Tag: health

“First we’re going to run out of masks, and then we’re going to run out of doctors and nurses, because they’ll become sick.”

Epidemic Epistle: A COVID-19 crisis diary by Dave & Gary Lindorff...

As we respond to the coronavirus emergency and the immediate needs of the people and communities impacted by it, let us also keep in view the systemic needs and possibilities that crisis exposes.

There is no public health system in the U.S., in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.

The cost of healthcare doesn’t just protect the patient, but potentially it protects all of us from the spread of disease. Paying that cost should be a matter of social importance.

We’re in chaos now and this thing’s just beginning!

"Citizens, media and decision-makers should know who pays for studies on subjects of public interest."

It is fair to question whether the media has done, or is doing, a proper job of providing accurate information while avoiding the ratings- and revenue-driven temptation to blow the problem out of proportion.

In a country with such poor health care access and poor labor laws, hoping for the best is a recipe for disaster

We are joined by two epidemiologists to examine the response so far around the world and in the United States.