Coronavirus

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…

Like other central banks, the E.C.B., which met on Thursday, is scrambling to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval.

Liu Shao-hua earned her PhD in Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology at Columbia University, and is now a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research takes AIDS, drug use, leprosy, and environmental issues as a lens for analysing the nature and trajectories of contemporary social change and individual life […]

Dow plunges 1,190 points as analysts say virus could inflict as much damage as 2008 crisis

"This decision could cost people their lives. Pence's past decisions already have."

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

Pence has a track record of ignoring public health advice.

Here's what to do if you want to create a public health crisis.

Getting ready for the possibility of major disruptions is not only smart; it’s also our civic duty

The U.S. Treasury is now allowing some humanitarian trade but it may not be enough—and the damage is already done.

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

Dr Yannis Gourtsoyannis addresses the conspiracies surrounding China's response to the spread of Covid-19

The possibility of a global pandemic will reveal our inability to make and distribute the things people need—just in time for a presidential election.

(A guest post from fellow CounterPunch contributor Manuel Garcia Jr.) Hello, Here are some notes on viruses, viral infections, and preventative measures to ward off infections. The text is from Ric…

President lets it be known he sees honest medical information as a political threat.

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

Instead of investing in genuine wealth that keeps us alive, we’ve chased the imaginary wealth of the stock market. It’s dissolving like the mirage it always was.

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.

Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.

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.