Thursday, April 3, 2025

Tag: health

Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic....

As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.

Public health first

The richest nation in the world surely has enough resources to keep its people safe at home for as long as it takes.

Having it easy in the beginning, tough in the end

How my dad predicted the decline of America...

Set to approve $4.5 trillion to bail out corporations, Trump White...

"As governors and local leaders around the country are making clear, private efforts without more extensive government support are proving far from sufficient to meet the current and anticipated needs."

Why is the US so exceptionally vulnerable to COVID-19?

This is why the U.S. has so quickly become the center of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We won’t go back to normal, because normal was the problem

When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart.

Trump will not use Defense Production Act to order manufacturing of...

With prices rising, supplies lacking, and healthcare officials working endlessly, the importance of vital medical equipment should not be negotiable.

‘Humanitarian solidarity’: even under US sanctions, Cuba sends doctor brigade to...

"It just goes to the history of Cuba’s deep and long-lasting commitment to humanitarian solidarity with other countries.”

“Hope is not a strategy”: Emergency doctor asks, where are COVID-19...

“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.”

A triage crisis is coming, and it’s personal

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

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GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.

Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?

Women and workers voting in Wisconsin Supreme Court race defeat the richest man in...

This election may signal the beginnings of a backlash against the Trump regime.

67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns

Sanders warns that Elon Musk’s plan to slash Social Security staffing could double disability claim wait times and deaths, as Trump nominee faces Senate vote.

Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...

Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?