BY: Chris Walker, Truthout On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears about the disease. “Anybody that needs a test gets a test, […]
BYAmy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! Is the coronavirus pandemic generating a mental illness crisis? Millions face isolation, poverty and anxiety. We speak with psychology professor and author Andrew Solomon, as the United Nations calls on […]
By Emma Farge and Michael Shields Geneva – The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would […]
by: MICHAEL BARKER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Pharmaceutical corporations make billions providing drugs to help improve some people’s lives, in much the same way that privately-run hospitals provide care to those who can afford to […]
by EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: The White House from Washington, DC – Public Domain From the start, testing for Covid-19 in the U.S. has been abysmal. Experts agree that without adequate testing, the disease cannot be […]
by CONN HALLINAN Photograph Source: U.S. Navy – Public Domain “There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet plagues and wars take people equally by surprise” –Albert Camus, “The Plague” Camus’ novel of […]
BYEoin Higgins, Common Dreams The Democrat majority House of Representatives passed a massive, $3 trillion coronavirus relief stimulus package known as the HEROES Act roughly along party lines on Friday night despite progressive concerns over […]
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Earlier this week, the Trump administration started hinting that the president’s “temporary” ban on immigration, rushed into effect in late April as a part of the pandemic response, was about to be […]
BY: Jaisal Noor, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 On May Day, food service workers led a socially distanced protest at the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, taking part in the […]
BY: Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 In times of crisis, who we are is revealed. That is true of people and of nations. What COVID-19 has exposed […]