Coronavirus

Naomi Klein explains how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic.

For the first time ever, Team Trump, so adept at lying, is confused about which lie to tell.

She got Dr. Robert Redfield to agree to free coronavirus testing for all Americans.

Because the U.S. data on coronavirus infections are so deeply flawed, the quantification of the outbreak obscures more than it illuminates

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The Trump administration’s decision to forgo a World Health Organization test and create its own had fateful consequences, experts say.

Events on a world scale are moving at breakneck speed. The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has set in motion a chain reaction, which is upending any semblance of stability in one country after another. All of the contradictions of the capitalist system are coming crashing to the surface.

“Do me a favor, speed it up, speed it up.” This is what U.S. President Donald Trump told the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference, recounting what he said to pharmaceutical executives about the progress toward a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Anthony Fauci, the long-time leader of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been telling the president repeatedly that developing the vaccine will take at least a year and a half—the same message conveyed by...

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde Rosa Miriam Elizalde is a Cuban journalist and editor of the site Cubadebate. Reprinted from La Jornada, translation by Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau. Cuba’s antiviral Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec) is among the medicines chosen by China to treat the coronavirus, the disease that has…

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

The European country hit hardest by coronavirus, Italy has announced a near-total shutdown of shops and public venues, but many nonessential workplaces are still running. Refusing to let bosses risk their safety, workers are now going on strike.

Some people see the world as an infinite number of prize fights, each with one winner and one loser. For them life is an unending series of these zero-sum games. Unfortunately, one of these people is the President of the United States. One example of something that is not a zero-sum game is a global More

Our governments are failing us, we need to take action now! Do your part and stay the fuck home!

To properly address a pandemic like COVID-19, we have to get rid of the economic hurdles that undermine public health.

Politicians and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?

The president cannot recognize, much less deal with, reality.

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Social developments constantly surprise. The latest anxieties over the economic contradictions of extreme globalization haven’t been triggered by a trade

Inmates making masks and hand sanitiser to ease shortages are among most vulnerable to Covid-19, prison reformers warn

‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hide-outs

There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care.

A socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations.

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.

We are witnessing a big crisis in the stock markets on Wall Street, Europe, Japan and Shanghai, and many blame the coronavirus for it. In the last week of

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.