A universal vaccine is desperately needed.

Under the U.S.’s for-profit health system, the epidemic is not being treated like the public emergency it is.

From subway straps to scooters, urban living is all about sharing stuff — and swapping germs. Here’s how to lower your risk of contracting Covid-19.

Thread by @silviast9: 1/ I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nos going to happen "here". The media in Europe are reassuring, politicians are reassuring, while there's little to…

Even with a robust government response to the novel coronavirus, many people will be in peril. And the United States is anything but prepared.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, leader of the team that visited China, details what every country should do to stop the coronavirus.

This past week five trillion dollars were wiped off the world’s stock markets, triggered by Coronavirus fears. Working-class people, in the path of the virus, will, however, have far more important

Thread by @LizSpecht: I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n Let’s conservatively assume that there are 2,000 current cases in the US today…

The coronavirus has highlighted the moral imperative and the pragmatic rationale for universal health care.

As the secular crisis of capitalism takes on a seemingly non-economic character, new epidemics, famines, floods and other “natural” disasters will be used as a justification for the extension of st…

The virus’s final penetrance worldwide will depend on the difference between the rate of infection and the rate of removing infections—by recovery or death. If the infection rate far exceeds removal…

Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.

The response to the coronavirus shows that neither the US nor the world is ready for a global pandemic. We desperately need a public health system that rejects philanthrocapitalism and prioritizes preparedness over corporate profits.

The contemporary quarantine represents a merger between authoritarian governance and the growth of private, selective health-care infrastructure.

It might seem paradoxical, but the terrible coronavirus epidemic seems to be having the positive effect of bringing the fundamental issues of politics back to the forefront—the same ones that … Continued

We hope this list of demands will serve as a tool for organizers and activists who are crafting their own responses to COVID-19.

Democrats need a much more wide-ranging economic and public-health response—and right away.

The United States is in the throes of a colossal health crisis. In 2015 life expectancy began falling for the first time since the height of the AIDS crisis in 1993. The causes—mainly suicides, alcohol-related deaths, and drug overdoses—claim roughly 190,000 lives each year.

The Trump administration has spent the past several years gutting the government programs responsible for combatting a global health crisis.

China, Iran, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes have concealed information and exacerbated the spread of the disease.

The White House’s neurotic obsession with hurting the disadvantaged is going to get us all killed (or, at least, many of us needlessly ill).

The coronavirus outbreak in China has come down hard on the country's poor who cannot afford to be quarantined, have less access to supplies, and do not have the money or the connections to leave the country.

If there’s an epidemic the government may not be able to keep its citizens safe, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

This list doesn't include Donald Trump Jr.'s claim that Democrats wanted the virus to spread and kill Americans.

Several global health units of the U.S. government have faced budget crises—or shut down completely.

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