public health

Schools in France re-opened May 11, at least in the areas where the virus has spread the least …

Trump released a statement saying that “governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now, for this weekend.” What an irresponsible statement! …

While visiting a medical supply distributor in Pennsylvania last week, Trump announced he is planning for future pandemics. …

In the U.S. there are 470,000 dwellings with inadequate plumbing. Nearly a million homes lack complete and functioning kitchens. More than 4 million …

Government-endorsed deforestation in the Amazon rainforest threatens genocide of indigenous communities while increasing the risk of more pandemics and wildfires. …

While there have been some efforts at collaboration, it has become apparent that the search for a viable vaccine is ultimately driven by wasteful competition among governments and profiteering corporations. …

Blame is the name of the game, and with the coronavirus spreading rapidly through meat processing facilities, politicians are playing hard at blaming workers. …

Across the United States, as of last week there were over 50,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 10,000 deaths in nursing homes and other senior living facilities. …

In Baltimore City, Maryland, the living legacy of racial segregation, economic inequality and poverty dominate the health of the population. …

There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been slow to reach most of Africa compared to Europe and the United States. But that is changing. …

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 …

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

Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …

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? …

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

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. …

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …

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 …

Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …

Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves. …

Truckers and warehouse workers at UPS and FedEx feel they have not choice but to keep showing up, even with coronavirus-like sypmtoms …

Now is the time to imagine a better world. …

Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week. …

One positive takeaway from the world’s response to the coronavirus epidemic is that it’s entirely possible to successfully combat two other existential and intertwined global crises: climate change and air pollution. …