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The latest wave in the U.S. of COVID new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, which began in the autumn, rose to new highs in the first days of the new year.
How bad this became is indicated that within weeks total deaths are on schedule to reach half a million since the pandemic began. Over 95 million of these projected total deaths occurred in January alone, almost 20 percent.
This spike within the new wave was attributed to the large amount of travel, partying and large gatherings over (...)
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke out this week about the stark differences in serving under former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, describing it as a “liberating” experience.
Fauci, who served on Trump’s coronavirus (...)
There are 10.5 million immigrants who are not legally authorized to work in the U.S. and 2.2 million immigrants with temporary status.
The Pew Research Center reports that if the current immigration trends continue, immigrants and their descendants will account for 78 percent of the United (...)
Move comes after Republicans voiced anger over the delay, which resulted in millions of Americans losing unemployment aid.
Donald Trump has abruptly signed a $900 billion Covid-19 relief and spending bill, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver (...)
The current upsurge if the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is by far the most serious period of the infection to date. Hospitals are reaching full capacity in some areas, which may become a national problem. One hot spot has been in prisons and jails. Another group of hot spots are (...)
The new accelerating upsurge in infections of the corona virus in the U.S. has reached over 170,000 per day, well above the some 63,000 at the peak of last summer’s wave. On November 13, it surged to a one-day record 184,000. In one week, the number of total cases since the pandemic began went (...)
A new upturn in reported cases began in September, rose steadily, and then began to accelerate. Measured as a seven day moving average of new cases daily (which smooth’s out daily reporting fluctuations) as of October 26 there were about 70,000 new cases per day and growing.
This exceeds the (...)
Experts say president’s five-star round-the-clock treatment would result ‘catastrophic debt for most people’
When most Americans are admitted to the hospital, one concern beyond health is usually at the top of patient’s mind: the cost of their treatment.
One American who does not have to worry (...)
The fact that Trump was found to have COVID-19 and became sick enough that he was sent to a Navy hospital has put the pandemic back in the center stage of the presidential campaign.
On October 6, Trump released himself from the hospital and returned to the White House although he remains sick (...)
In the midst of social crisis, mutual aid can help build collective infrastructure, and promote a parallel, shared economy.
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s exacerbation of unemployment, evictions, and food insecurity—as well as an encroaching authoritarian state—mutual aid must be a vital part of (...)
In a recent Jacobin interview entitled “We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole, ” ecologist and epidemiologist Katherine Yih and professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff, both at Harvard Medical School, offered neither. Instead, their “radical strategy” for (...)
Joseph Daher: Can you tell us about the current situation in the US regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Ashley Smith: We are in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe with distinctly US characteristics. Over 7 million people have been infected with the virus, more than 200,000 people have died, (...)
The president thinks that as long as they buoy the stock market, they’re helping the US economy – and that’s pure rubbish.
Since the start of the pandemic, American billionaires have been cleaning up. As more than 50 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance, billionaires became $637bn (...)
Donald Trump has launched an all-out war to reopen schools across the country this fall. Educators are standing up to resist plans that would put our students, their families, or our co-workers in danger.
Trump Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany laid out the administration’s position: “The (...)
A push is underway to reopen schools in the fall. On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump demanded that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) water down its guidelines for safe reopening of schools. “I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough and expensive guidelines for opening schools” Trump (...)
The breathing space afforded by lockdowns in the spring has been squandered, with new cases running at five times the rate of the whole of Europe. Things will only get worse, experts warn.
In early June, the United States awoke from a months-long nightmare.
Coronavirus had brutalized the (...)
Because the Trump administration has utterly failed to organize or even propose a national plan to deal with the corona virus, the United States has been in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic since February up to the present.
In states that opened up their economies way too early and (...)
In the United States we are facing a number of interrelated crises: the coronavirus, the economy, institutional racism including police violence against African Americans, disarray in the federal government, and climate change.
The new upsurge in virus infections is increasing. Spikes in new (...)
Shops around the US make headlines for denying entry to those wearing masks as protesters argue against preventative measures in the name of freedom.
In the last few weeks a spate of American stores have made headlines after putting up signs telling customers who wear masks they will be denied (...)
The Labor Department released figures for the unemployment rate for April. They said that the rate was 14.7 percent, the highest rate since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Labor Department said that because of how it classifies workers, the real figure could be 20 percent.
These figures (...)
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