the administration’s reopening policies. …

Healthcare workers continue to face the reality of Covid during the Omicron wave. …

In a society that prioritized the life and health of all people, every person would have access to a free education that empowered them to reach their full potential. But under capitalism, the purpose of education is to keep schools open so that the economy keeps going and the profits keep rolling in. …

The COVID pandemic, on top of all of the longstanding economic instability, is causing record levels of forced migration from South America into the United States. …

Punitive measures against truancy set in place by Kamala Harris, are now being leveled against students in Oakland who have had the audacity to demand that their schools provide real safety protection. …

Are the CDC’s new looser guidelines based on science, or economic considerations? …

A new COVID vaccine is in the works that is intended to be produced at a low cost and with no patent protections, making it capable for others to produce it. …

Workers at the Bay Area Rapid Transit system are confronted with the challenges of the latest COVID surge. …

On January 13, teachers in the National Education system went on strike en masse. Even the leading parents’ federation had called for children not to go to school. …

The Supreme Court just voted down vaccine mandates, undermining the ability of OSHA to maintain a safe working environment. …

Hundreds of Marylanders are being notified that they may have received ineffective vaccine doses. …

Let’s coordinate so we can work together and reclaim our power from the capitalists. Here is a good resolution for 2022: risk everything to gain everything. …

A personal account from a worker at a COVID testing clinic. …

The reason that free or affordable tests and masks haven’t been available in the U.S. until now is the same reason we’ve been stuck in this COVID crisis – this system prioritizes profits above health and safety. …

Por mucho que todo el mundo esperara que el año 2022 pudiera ser el comienzo de una nueva fase en esta pandemia, a cada paso las prioridades de este sistema siguen prolongándola. …

A teacher in Baltimore gives a report about conditions in schools during the pandemic. …

Why is that after almost two years of the pandemic, it is so challenging to get a COVID test that many have to wait in line for hours? …

The heads of the pharmaceutical industry are more interested in making as much profits as possible by primarily selling their vaccines to the wealthiest nations rather than to distribute them equitably around the world to wipe out COVID. …

People in Guadeloupe and Martinique have been protesting against the social problems caused by French control. …

In the French West Indies, Guadeloupe and Martinique, an explosive social movement has been underway for weeks against the imposition of mandatory vaccination in workplaces and the institution of a health pass. …

Shutting down travel to supposedly fight the spread of the virus is nothing but political theater and feeds into racism. …

The longer countries like the U.S. protect the profits of the drug companies and delay vaccinating the rest of the world, the more time the coronavirus has to mutate and cause another surge in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Once again, this pandemic continues to remind us that their system cannot keep us safe. …

Utility debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since the pandemic. …

If you were going to be in a fight for your life, would you want to be armed and ready or still fashioning your weapons after the enemy has attacked? That is my answer to NBA players like Beal and others who are still unclear on the reason for vaccination. Being unvaccinated means that you are unarmed and unprepared for an attack, with luck as your only weapon. …

It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …

Vaccination is an effective measure against disease, but we should not blame the unvaccinated for the government’s response to the pandemic. …

According to FBI data, the US saw the largest increase during 2020 since record-keeping began in 1960. …

Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …

In Raj Patel’s latest book and Rupa Marya’s debut title, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the …

The problems of the for-profit healthcare system existed before COVID. COVID demonstrated just how broken the system is. …

On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s repeated lack of commitment to the measures that would be needed to end this global pandemic.   …

On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913, the equivalent of 1 in 500 Americans. …

Companies that make test kits can charge what they want and get fat off this health disaster, even if it means most people won’t have access to the care they need. …

This is the capitalist system – highest efficiency and ingenuity when the goal is invading and committing murder in other countries, but unable to provide basic necessities, housing, utilities, education, healthcare and safety for its own population. The problems that we face having nothing to do with what is and isn’t “possible.” They have everything to do with this system’s priorities.  …

If the district is going to provide every school the safety measures being demanded, it’s going to be because they were fought for. …

A week before the fateful date, the conditions for back to school were still unclear. Schools are now back in session. …