graham (2020-05-19). Private healthcare hospitals poised to cash in on exploding surgery waiting list. truepublica.org.uk The COVID-19 crisis caused NHS Doctors to postponed more than 2million operations after non-emergency surgery was cancelled for at least three months to free up beds for coronavirus patients. This number was just less than eight weeks of booked operations that currently costs the NHS £1billion a month. \"We have to do a really major …

Karen J. Greenberg (2020-05-19). Covid-19 Is Destroying the Myth of American Exceptionalism. thenation.com Covid-19 Is Destroying the Myth of American Exceptionalism…

news.un (2020-05-19). WHO countries agree 'equitable and timely access' to coronavirus vaccine, 'comprehensive evaluation' of response. news.un.org The World Health Organization (WHO) concluded the annual World Health Assembly on Tuesday, adopting a resolution that calls for an independent review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the agency\'s own performance.

Sasha Abramsky (2020-05-19). Is Trump Encouraging Paramilitary Violence? thenation.com Is Trump Encouraging Paramilitary Violence?

news.un (2020-05-19). Coordination essential to beat coronavirus, keep development goals on track. news.un.org As the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis continues to wreak havoc across the world — with the most vulnerable suffering the most — the UN chief said on Tuesday that the task of eradicating poverty and achieving the development goals \"has never been more challenging, more urgent and more necessary\".

Massoud Nayeri (2020-05-19). Poverty Forces Chileans to Cook in \'the Common Pot\'. globalresearch.ca Capitalism is a system to accumulate capital. People are only a commodity in this system. The Coronavirus crisis has enabled the capitalists to pay less for the healthy laborers to make more profit. The rest are left to their own …

Tom Clifford (2020-05-19). China\'s \"Two Sessions\" in Beijing Against a Backdrop of COVID-19. globalresearch.ca Even though it\'s being held on its home turf, Beijing will play second fiddle for the next week as thousands of delegates pour into the capital to debate, argue and socialize amid the \"Two Sessions\". | The sessions, taking place after …

Ellen Brown (2020-05-19). Another U.S Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus. globalresearch.ca When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, \"No more bailouts!\" But what the Act actually said was that the next time the banks failed, they would be subject to \"bail ins\" — the funds …

Ashley Curtin (2020-05-19). 5G Wireless Radiation: Scientists Warn Harmful Biologic, Health Effects. \"We Are Flying Blindly\" globalresearch.ca New 5G cellular wireless technology is already rolling out in some states. But as a country, there is little to no research on the health effects of the new technology. As one United States\' senator put it, we are \"flying …

William Walter Kay (2020-05-19). The Montreal Nursing Homes\' COVID-19 Fatalities. Increasing Quebec COVID-19 Death Rate? globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of our readers this important article by author William Walter Kay. The article raises two fundamental issues: | The first pertains to the deplorable heath care conditions (and the lack of personnel) affecting patients in Quebec\'s …

Leo Panitch (2020-05-19). In and Against the Brazilian State. globalresearch.ca Following the demise of the communist regimes, and the collaboration of so many social-democratic parties in neoliberal, capitalist globalization, a strong anarchist sensibility emerged, quite understandably, on the radical left, and remained influential for a considerable period of time. From …

Jeffrey A. Tucker (2020-05-19). The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea. globalresearch.ca Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn\'t lock down almost the entire country in

The BMJ (2020-05-19). COVID-19: Testing Testing. globalresearch.ca The following article published by the British Medical Journal provides a critical perspective on the health impacts and political implications of the Lockdown. | Lockdown is a crude instrument. On its own it can\'t eliminate covid-19, but it buys a …

David Hearst (2020-05-19). Israel\'s Annexation Plan Is \"The Nakba Revisited\" globalresearch.ca Anniversaries commemorate past events. And you could be forgiven for thinking that an event which happened 72 years ago is indeed in the past. | This is true of most anniversaries, except when it comes to

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-05-19). Why Thinking Makes it So: Donald Trump\'s Obamagate Fixation. globalresearch.ca The \"gate\" suffix has been wearing thin since the break-in scandal that gave it its birth. Since Watergate, virtually anything dubious and suggestive, and much more besides, is suffixed. Which brings us to the issue of President Donald Trump\'s …

Elizabeth Shackelford (2020-05-19). Trump\'s Inspector General Purge and the Death of Dissent. commondreams.org Last Friday, Trump notified Congress of the removal of Steve Linick, the State Department\'s inspector general. This was reportedly done at Secretary Mike Pompeo\'s urging to ensure a friendlier IG was at the helm so Pompeo could avoid accountability in at least two investigations Linick was pursuing into his actions. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mike_0.jpg …

Joan Walsh (2020-05-19). The Murder That Threatened to Divide the Two Harlems. thenation.com The Murder That Threatened to Divide the Two Harlems…

commondreams (2020-05-19). Shareholders Urge JPMorgan Chase to Reduce Climate Impacts of Financing. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Michael Lynk (2020-05-19). Canada Missing in Action on Israel\'s Proposed Annexation of the West Bank. commondreams.org The UN Security Council meets on the situation in Syria at UN headquarters in October 2019. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mary Altaffer) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/file-20200518-83348-6ewy1l.jpg …

news.un (2020-05-19). Syria: UN relief chief appeals for renewal of lifesaving cross-border aid operation. news.un.org The UN\'s top aid official has urged the Security Council to renew a mechanism that provides lifesaving assistance to millions of desperate people in northwest Syria, through cross-border deliveries from Turkey.

Ali Salam (2020-05-19). Israeli Settler Convicted in Dawabsha Arson Attack. imemc.org Israel\'s Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel, on Monday, for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, the Jerusalem Post reported. Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015 terror attack that killed the infant and severely burned his older brother Ahmad …

jamanetwork (2020-05-19). The Bubonic Plague in San Francisco. jamanetwork.com We have always regarded the plague as something very distant and impossible, and have read of its ravages in India and China with much the same feeling of composure and security that we read about an uprising of the natives in Madagascar. Or perhaps we have considered it as a matter of historic interest on account of the fearful epidemics which in pre-sanitary days used to sweep over Europe, devastating countries and hardly leaving enough people behind to keep up the archives and records of the state. Even now that it is among us, and in America for the first time, there seems to be a tendency to underrate its im…

WSWS (2020-05-19). US steps up witch hunt against Chinese scientists. wsws.org The US federal government has arrested researchers and scientists of Chinese descent as part of an accelerated crackdown on alleged participants of China\'s \"Thousand Talents\" program.

WSWS (2020-05-19). Ukrainian National Police official demands a list of Jews living in Kolomyya. wsws.org The intimidation and persecution of ethnic and religious minorities within Ukraine has become routine, with far-right elements operating openly as officials of the Ukrainian state.

Robert J. Burrowes (2020-05-19). Covid-19: Breaking the lockdown, defeating the coup, averting extinction. nationofchange.org Humanity has reached the most critical point in its history. Using COVID-19 as \'cover\', the global elite is conducting a coup to take vastly greater control of our lives.

Ruth Anna Buffalo (2020-05-19). When a Two-Year Sentence Becomes a Death Sentence. aclu.org Andrea Circle Bear wasn\'t given a death sentence. , , She plead guilty last year to maintaining a drug-involved premises. She was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison. , , But shortly after being transferred from a jail in South Dakota to a federal prison in Texas, Circle Bear died of COVID-19 while in custody, just 28 days after giving birth via C-section while on a ventilator. The 30-year-old member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota was the first federally incarcerated woman to die from COVID-19. , , Just how did a pregnant woman serving time for a drug offense get sent to a crowded f…

news.un (2020-05-19). Guterres encourages Member States to reach agreement over Ethiopian Nile dam project. news.un.org UN chief António Guterres is encouraging Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to persevere with efforts to overcome their differences and reach agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

news.un (2020-05-19). 'Alarming\' military build-up underway in Libya, as COVID-19 heightens insecurity. news.un.org The civil war in Libya is in danger of intensifying as foreign intervention grows and the spectre of the COVID-19 pandemic adds to a deepening sense of insecurity, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) told the Security Council on Tuesday.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-19). Israeli Troops Erect Settler-only Bypass Road in Southern Nablus. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly embarked on erecting a bypass road, on Tuesday, in the Huwara village, south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that the road is seven kilometers-long and that it will be located on about 100 acres of Palestinian farm lands. …

Daniel Warner (2020-05-19). The World Trade Organization and the Demise of Multilateralism. counterpunch.org Seventy-five years after the creation of the United Nations in the wake of the Second World War, the recent resignation of the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Roberto Azevedo, does not bode well for the international trading system, multilateralism and International Geneva. The organization has had several setbacks even before the pandemic: The

Fight Back (2020-05-19). Read some Ho Chi Minh for his birthday. fightbacknews.org To mark the birthday of Ho Chi Minh, May, 19, 1890, Fight Back is circulating his 1960 article The path which led me to Leninism. | After World War I, I made my living in Paris, now as a retoucher at a photographer\'s, now as painter of \"Chinese antiquities\" (made in France!). I would distribute leaflets denouncing the crimes committed by the French colonialists in Viet Nam. | At that time, I supported the October Revolution only instinctively, not yet grasping all its historic importance. I loved and admired Lenin because he was a great patriot who liberated his compatriots; until then, I had read none of his boo…

Derrick Broze (2020-05-19). Which Side of the \"Vaccine Information War\" Are You On? thelastamericanvagabond.com The NY Times launches the first shot in the Vaccine Information War. Do you support individual liberty or collective force? In a recently published opinion piece, The New York Times all but declared war against Americans who question the safety of vaccines. Of course, the war being waged is — for the moment — a …

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-19). Lives Depend on Argentina\'s Debt Talks. cepr.net The New York Times See article on original site Governments won\'t be able to contain the pandemic if they are forced to use scarce foreign currency to make unsustainable debt payments. Argentina is currently engaged in intense negotiations with its creditors over at least $65 billion in government debt. The most important part of that …

WSWS (2020-05-19). Workers angry, concerned as US auto plants reopen. wsws.org Tens of thousands of workers returned to factories across the US Monday in a major test of the Trump administration\'s plans to restart the flow of corporate profits even as the death toll of the pandemic continues to rise.

Walensky RP, del Rio C. (2020-05-19). From Mitigation to Containment of the COVID-19 Pandemic. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint discusses public health strategies necessary for the US to relax its mitigation strategies—most notably expanded testing, isolation, and contact-tracing in ways that avoid stigmatization of vulnerable populations—and proposes investing returns from a reopened economy to finance testing and public health infrastructure.

Robert Reich (2020-05-19). The Privileged and Powerful in the Pandemic. commondreams.org Musk\'s thin-skinned, petulant narcissism bears an uncanny resemblance to Donald Trump, who last week tweeted, \"California should let Tesla and @elonmusk open the plant, NOW.\"(Photo: flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/musk.jpg …

WSWS (2020-05-19). Millions of Americans, including front-line workers\' families, face loss of employer-sponsored health insurance in pandemic. wsws.org The families of health care workers, first responders and other workers deemed essential who have died from COVID-19 now face the prospect of losing their health coverage due to the cut-off of their loved ones\' employer-sponsored insurance.

Dehority W. (2020-05-19). Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Pandemics, and Hollywood—Hope and Fear Across a Century of Cinema. jamanetwork.com This Arts and Medicine feature tallies the appearance of infectious disease outbreaks in cinema since 1914, and identifies common themes, such as stigmatization and physician heroism, that characterize the films.

Jessica Suriano (2020-05-19). What Happens When You Age Out of Foster Care During a Pandemic? thenation.com What Happens When You Age Out of Foster Care During a Pandemic?

WSWS (2020-05-19). US health care system devastated by COVID-19 as the markets clamor to reopen the economy. wsws.org Health care workers throughout the US have been furloughed as health care systems are facing economic devastation caused by the pandemic. A second surge in economically hard-hit areas will confront an equally devasted health care infrastructure.

Joshua K. Leon (2020-05-19). Nations Fight Extreme Patenting to Ensure Access to COVID-19 Relief. progressive.org The pandemic is spurring fresh efforts to rein in the ability of Big Pharma to put profits over public health.

news.un (2020-05-19). Post-pandemic \'green shift\' in transport could create up to 15 million jobs. news.un.org Transforming the transport sector to be more environmentally-friendly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, could create up to 15 million new jobs worldwide and help countries move to greener, healthier economies, according to a UN-backed report published on Tuesday.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-19). Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians in West Bank and Israel. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Tuesday, several Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank as well as the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip. In the occupied city of east Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of a prospective future Palestinian state, Israeli occupation authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied Arab-Palestinian …

NationAction (2020-05-19). Take Action Now: Fight for Immigrant Justice. thenation.com Take Action Now: Fight for Immigrant Justice…

graham (2020-05-19). BMJ lays out how the government response to Covid-19 got it so wrong. truepublica.org.uk The British Medical Journal is one of the world\'s oldest and most respected general medical journals. It has published a damning report that details the Boris Johnson government response to the COVID-19 crisis that can be distilled down to just a few words, — \'too little, too late and too flawed\'. The BMJ identifies what …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-19). Gene-Editing Vaccines: Forced Vaccination vs. Informed Consent In The Age Of COVID-19. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/16/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Kuehn BM. (2020-05-19). Studies Explore HIV Treatment and Prevention in Pregnant Women. jamanetwork.com Taking dolutegravir along with a single pill containing emtricitabine (FTC) and tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF) is the safest, most effective option for pregnant women with HIV and their infants, according to a large international study presented recently at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

WSWS (2020-05-19). Hundreds of Mexican maquiladora workers dying after back-to-work orders take effect. wsws.org In Northern Baja California, 432 of the 519 people who have officially died from the virus in the state were maquiladora workers.

Newsclick (2020-05-19). Global north has forgotten that private sector wants ill-health. peoplesdispatch.org The increasing corporatisation of the health sector has meant that private interests not only play a huge role in determining policy, but also control licensing. This is a threat for countries like India.

Chris Wright (2020-05-19). Learning from the Great Depression. counterpunch.org According to Mark Twain (supposedly), history doesn\'t repeat itself, but it frequently rhymes. He was right. Donald Trump, for example, rhymes with Mussolini. The decline of organized labor in recent decades rhymes with its decline in the 1920s. And the coming depression will rhyme, in many respects, with the Great Depression. For decades, in fact,

Melvin Goodman (2020-05-19). How the New York Times Enhances Trump\'s Propaganda. counterpunch.org The mendacity of Donald Trump is without parallel in the history of American presidential politics. His lies, as tabulated by the Washington Post\'s fact checker, number in the thousands. U.S. truth tellers have become Trump\'s favorite targets as Inspectors General, federal judges, intelligence officers, and the nation\'s media face constant punishment and harassment from the White

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2020-05-19). Economists Warn \'Prolonged Depression Guaranteed\' If GOP Refuse Federal Aid to State and Local Governments. commondreams.org \"The economy is currently approaching a knife edge in how recovery will proceed.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/no_job_no_rent.jpg …

Manlio Dinucci (2020-05-19). Piano Usa: controllo militarizzato della popolazione. globalresearch.ca La Fondazione Rockefeller ha presentato il ´

Sputnik News (2020-05-19). Israeli Operatives Behind \'Highly Accurate\' Cyberattack on Iranian Port Facility — Report. iranian.com On 10 May, the managing director of Iran\'s Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, confirmed in a televised statement that the county\'s port of Shahid Rajaee, in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown foreign hacker on 9 May, bringing to a halt all shipping traffic in …

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-19). Why East Beat West on Covid-19 (Part II). strategic-culture.org Andrew SALMON | It is abundantly clear that East Asia has managed the Covid-19 crisis far better than the West. So what is behind this glaring differential? | The In this part, Asia Times examines leadership, policy response, vaccination policy, travel and geographic integration,…

Staff (2020-05-19). As Pandemic Cuts Ravage Newsrooms, Diversity Is \"First Thing That Goes\" truthout.org Image Credit: Markus Spiske on Unsplash | At a time when many journalists are risking their lives to cover the coronavirus, media companies are slashing jobs and salaries. Over the past week, hundreds of journalists at Vice, Quartz, The Economist, BuzzFeed and Condé Nast have been laid off. In April, The New York Times estimated 36,000 employees of news media companies had been laid off, furloughed or had their pay reduced since the arrival of the pandemic. We speak with award-winning journalist and for…

Staff (2020-05-19). Trump Lashes Out at Fox News After Host Criticizes Hydroxychloroquine Use. truthout.org President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial medication that some have suggested, anecdotally but without scientific evidence, can help in treating those diagnosed with coronavirus. | Trump told reporters at the White House \"I\'m taking…

Staff (2020-05-19). Trump\'s \"VERY Promising\" Vaccine Is at Least a Year Away, Leaked Memo Suggests. truthout.org A leaked memo from the Pentagon suggests the Department of Defense does not hold the same optimistic tone that President Donald Trump does when it comes to how fast a vaccine for coronavirus could be developed. | The document, which is not the official view of the Pentagon, warns of a \"globally-persistent\" coronavirus environment in the U.S. for some time to come, and states that a vaccine likely won\'t be available to the public until \"at least the summer of 2021.\" | \"We have a long path ahead,…

Staff (2020-05-19). US Is Using Pandemic as an Excuse to Send Asylum Seekers Back Into Harm\'s Way. truthout.org Fernanda* doesn\'t know what to do. She fled Honduras with her husband and their toddler last year after death threats from gang members she says work with police officers in the family\'s neighborhood to extort local businesses and workers. They made it more than 1,500 miles north, hoping to seek asylum in the United States, where Fernanda\'s husband has an uncle who could provide them housing and support. | \"We just want to be safe and work and contribute,\" Fernanda told Truthout. | The family…

Staff (2020-05-19). Trump\'s Attacks on Obama Signal an Even Dirtier Stretch of Campaigning. truthout.org Dirty campaigns are nothing new in U.S. politics, but there have been a few that stand out from the pack. | Before the Republican presidential primaries began in 2000, George W. Bush held a commanding 50-point lead over the field. He was not only the clear choice of the GOP establishment, but was also the favorite son of evangelical Christians, a voting bloc that had grown muscular within Republican circles during the Clinton years. | Quite completely out of a clear blue sky, however, came John McCa…

Staff (2020-05-19). Trump\'s HHS Secretary Accidentally Admits Racism Is Driving COVID Policy. truthout.org Donald Trump\'s administration is truly a one-trick pony. Whatever narratives Trump\'s minions roll out, white supremacy and racism are always the baseline.. | During an appearance last Sunday on

Staff (2020-05-19). As States Rush to Reopen, Lack of COVID-19 Testing Is \"Achilles Heel\" for US. truthout.org President Trump claimed Monday he\'s been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, even though multiple studies show the drug can be dangerous and is not an effective treatment for COVID-19. This comes as the U.S. COVID-19 death count tops 90,000 and all 50 U.S. states prepare to partially reopen by Memorial Day. We speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of Harvard University\'s Global Health Institute, who says that testing needs to vastly improve in order for widespread reopenings. He call…

John McEvoy (2020-05-19). \"I was outraged\": Venezuelan foreign minister responds to secretive British \'reconstruction\' plans. thecanary.co On 13 May, The Canary

The Canary (2020-05-19). Trump talks from the top of his head, says ex-UK scientific adviser. thecanary.co Donald Trump\'s widely-criticised admission that he is taking a malaria drug to try to protect against coronavirus \"should be ignored\", a former chief scientific adviser has urged. | David King said the US president is \"making it up as he goes along\" after Mr Trump said he is using hydroxychloroquine, despite there being no evidence it combats Covid-19. | Trump\'s own government warns that the drug should only be administered for coronavirus in a hospital or research environment because it has potentially fatal side effects. | Work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey said on Tuesday that the admission was surpris…

Aaron Maté (2020-05-18). Exposed: CIA used Sheldon Adelson\'s firm to spy on Julian Assange. thegrayzone.com The Grayzone\'s Max Blumenthal reveals explosive new details on the CIA spying and sabotage operation against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange….

Staff (2020-05-18). Stir Crazy! Episode #36: Slaves To The Economy. therealnews.com On today\'s show: Incoming TRNN Executive Director John Duda, PERI Gender and Care Work Program economist Katherine Moos, and Economic Update host and founder of Democracy at Work Richard Wolff. Hosted by Kim Brown.

Whitney Webb (2020-05-18). As Moderna\'s Covid-19 Vaccine Takes The Lead, Its Chief Medical Officer\'s Recent Promotion of \"Gene-Editing Vaccines\" Comes to Light. thelastamericanvagabond.com Moderna\'s chief medical officer has described the company\'s products as \"hacking the software of life\" and permanently altering a person\'s genetic code. If Moderna is poised to bring the first Covid-19 vaccine to market, a deeper look at his comments and his employer are warranted. More and more frequently, government officials, political pundits and self-appointed …

Lucas Koerner (2020-05-18). Iran Sends Fuel Tankers to Venezuela, Vows \'Decisive Response\' to US Threats. venezuelanalysis.com Crippling US sanctions have caused severe fuel shortages in the Caribbean nation.

Monica Malta, Anne W. Rimoin, Nicole A. Hoff, Steffanie A. Strathdee (2020-05-18). [Commentary] The 2019-nCoV pandemic in the global south: A Tsunami ahead. thelancet.com During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, high-income countries have faced shortages of medical supplies, personal protective equipment (PPE), ICU beds and ventilators [1]. In this unexpected scenario, physicians working in the world\'s richest nations have been left to decide who will receive mechanical ventilation and, ultimately, who lives and who dies. Most countries in the Global South have yet to experience a significant wave of COVID-19, but are predicted to follow a similar trajectory as the Global North.

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-18). Wisconsin Defeats COVID-19 Tyranny as the State Supreme Court Tosses Out Lockdown Order. strategic-culture.org On May 13th the Wisconsin

Staff (2020-05-18). How Democracy Falls In East Europe And The Balkans. therealnews.com Freedom House says Eastern European and Balkans democracies are in danger. COVID-19 has opened the door to surveillance, and threatens democracies from Hungary to India to Israel.

Staff (2020-05-18). Climate Music To Soothe And Terrify You. therealnews.com Imagine if the climate crisis was a musical composition oscillating between musical highs and lows, between hope and despair. The ClimateMusic Project, in collaboration with Richard Festinger, a music composer and educator, has written the \"science-guided\" musical composition The composition was recently performed by San Francisco\'s Telegraph Quartet to celebrate Earth Day on April 22 in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). | \"Icarus in Flight\" premiered in 2018…

Staff (2020-05-18). COVID-19 Exposes The Generational Injustices That Demand Reparations. therealnews.com Generations of racism created the conditions that made African Americans more susceptible to COVID-19, and reparations are the way to address that injustice.

Ted Kelly (2020-05-18). The Nakba: 72 years of ongoing catastrophe. workers.org May 15 is the day commemorating Youm al-Nakba, the Day of Catastrophe, when white European settlers declared war on the people of Palestine in 1948. In the violence that immediately followed the settlers\' so-called \"independence\" declaration, at least 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes, and hundreds of towns . . . |

Stephanie Kenific (2020-05-18). Chicago nursing home workers achieve historic contract. liberationnews.org Nursing homes are among the places hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alan Macleod (2020-05-18). Latin America Braces for Major Spike in COVID-19 Cases. mintpressnews.com Latin America appears to be on a precipice, about to lose what little control over the COVID-19 pandemic it had. Across the region, daily positive tests are

Joe Piette (2020-05-18). Philadelphia: #FreeBlackMamas demand prisoner release. workers.org Philadelphia Protesters, led by currently and formerly incarcerated women, trans and non gender-binary people, held a rally on May 15 in a city park next to Riverside Correctional Facility to demand the release of people held in Philadelphia jails and an end to unjust cash bail. The action featured speeches . . . |

Betsey Piette (2020-05-18). On anniversary of historic bombing: MOVE\'s message is \'Free Mumia!\'. workers.org Philadelphia May 13 was an historic and emotionally charged day as the city of Philadelphia took time to commemorate the horrific bombing of the MOVE family 35 years ago. Police dropped a C4 military-grade bomb on their west Philadelphia home, killing six adults and five children. City officials, including then . . . |

Editor (2020-05-18). An all-too-familiar occurrence. workers.org Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician in Louisville, Ky., was killed by eight police bullets as she lay in her bed at 1 a.m. on March 13. Breonna Taylor This tragic incident is an all-too-familiar event. Another young Black person has died at the hands of the shoot-first, ask-questions-later . . . |

Staff (2020-05-18). How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now. democracynow.org Pandemics, like revolution, war and economic crises, are key determinants of historic change. We look at the history of epidemics, from Black Death to smallpox to COVID-19, and discuss how the coronavirus will reshape the world with leading medical historian Frank Snowden, author of \"Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.\" He is a professor emeritus at Yale University who has been in Italy since the pandemic began, and himself survived a COVID-19 infection.

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-18). Profiting From Coronavirus. strategic-culture.org Much has been written about the possibility for a new and better kind of world to emerge after coronavirus. Yet our governments cannot conceive of any model for fighting this threat to the whole world, other than the capitalist, money-making model. The much-touted \"race to develop a vaccine\" is not a race to save lives. It is a race to make billions.

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-18). The \'Clean Break\' Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East. strategic-culture.org In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled \"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm\" for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then in his first term as Prime Minister of Israel, as a how-to manual on approaching regime change in the Middle East and for the destruction of the Oslo Accords. | The \"Clean Break\" policy document outlined these goals: 1) Ending Yasser Arafat\'s and the Palestinian Authority\'s political influence, by blaming them for acts of Palestinian terrorism 2) Inducing the United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein\'s regime in Iraq. 3) Launching war against Syr…

The Canary (2020-05-18). Loss of smell or taste added to NHS Covid-19 symptoms list. thecanary.co A loss or changed sense of taste or smell are to be added to the NHS coronavirus symptoms list, weeks after experts first raised concerns that Covid-19 cases are being missed.Anyone suffering loss of taste or smell, or a noticeable change, should now self-isolate for seven days to reduce the risk of spreading the infection, England\'s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said.If the symptomatic person lives with others, they should stay at home for seven days, while all other household members should stay home for 14 days even if they do not have symptoms.The move means loss of smell or taste w…

The Canary (2020-05-18). Liz Truss trumpets benefits of UK-US trade deal for \'workers, consumers and farmers\'. thecanary.co The UK and US hope trade talks can proceed at an \"accelerated pace\" to deliver a \"comprehensive\" deal, Liz Truss said after the first round of transatlantic negotiations. | The International Trade Secretary said both sides wanted a deal to deliver benefits for workers, consumers and farmers. | Critics have warned that striking a deal will require Britain to accept looser US food and environmental standards, as well as opening up the NHS to American firms — something the government denies. | Truss said that during the talks, conducted remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, \"a number of areas showed partic…

RT (2020-05-18). \'I\'m still here\': Trump reveals he\'s been taking Hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19. rt.com US President Donald Trump shocked reporters by revealing that he has been taking the anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative against the coronavirus, following the advice of the White House physician. | \"I\'ve been taking it for about a week and a half now and I\'m still here,\" he said on Monday, following a meeting with governors at the White House. \"I was just waiting to see your eyes light up when I said this,\" he told the reporter asking the question. | Asked what evidence he had that the drug was helpful, Trump said \"I get a lot of positive calls about it,\" before adding, \"What do you have to…

RT (2020-05-18). \'Masks are Sharia-lite!\' Explosive conservative host compares Covid-19 orders to \'ISIS & TALIBAN policies\' on Rush Limbaugh Show. rt.com Conservative author Mark Steyn has taken criticism of Covid-19 lockdown orders to a new level by comparing the measures to terrorist policies and mask-wearing rules to the Sharia law. | Filling in for conservative Rush Limbaugh on his radio show on Monday, Steyn began his lockdown critique by comparing the canceling of live musical performances to performers being killed and banned in the Middle East by none other than Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. | \"You know the last time I was writing about societies banning music it was ISIS and the Taliban,\" Steyn said. \"I\'m creeped out by the fact that we\'re…

RT (2020-05-18). \'THIS WILL KILL YOU\': Media goes into anti-HCQ panic mode after Trump says he\'s taking the drug to fend off Covid-19. rt.com Media outlets rushed to denounce hydroxychloroquine after President Donald Trump revealed he was taking it as a prophylactic against the coronavirus. Pundits called the drug dangerous and ineffective based on selected studies. | \"I\'ve been taking it for about a week and a half now and I\'m still here,\" Trump said Monday during an event at the White House, adding he had heard good things about the drug from medical professionals. | Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto immediately reacted by bringing up one long-documented side effect of the drug, used for decades to treat malaria and lupus. | \'I cannot stress this enough…

RT (2020-05-18). Group that TRACKED protesters' cell phones accuses them of spreading Covid-19 across US… even if they DIDN'T leave their cars. rt.com A Democrat-linked advocacy group is blaming the spread of Covid-19 on anti-lockdown protesters in the US after tracking their cell phones cross-country. Despite the tempting partisan narrative, though, many never left their cars. | Anti-lockdown demonstrators traveled hundreds of miles to attend protests, almost certainly spreading the coronavirus to places where infections were rare, according to the Committee to Protect Medicare, a supposedly non-partisan group run by a former Democratic congressional candidate. The group provided a comprehensive analysis of smartphone location data from rallies in Michigan,…

RT (2020-05-18). \'Have a good day & be safe\': New Jersey cops are latest police force to REFUSE enforcing Covid-19 restrictions. rt.com Footage of police in New Jersey informing anti-lockdown protesters they\'re in violation of Covid-19 executive orders, but will not face consequences, is the latest example of officers taking a more hands-off approach to the rules. | People began gathering outside Atilis Gym in southern New Jersey hours before it opened on Monday to show support for the business defying executive orders from the governor, and to protest the continuing lockdown measures in place across the state. | While almost no protesters wore face coverings and were clearly breaking social distancing guidelines by gathering in a big crowd, p…

RT (2020-05-18). Saudi pilot who went on gun rampage at Florida naval base linked to \'Al-Qaeda operative\'. rt.com The FBI has found evidence linking the perpetrator of the December 2019 Pensacola naval airbase shooting, a trainee pilot of the Royal Saudi Air Force, to a suspected operative of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. | The gun attack at the Naval Air Station Pensacola left three victims dead and eight others injured. The gunman, Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was killed by responding police forces. The incident was a major embarrassment for both nations involved. | Attorney General William Barr announced on Monday that FBI investigators discovered evidence of \"significant ties\" to Al-Qaeda in the Arabia…

RT (2020-05-18). Covid-19 pandemic fuels knee-jerk anti-China sentiment just in time for Trump\'s reheated trade war. rt.com Two in five Americans won\'t buy products made in China, according to a recent survey, and nearly three-quarters blame Beijing for the Covid-19 pandemic — just in time for the relaunch of President Donald Trump\'s trade war! | On top of the 40 percent of Americans who said they wouldn\'t purchase made-in-China goods under any circumstances, in an FTI Consulting poll

RT (2020-05-18). \'Take the red pill\': Elon Musk sends Twitter into Matrix meltdown, gets Ivanka Trump\'s praise… & \'f*** you both\' from Wachowski. rt.com Elon Musk has yet again triggered an online storm, urging the public to \"take the red pill.\" The Matrix reference got him showered in praise from conservatives, but the creators of the iconic movie were not amused. | The new cryptic message from the billionaire, who has been repeatedly tweeting out bizarre things lately, arrived on Sunday afternoon. Unlike the lengthy and even less coherent threads Musk produced in the past, this time he stuck to a short form worthy of a true masterpiece. | \"Take the red pill,\" he stated, posting a red rose emoji. | Take the red pill üåπ— Elon Musk…

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-18). The Heat: China\'s War on Poverty. america.cgtn.com China\'s war on poverty. Personal stories, extraordinary access and how China is eradicating poverty.

Paul Haeder (2020-05-18). Down and Out in Portland: Retired in Style in Waldport, OR. dissidentvoice.org The irony of this quote from the Dustin Hoffman movie, The Graduate, is not wasted on Duane Snider: — One word: plastics. That was Benjamin Braddock, just graduated from college, sitting in a swimming pool. Giving him advice on gaining the American dream, the neighbor\'s statement says it all. Today? Hedge funds? Flipping houses? Coronavirus …

Staff (2020-05-18). Headlines for May 18, 2020. democracynow.org U.S. Coronavirus Deaths on Track to Surpass 100,000 by June with Most States Partially Reopened , House Dems Probe Firing of State Dept. Watchdog, Pass $3 Trillion Stimulus Bill, Trump Names Ex-Pharma Exec and Army General to Lead Coronavirus Vaccine Effort, CDC Hits Back After WH Trade Adviser Criticism: CDC Director Is \"Appointed by President Trump\", Obama Slams Trump Admin Response to Crisis: \"A Lot of Them Aren\'t Even Pretending to Be in Charge.\", Belgian Medical Workers Stage Protests Against Gov\'t Response to Pandemic, Italy Opens Up Businesses, Starts Holding Public Masses as Part of \"Calculated Risk\", Ind…

Joe Emersberger (2020-05-18). Disgraceful yet illuminating reactions to the 2002 coup that briefly ousted Hugo Chavez: IACHR, CPJ and RSF. zcomm.org The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) The IACHR claimed in 2009 report on Venezuela that its reaction to the \"the attempted coup d\'état [of 2002] was immediate and decisive\" and that it \"warned that these acts constituted an interruption of the constitutional order as defined in the Democratic Charter.\" The evidence it offered

Andre Vltchek (2020-05-18). Iran Is Not A Victim, It Is One of The Most Influential and Strong-Minded Nations on Earth. iranian.com When facing mortal danger, its people unite, harden themselves and get ready to face invaders, no matter how threatening they might be. Iran is home to one of the oldest and deepest cultures in the world, and it\'s precisely this culture that helps Iranian people to survive the most frightening moments. And one such moment …

Zero Hedge (2020-05-18). US Headed For Another \'Tanker War\' With Iran — This Time Off Venezuela\'s Coast. iranian.com Iranian state TV has announced at least five least five Iranian-flagged tankers are transporting fuel to Venezuela through the Atlantic Ocean and plan to break the American blockade on the Latin American country. Iran has warned that any US attempt at intercepting its fuel tankers \"would have serious repercussions for the Trump administration ahead of the November elections.\" State-funded PressTV underscores that \"Iran is shipping …

Alan Macleod (2020-05-18). US Military Planners Advise Expanded Online Psychological Warfare against China. mintpressnews.com Just three years ago, Americans had a neutral view of China (and nine years ago it was strongly favorable). Today, the same polls show that 66 percent of Americans dislike the country.

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Injure Many, In Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Monday, Hebron city, and nearby towns of Beit Ummar and Yatta, in addition to the al-\'Arroub refugee camp, in southern West Bank, searched and ransacked many homes and abducted four Palestinians, in addition to wounding several others. Mohammad Awad, a local nonviolent media activist in Beit …

news.un (2020-05-18). Renewed trust and cooperation could finally \'unlock progress\' toward peace in Syria — UN envoy. news.un.org Renewed trust, confidence, and cooperation between international players and Syrians could finally \"unlock progress\", putting the country on a political path towards lasting peace, the UN Special Envoy for Syria told the Security Council on Monday.

graham (2020-05-18). Outspoken Palestinians — transformed into antisemites simply because they call for peace. truepublica.org.uk By Jonathan Cook: An attack on a prominent British-Palestinian doctor and academic, Ghada Karmi, by a self-styled \"antisemitism watchdog\" looks suspiciously like a new trend in anti-Palestinian bigotry and bullying dressed up as victimhood. Late last month, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), which claims to represent the interests of the UK\'s Jewish community, said it …

Project Censored (2020-05-18). Part II of the Kent-State Series. projectcensored.org 50 years have passed since Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. Four students were killed and nine wounded. On this Part…

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eight Palestinians, Injure Several Others, In West Bank. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, eight Palestinians, and injured many others, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the soldiers invaded many communities, stormed and ransacked homes, and attack protesters. In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded the home of Ahmad Nabeeh Abu ar-Rob, and violently searched …

Paul Dobson (2020-05-18). Venezuela Sees COVID-19 Surge as Returning Migrants Surpass 40,000. venezuelanalysis.com Authorities say that 75 percent of recent cases have been \"imported.\"

news.un (2020-05-18). Coronavirus impact on world\'s indigenous, goes well beyond health threat. news.un.org The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on the world\'s indigenous peoples that stretches well beyond the immediate threat to their health, the new UN independent expert on the rights of indigenous peoples said on Monday.

Esha Bhandari (2020-05-18). Coronavirus \'Immunity Passports\' are not the Answer. aclu.org As governments the world over seek ways to jumpstart economic activity, one proposal is a so-called \"immunity passport\" that would allow certain people who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies to return to work before others. We at the ACLU have serious concerns about the adoption of any such proposal, because of its potential to harm public health, incentivize economically-vulnerable people to risk their health by contracting COVID-19, exacerbate racial and economic disparities, and lead to a new health surveillance infrastructure that endangers privacy rights. , , An immunity passport system is fundamentall…

Slava Zilber (2020-05-18). Left-winger smashes the idea that establishment centrists offer a \'safe electoral choice\'. thecanary.co Anti-war left-winger Shahid Buttar is \"More of the same\" is not a reasonable option: | Buttar stressed that: | Sometimes, what we perceive as safe choices are, unfortunately, simply choices for more of the same. And I think if there\'s anything that the pandemic,…

news.un (2020-05-18). Covid-19 crisis closes 90 percent of museums globally, UNESCO plans for reopenings. news.un.org As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, museums have not been spared, the UN cultural agency said on Monday, International Museum Day, revealing that nearly 90 per cent of the treasured cultural institutions have had to close their doors, while almost 13 per cent are under serious threat of never reopening.

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Soldiers Assault A Palestinian Before Abducting Him In Jenin. imemc.org Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Monday at dawn, a young Palestinian man in Misilyah town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted him after searching and ransacking his home. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked the home of …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-18). Israeli Army Bulldozers Raze Palestinian Farm Land in Tulkarem. imemc.org In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli troops reportedly attacked Palestinian farm land, earlier on Monday, and army bulldozers began razing olive trees in an area estimated at four acres in size. Local Palestinian sources said that the farm land razed is located between the Kafa and Shoufa villages, …

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Israeli Colonists Chop Down 80 Olive Trees In Nablus, Bethlehem. imemc.org Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, a Palestinian olive orchard, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and cut more than 40 olive trees. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel\'s illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonists stormed an olive orchard …

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Israeli Colonists Hurl Stones At Teqoua\' Town Council. imemc.org Several Israeli colonists hurled stones, Sunday, at the building of the Local Municipal Council of Teqoua\' town, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Salem Abu Mfarreh, the mayor of Teqoua\', said the colonists stopped their car in front of the Local Council\'s building, before jumping …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-18). Israeli Military Court Extends Detention of a Palestinian Teen Boy. imemc.org The Israeli military court of Salem, near Jenin city in the West Bank, ordered on Monday, the extension of the detention of Palestinian teenager, Qasem Abu Baker, 17, from the Palestinian village of Y\'abad, south of Jenin city. The mother of Qasem, told media outlets that Monday\'s extension is the …

Raul Diego (2020-05-18). The Dem\'s $3 Trillion Dollar HEROES Act Can Not Brace Us for the Coming Shock. mintpressnews.com As the Trump show continues and each side of the political aisle takes aim at each other, the economy\'s freefall is quickly reaching catastrophic levels.

John Washington (2020-05-18). \'An Experience I Wouldn\'t Wish My Worst Enemy to Undergo\'. thenation.com \'An Experience I Wouldn\'t Wish My Worst Enemy to Undergo\'

Press TV (2020-05-18). US unable to block Iran gasoline shipments to Venezuela: Source. iranian.com A senior source within the Iranian petroleum industry says the United States would be practically unable to block shipments of gasoline from Iran to Venezuela at a time the two countries need to cooperate to mitigate the impacts of American sanctions on their energy sectors. Hamid Hosseini, who serves as the spokesman of the Iranian …

graham (2020-05-18). Covid Chaos: From lockdown to body bags. truepublica.org.uk By Rob Woodward — TruePublica: The national Covid strategy managed by the government is now in disarray. The mood in Tory HQ is migrating away from its beloved Brexit leader. The mainstream media are now causing confusion, the country is heading towards chaos. What is the general public supposed to believe when one mainstream newspaper …

graham (2020-05-18). Brexit — Tory treachery against UK farmers favours US agribusiness. truepublica.org.uk By Rob Woodward — TruePublica: At TruePublica we said this was going to happen all along — and this is just a taster for what is coming down the road. Brexit will not defend anything at all in Britain except deregulation. Brexit is not about the EU, it\'s about corporate power, profits and about America. …

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-18). Our Civilisational Quagmire — Looking Truth in the Eye. strategic-culture.org First, the bottom line: If you don\'t solve the biology, the economy won\'t recover. That is where we are now. A sealed-off, \'exceptionalist\' mindset has brought about — surprise; surprise — an exceptionalist outcome. We have both a deluge of avoidable deaths, and clearly, a staggering amount of possibly avoidable economic damage (albeit some of which was It is the worst of both worlds. Initially, dilatory in mitigating the pandemic for fear of damaging the e…

The Canary (2020-05-18). EU calls for independent probe of the WHO\'s pandemic response. thecanary.co The European Union and other countries have called for an independent evaluation of the World Health Organisation\'s (WHO) response to the coronavirus pandemic \"to review experience gained and lessons learned\". | The resolution has the support of more than half of the WHO\'s member countries and will be discussed this week at the decision-making body of the UN health agency, being held virtually this year. | The proposal is intended to initiate \"a stepwise process of impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation\" of the WHO\'s efforts to coordinate the international response to Covid-19, including the function…

The Canary (2020-05-18). Hiscox faces legal action from companies pursuing coronavirus payouts. thecanary.co A group of angry Hiscox policyholders have been given the go-ahead to launch legal action against the insurance giant. | The Hiscox Action Group — which was set up by policyholders frustrated by Hiscox\'s decision to exclude coronavirus disruption from its business interruption policies — said it intends to launch a claim in the coming days. | Mishcon de Reya, the city law firm leading the case, says that over 400 policyholders have signed up with almost £40 million in claims against the insurer. | The law firm is expected to file an \"expedited arbitration claim\" and has advised members of the gr…

imperial.ac.uk (2020-05-18). Imperial donate excess food to local food banks and community projects. imperial.ac.uk Imperial\'s Catering team have donated excess food and drink to support those in need during COVID-19.

imperial.ac.uk (2020-05-18). MSc virologists explore infections and cell biology in new virtual laboratory. imperial.ac.uk As the College continues remote learning, MSc Molecular Biology & Pathology of Viruses students are trialling remote research in a \'virtual lab\'.

Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz (2020-05-17). Venezuela: Guaido\'s Leadership in Question Following Failed Coup Attempt. venezuelanalysis.com A letter from Silvercorp\'s lawyers demanding payment has cast doubt on Guaido\'s denials of involvement in a recent paramilitary operation.

Jim Naureckas (2020-05-17). Grading the States\' Coronavirus Control. fair.org I recently wrote a Twitter thread ( The good idea, which appears on the Times\' \"Coronavirus in the US\"

RT (2020-05-17). DHS & FBI fear more attacks on 5G infrastructure fueled by Covid-19 conspiracies. rt.com The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies are worried that conspiracy theories, bizarrely linking the Covid-19 pandemic to the 5G technology rollout, could inspire more vandalism and violence in the US. | The DHS, FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center issued a joint warning to US law enforcement officials about the growing threat this week, while a separate DHS intelligence report,

Joe Emersberger (2020-05-17). Attempts to whitewash the military coup of April 2002 in Venezuela. zcomm.org Given the overwhelming support opposition voices have been given in western media since Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1998, it is unsurprising that some would have had the audacity to attempt at least a partial whitewash of what the opposition and its foreign allies did in April of 2002. I\'ll address some of those

Zero Hedge (2020-05-17). Chinese Ambassador To Israel Found Dead, Sparking Avalanche Of Rumors Amid Tensions. iranian.com China\'s Ambassador to Israel has been found dead inside his home near Tel Aviv Sunday morning, Israel\'s Foreign Ministry has confirmed. 57-year old ambassador Du Wei had only assumed his post in February 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, due to which he entered a two week mandatory self-quarantine upon his arrival. He\'d previously been China\'s envoy to …

Fight Back (2020-05-17). Boisterous Nakba Day car rally rolls through Minneapolis suburb. fightbacknews.org Columbia Heights, MN – Just outside city limits from Northeast Minneapolis, Central Avenue was awash with Palestine flags during Friday rush hour as Palestinian-Americans and solidarity activists commemorated Al-Nakba. Nakba Day, held each year on May 15, remembers the 1948 ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of indigenous Palestinians from their national homeland by Zionist settlers. Around 60 cars and dozens of families drove in a long caravan through the heavily Arab-American neighborhood, with chants of \"From the river to the sea…\" echoing for blocks. The protest was one of many actions that happened…

news.un (2020-05-17). AU and UN appeal for \'stable and peaceful environment\' for Burundi elections. news.un.org Ahead of presidential and local elections in Burundi on Wednesday, the African Union (AU) Commission and the United Nations (UN) urged the authorities to provide a safe and secure environment for citizens to cast their votes.

Fight Back (2020-05-17). 1000 rally in Brunswick, Georgia demanding justice for Ahmaud Arbery. fightbacknews.org Brunswick, GA — Around 1000 people took to the streets of Brunswick, Georgia, May 16, to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, the young African American man murdered in late February by the racist vigilantes Gregory and Travis McMichael. Organized by a coalition of many organizations, protesters also demanded the resignation of State Attorneys Jackie Johnson and George Barnhill, both prosecutors who originally declined to press charges against the McMichaels for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

Jean-Jacques Tuech, Lilian Schwarz (2020-05-17). [Letter] Can we operate our patients without fear during the period of COVID-19 infection? thelancet.com We read the paper by Shaoquin LEI and colleagues [1] with great interest. The authors reported 34 patients in whom the infection was revealed after surgery was performed. In this group of patients 15 (44.1%) needed ICU care and 7 (20.5%) died. This retrospective cohort study is the first one to describe the outcome of operative patients with SARS-Cov-2 infection.

Cristina Pérez-Cameo, Juan Marín-Lahoz (2020-05-17). [Commentary] Serosurveys and convalescent plasma in COVID-19. thelancet.com The current pandemic is not only overwhelming the health systems of the affected countries but also is killing thousands of other ways healthy adults. Convalescent plasma has been proposed [1] and approved to treat COVID-19 based on the experience acquired treating other viral diseases such as influenza, Ebola, and SARS [2]. It is considered a safe treatment (at least its side effects and contraindications are well known) and it has proven to be efficacious in several viral infections for more than a century.

Gary L Ross (2020-05-17). [Letter] Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19 infection. What are the implications for the commencement of elective surgery? thelancet.com …

Paulina Cecula, Sir David Behan, Mahiben Maruthappu (2020-05-17). [Commentary] COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities in the care sector. thelancet.com Covid-19 has spread around the world at a tremendous pace. On April the 12th, the total number of cases in the UK reached 84,279 including 10,612 deaths [1]. The UK Government introduced measures to reduce the spread of disease and the NHS is operating at full capacity to manage the demand. Meanwhile, more than 2000 care homes in England reported Covid-19 cases, which are underrepresented in national statistics [2]. Charities are calling for urgent action to support older people and the care sector.

Amine Souadka, Hajar Essangri, Amine Benkabbou, Laila Amrani, Mohammed Anass Majbar (2020-05-17). [Letter] COVID-19 and Healthcare worker\'s families: behind the scenes of frontline response. thelancet.com During the COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare professionals are exposed to a high-risk of infection and mental health problems [1], but also fear of contagion and spreading the virus to their families [2]. In fact, considering them as individuals implies looking beyond their function as frontline responders and taking into account their societal role as parents, spouses and offspring.

Alison P. Galvani, Alyssa S. Parpia, Abhishek Pandey, Charlotte Zimmer, James G. Kahn, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick (2020-05-17). [Commentary] The imperative for universal healthcare to curtail the COVID-19 outbreak in the USA. thelancet.com The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States is growing steeply and spreading widely. As of March 26, national incidence surpassed every other country, and as of April 28 has reported over a million cases. The COVID-19 crisis is exposing the systemic frailties in our healthcare system. More than 78 million people in America do not have access to adequate health insurance [1]. Given that health insurance in the US is typically provided by employers, millions more are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage as unemployment surges.

Tasnim News (2020-05-17). Google Play Removes Iranian App Used against Coronavirus. iranian.com The anti-Iran sanctions imposed by the \"Wild West\" have forced Google to remove Iranian mobile application \'Mask\', developed to tackle the novel coronavirus and warn people to avoid high-risk areas, from its Play Store, a health official said. Iranian Health Ministry spokesperson Kianoosh Jahanpoor said in a post on his Twitter account that the homegrown …

The Lancet (2020-05-16). [Editorial] Reviving the US CDC. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in the USA with 1 ∑3 million cases and an estimated death toll of 80‚Äà684 as of May 12. States that were initially the hardest hit, such as New York and New Jersey, have decelerated the rate of infections and deaths after the implementation of 2 months of lockdown. However, the emergence of new outbreaks in Minnesota, where the stay-at-home order is set to lift in mid-May, and Iowa, which did not enact any restrictions on movement or commerce, has prompted pointed new questions about the inconsistent and incoherent national response to the COVID-19…

Richard Horton (2020-05-16). [Comment] Offline: Don\'t let COVID-19 divert us completely. thelancet.com Dr Robert Spencer, a trustee of Dr Edward Jenner\'s House, Garden and Museum in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, wrote to me last week on the 40th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox (May 8). He was polite but disappointed: \"On this day in 1980 the WHO announced the eradication of smallpox from the world. This infection, which probably caused more deaths than any other disease, was finally condemned to the history books. Sorry to see you had no space in this week\'s edition of The Lancet to commemorate this milestone, especially at a time of COVID-19 pandemic.\" Dr Spencer was right to admonish me.

news.un (2020-05-16). Cultivating a taste for traditional crops in Hawaii. news.un.org Hundreds of millions of people go hungry around the world, and there are fears the COVID-19 pandemic could make matters worse. In Hawaii, researchers think that bringing back overlooked, traditional crops, could help feed many vulnerable people. As part of an ongoing series focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals and ahead of International Day of Biodiversity marked annually on 22 May, UN News travelled to Hawaii with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to see how researchers are trying to cultivate a taste for indigenous crops.

Derrick Broze (2020-05-16). Trump Appoints Big Pharma Exec Connected to Bill Gates to Head Vaccine Developments. thelastamericanvagabond.com On Friday, Donald Trump announced his appointment of Moncef Slaoui, a former executive with vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, to lead \"Operation Warp Speed\", Trump\'s plan to fast track the development of vaccines for COVID-19. Slaoui will serve in a volunteer position, assisted by Army Gen. Gustave Perna, the commander of United States Army Materiel Command. According …

Derrick Broze (2020-05-16). This U.S. State Has Already Established Legal Means for Mandatory Vaccinations. thelastamericanvagabond.com While the U.S. government and global health \"authorities\" debate how quickly they can roll out Contact Tracing surveillance programs and fast track vaccines, Americans are left wondering and debating over whether the vaccinations programs for COVID-19 might end up being mandatory. It is true that Donald Trump has acknowledged that, \"We are looking for a …

Project Censored (2020-05-16). Episode 84 — The History of 420 and Teaching in Quarantine with Ben Boyington (Vice President of ACME). projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2020-05-15). Russia makes a botch of its Syrian alliance. iranian.com Russia\'s relationships with its client states have never been easy. Of course, managing client states is always a complicated exercise. The Kremlin\'s cupboard is full of skeletons — Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), Cuba (1962), Afghanistan (1980), Ukraine (2014) and so on. What complicates Russia\'s relationship with Syria is that two strong-willed, highly self-opinionated leaders are also …

Max Blumenthal (2020-05-15). \'The American friends\': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson\'s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange. thegrayzone.com An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson\'s Las Vegas Sands played in…

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-15). 'Boogaloo Boy' Arrested in Texas, Charged With Plotting To Murder Cops on Facebook Live. splcenter.org \"Boogaloo Boys\" — individuals associated with an online community characterized by calls for civil strife and ownership of firearms and tactical gear — have advocated for an armed revolution online and at public rallies for months. On April 11, one self-proclaimed \"Boogaloo Boy\" allegedly used Facebook Live to show himself attempting to murder police.

ACLU (2020-05-15). DeRay McKesson on the Threat to Protesters\' Rights. aclu.org Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, protests have erupted across the country. Some are related to the virus: Protestors in Ohio and Michigan took to the streets and state capitols to call for an end to their governors\' stay-at-home orders. Others are calling out an ongoing injustice: the killing, often at the hands of the state, of Black Americans. Now, the rights of participants in protests across the spectrum could be at stake unless the Supreme Court weighs in on an important decision., , In this episode of At Liberty, we speak with DeRay McKesson, an activist at the center of an important ACLU…

Staff (2020-05-15). Democracy At Stake: \"Faithless Electors\" SCOTUS Case Tests If Electoral College Members Can Go Rogue. democracynow.org The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that could shape the outcome of future presidential elections. The question at hand was whether Electoral College members can \"go rogue\" and support candidates who did not win the state\'s popular vote. In 2016, one of Colorado\'s nine electors, Michael Baca, attempted to cast his Electoral College ballot for Republican John Kasich instead of Democrat Hillary Clinton. The Colorado secretary of state at the time — a Republican — removed Baca as an elector. Colorado is one of 31 other states that has a law requiring presidential electors to vote for…

CounterSpin (2020-05-15). Ari Berman on Voter Suppression and Coronavirus. fair.org Media…

Janine Jackson (2020-05-15). Foreign Policy Sees \'Repression\' in Vietnam\'s Fight Against Coronavirus – In the US, government may surveill you, but at least it doesn't protect your health. fair.org Foreign Policy ( A recent piece in Foreign Policy (

Staff (2020-05-15). Climate Crisis: KXL Ruling, Unity Task Force, California Pollution, and TRNN\'s New Climate Reporter. therealnews.com Climate activists get a big court win on Keystone XL as the Biden and Sanders camps unite. California has delayed air pollution rules at the behest of industry during COVID-19 as polluting oil tankers line its coast.

Staff (2020-05-15). The Secretive Police Commission The Justice Department Doesn\'t Want You To Notice. therealnews.com PAR learns about life under lockdown with COVID-19 from a guest just released from 10 months of incarceration, and examines the secretive police commission created by Attorney General Barr.

Staff (2020-05-15). HEROES Act Includes Utility Shutoff Ban, $4 Billion For Broadband Access. therealnews.com Republicans oppose the HEROES Act provision to expand broadband, but students and educators say lack of internet access is a major roadblock to learning in low income and rural communities.

Raul Diego (2020-05-15). Massachusetts Contact Tracing Program Handed to Clinton-Linked NGO with Questionable Past. mintpressnews.com A new contact tracing program was recently unveiled in Massachusetts in partnership with Partners in Health, an NGO with links to US regime change operations, big pharma and the Clinton Foundation.

Staff (2020-05-15). \"Can Democracy Survive the Pandemic?\": Election Hangs in the Balance as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting. democracynow.org The coronavirus pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to the November presidential election, as President Trump and the GOP capitalize on the moment to attack voting rights. We speak with Emily Bazelon, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, whose new cover story examines the bureaucratic and political challenges of mobilizing widespread vote-by-mail by November. We also speak with Jena Griswold, secretary of state of Colorado, which already has universal vote-by-mail and the second-highest voter turnout in the country.

Staff (2020-05-15). \"The Wuhan of the Americas\": U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala. democracynow.org The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says \"U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are \'unconscionable,\'\" and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-15). The Heat: China-U.S. tensions. america.cgtn.com U.S. President Donald Trump renews his attacks against China, as tensions flare between the two economic powers.

Staff (2020-05-15). Headlines for May 15, 2020. democracynow.org Coronavirus Whistleblower Says U.S. Unprepared for Second Wave of Infections, The Lancet Assails Trump\'s \"Inconsistent and Incoherent\" COVID-19 Response, Trump Says Mass Coronavirus Testing May Be \"Overrated\", FDA Warns of Inaccurate Results from Rapid Coronavirus Test Used by White House | , Michigan Cancels Legislative Session as Armed Protesters Gather at State Capitol, California to Slash Billions from State Budget as Coronavirus Hammers Tax Revenues, Amazon to End $2-an-Hour Hazard Pay as CEO Jeff Bezos Gains $30 Billion During Pandemic, New York Police Tackle and Arrest Mother for Allegedly Wearing a Mask I…

Alan Macleod (2020-05-15). Study: Coronavirus Has Been a Massive Boon for America\'s Billionaires. mintpressnews.com A new study found that in the past eight weeks alone, the country\'s super wealthy have added a further $368.8 billion to their already enormous fortunes.

Alan Macleod (2020-05-15). As US Reels From COVID-19, Trump Turns to Sanctions, War Making and Threats. mintpressnews.com The Trump admin has decisively chosen war over peace and conflict over cooperation. Yet it appears less able than ever to coerce the world into following its lead.

Fight Back (2020-05-15). Tampa students demand COVID-19 relief for undocumented students. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On May 14, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a car protest at the University of South Florida (USF) to demand COVID-19 relief funds for undocumented students. USF has offered no financial help for undocumented students during the pandemic and the only COVID-19 aid for students is the CARES Act Fund, for which DACA and undocumented students are ineligible. | Students and SDS members parked near the USF president\'s mansion on campus for socially-distanced speeches and chants demanding that USF provide relief for undocumented students. Simon Rowe, a member of SDS stated, \"DACA stude…

news.un (2020-05-15). FROM THE FIELD: Venezuelan refugee counsellor hears \'pain, anger and frustration\'. news.un.org A Venezuelan psychologist who moved to Peru as a refugee, has been telling the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, about the \"pain, anger and frustration\" that has been expressed by fellow displaced and local people he has counselled.

news.un (2020-05-15). Philippines typhoon recovery, complicated by coronavirus concerns. news.un.org As Typhoon Vongfong slammed the Philippines on Thursday, tens of thousands of people fled to cramped shelters, raising fears that without proper safety precautions in place, evacuation centres could become a hotbed of coronavirus infection, the UN emergency humanitarian relief agency (OCHA) said on Friday.

news.un (2020-05-15). Coronavirus lockdowns in Central America, exploited by criminal gangs. news.un.org Chronic violence, insecurity and now COVID-related restrictions have put tens of thousands of Central Americans at risk of increased hardship and even death, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.

Trudy Hess (2020-05-15). Our Revolution Los Angeles Leaves Democratic Party. peoplesparty.org Our Revolution Los Angeles\' overwhelming vote to leave the Democratic Party and join the Movement for a People\'s Party on Monday has ignited a fierce debate in the progressive movement over whether Bernie supporters should continue trying to reform the Democratic Party or form the major new party that the majority of Americans want.

Raul Diego (2020-05-15). Trump Unveils Plan That Would See Big Pharma Reap Massive Profits from COVID-19 Vaccine. mintpressnews.com President Trump has revealed a plan to mobilize the US military to deliver mass vaccinations across the country, coupled with Operation Warp Speed, a \"Manhattan project-style\" race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine.

Fight Back (2020-05-15). UPS Teamsters plan call-in to demand hazard pay. fightbacknews.org Salt Lake City, UT – UPS Teamsters are working extremely long hours in hazardous conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting themselves and their families at risk with no hazard pay. UPS was late to provide sufficient personal protective equipment for workers and only did so after workers demanded it. Still, many areas lack the appropriate PPE to stay safe at work. The Teamsters union has not put hazard pay on the negotiating table for UPS Teamsters; workers are organizing on the shop floor to win their demand. UPS recently announced their quarterly profits at almost $1 billion. | \"UPS is making hundreds of…

Fight Back (2020-05-15). Chicagoland area Arabs and Muslims continue to fight racist, incompetent, township board during pandemic. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On May 11, over 30 Arab and Muslim community members and their allies joined a Palos Township online meeting to continue demanding the resignation of the racist trustee, Sharon Brannigan. | Since the global pandemic forced the state of Illinois and its functions to be moved to digital forms, the Palos Township started to hold its monthly general meetings via Zoom. | The #ResignBrannigan coalition, which has been demanding the resignation of Brannigan since July of 2017, refused to let the quarantine get in the way of their campaign and took the fight to Zoom. | The meeting, like usual, became heated…

Mike Ervin (2020-05-15). The Sound and Fury of \'America Strong\'. progressive.org What\'s the best way to honor medical professionals during a pandemic? Why, with a public display of militarism, of course!

news.un (2020-05-15). COVID-19 shows crucial role of the UN, says next General Assembly President. news.un.org The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the \'crucial role\' of the UN and its agencies, according to the veteran Turkish diplomat and parliamentarian who, as the only candidate for the top job, is slated to lead the historic 75th session of the General Assembly which begins in September.

news.un (2020-05-15). Millions of migrants across Russia, Central Asia, \'teetering on the brink\', as UN launches urgent appeal. news.un.org The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched an urgent $7 million appeal on Thursday, to ease the impact of COVID-19 on migrant communities in five Central Asian countries and the Russian Federation, where the pandemic is pushing a growing number of migrant workers into poverty.

Fight Back (2020-05-15). Almost 3 million more applied for Unemployment Insurance last week. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Thursday, May 14, the Labor Department reported more bad news, saying that almost 3 million people applied for unemployment insurance in the previous week ending May 9. This means that over the last eight weeks more than 36 million people applied after losing jobs and income. Another 3.5 million are collecting the federal government\'s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, which goes to the self-employed. This brings the total number of recently unemployed people to about 40 million. | This report was worse than mainstream economists expected, with a drop of only 200,000 from the week before,…

news.un (2020-05-15). Child vaccinations down in DR Congo, and COVID-19 is not helping: UNICEF. news.un.org Fewer children are getting vaccinated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the COVID-19 pandemic is almost certainly going to make matters worse, the United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) says. If the trend continues, it could trigger a resurgence in deadly childhood diseases such as polio, chickenpox, measles, yellow fever, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and meningitis.

Raul Diego (2020-05-15). Head of the Hydra: The Rise of Robert Kadlec. mintpressnews.com WASHINGTON DC (

Raul Diego (2020-05-15). As Corporations Adapt to a COVID-19 Economy, the Working-Class Prepares for a Paradigm Shift. mintpressnews.com As social distancing measures persist across the country, corporations are setting in a \"new normal\" where most people are safely squirreled away in their homes, with paradigm-shifting implications for the working classes.

Joe Amon (2020-05-15). Plan Now for Vaccination Decisions to Come. progressive.org Who should be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available?

news.un (2020-05-15). Support stepped up for Rohingya camps as first COVID-19 infections are confirmed. news.un.org After confirmation that the first cases of COVID-19 infection have been identified in a vast and overcrowded refugee camp in Bangladesh, UN humanitarians on Friday announced additional measures and appealed for funds to prevent the disease from spreading.

Bill Lueders (2020-05-15). Still in the Dark in Wisconsin. progressive.org Health officials don\'t have an up-to-date count of people who got COVID-19 after attending a \'large gathering.\'

Sputnik News (2020-05-15). Iranian Warns US Acts Over Venezuela Fuel Shipments Will Not \'Go Without Repercussion\'. iranian.com An Iranian news agency has warned the US against taking action against several Iranian-flagged tankers transporting fuel to Venezuela, as Washington has threatened. \"If the United States, just like pirates, intends to create insecurity on international waterways, it would be taking a dangerous risk and that will certainly not go without repercussion,\" Iran\'s Nour News …

Tasnim News (2020-05-15). INSTEX Transactions Unsatisfactory: Iranian Deputy FM. iranian.com Iran\'s deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy expressed dissatisfaction with the volume of transactions that Tehran has been able to carry via a financial mechanism the EU has devised for trade with the Islamic Republic, known as INSTEX. In an interview with IRIB, Gholam Reza Ansari said although the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges …

Ruth Conniff (2020-05-14). Hell No, You Can\'t be Safer at Home. progressive.org Wisconsin Supreme Court, in act of \'blatant . . . judicial activism,\' strikes down state rules meant to curb spread of COVID-19.

Staff (2020-05-14). Israel Strips Financial Aid From Palestinian Prisoners, Leaving Them To Face COVID-19 Alone. therealnews.com Calls and visits are denied to many of Israel\'s Palestinian prisoners, leaving their fate in the pandemic unknown.

Walter Smolarek (2020-05-14). Why China is not the aggressor. liberationnews.org The war hawks want you to believe that China is bullying and threatening the United States. Don\'t fall for it

Kate Ruane (2020-05-14). In Fear of Falling Behind and Privacy Invasions, Students Demand Action on Remote Learning. aclu.org Mia\'s high school peers are completing class assignments from their school parking lot because they, like many families in their rural Maryland community, lack access to internet at home. Delina, a high school junior from Arizona, has to wait until all her younger siblings finish their schoolwork using the one computer at home before she can use it to start hers. One student from New Jersey fears that the lack of privacy protections for students using remote learning technology puts their mom at increased risk of deportation. , , This is the reality of education in America during the COVID-19 crisis, accordin…

Staff (2020-05-14). Who\'s Fighting The War Against Cash? therealnews.com Mastercard, Visa, and Bill Gates are all pushing for polices to make it harder to use cash, hoping to keep closer tabs on the population through the trail of electronic transactions.

Patricia Gorky (2020-05-14). Bay Area car caravan: Stop state executions by COVID-19! liberationnews.org More than 80 cars drove around San Quentin prison in Marin County, California on Sat. May .

pip.hinman (2020-05-14). Three essential measures to make workplaces COVID-19 safe. greenleft.org.au

pip.hinman (2020-05-14). Socialist Alliance withdraws from Victorian Socialists. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2020-05-14). Coronavirus Pandemic Prompts Global Mental Health Crisis as Millions Feel Alone, Anxious & Depressed. democracynow.org Is the coronavirus pandemic generating a mental illness crisis? Millions face isolation, poverty and anxiety. We speak with psychology professor and author Andrew Solomon, as the United Nations calls on governments to put mental health \"front and center\" in their response to the crisis.

Staff (2020-05-14). When Patients Die Alone, How Do Families and Health Workers Cope, Relieve Suffering? democracynow.org We look at the tremendous emotional toll the coronavirus is taking on families when loved ones are forced to battle COVID alone in hospitals or at home, with Dr. Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and a professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She helped start a 24-hour palliative care hotline for COVID-19 patients in New York City that served nearly 900 people in a four-week period.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-14). The Heat: Brazil now ranks sixth in global pandemic infections. america.cgtn.com Brazil records its deadliest day yet from the coronavirus.

Staff (2020-05-14). Headlines for May 14, 2020. democracynow.org World Health Organization Says Novel Coronavirus \"May Never Go Away\", Whistleblower Warns U.S. Faces \"Darkest Winter\" Without Urgent Action on COVID-19, Trump Calls Dr. Anthony Fauci\'s Warning on COVID-19 and Schools \"Not an Acceptable Answer\", Wisconsin Stay-at-Home Orders Struck Down, Threatening New Wave of COVID-19 Deaths, Fed Reserve Chair Warns of Long Recession as Unemployment Claims Hit 36 Million, Trump Calls Democrats\' Coronavirus Relief Bill \"Dead on Arrival\", Native Americans Make Up Half of New Mexico Coronavirus Deaths; New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike, China to Test 11 Million Wuhan Residents…

Zero Hedge (2020-05-14). \"My Job Is To Make Syria A Quagmire For The Russians\": CIA Doctrine Made Official Policy. iranian.com Like with the disastrous Iraq quagmire years before the US war machine came to Syria under Obama, Washington\'s rationale and justification for occupying the Syrian Arab Republic has shifted and changed drastically multiple times over. When ultimately what started as US covert regime change efforts targeting Assad failed (based ostensibly in \"protecting civilians\"), the official mission then …

Trudy Hess (2020-05-14). ideas that are lying around … peoplesparty.org | LYING AROUND … | During a crisis, when people are disoriented, afraid and focused on survival, it is much easier to push through horrific policies that will punish working and poor people with austerity, further privatize our commons, and transfer wealth from the bottom to the top. | But Friedman\'s legacy didn\'t end with his own work. We see the Shock Doctrine playbook everywhere in US policy. | We saw it in the \"rebuilding\" of Iraq, the responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Maria, and of course,…

Michelle Chen (2020-05-14). Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns. progressive.org Advocates say the extreme restrictions on movement are punitive and dangerous.

Dean Baker (2020-05-14). Corruption and the Pandemic Bailout. cepr.net (This piece was originally posted on my Patreon page.) Neil Irwin had an interesting New York Times piece on how concerns about moral hazard in the bailout may damage the recovery. The gist of the article is that the fear that bad actors will be wrongly rewarded will prevent us from spending enough money to …

Jeff Abbott (2020-05-14). The Other Americans: Trump is Spreading the Virus. progressive.org Deportations of migrants are exacerbating already weakened health care systems in Latin America.

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-14). US Should Release Occupational Data in COVID-19 Death Reports. cepr.net Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that UK women working in care occupations are two times as likely to die from COVID-19 as women in professional and technical occupations. In addition, UK men in low-paid, manual jobs are four times as likely to die from the virus as men in professional and technical jobs. The …

news.un (2020-05-14). Presidents and prime ministers lead call for \'people\'s vaccine\', free to all. news.un.org UNAIDS, the UN agency fighting against the deadly HIV/AIDS virus, has initiated a petition from global leaders requesting that when a successful COVID-19 vaccine is developed, it be made available free of charge to all.

news.un (2020-05-14). Workers and COVID-19: Access to healthcare, now \'a matter of life and death\'. news.un.org The spread of COVID-19 in developing countries has exposed gaps in social protection coverage which could compromise recovery plans, expose millions of people to poverty and affect global readiness to cope with similar crises, according to two policy briefs issued Thursday by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-14). AI-Powered Medical \"Pre-Crime\" Is Officially Here To \"Fight COVID-19\" thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/13/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Jennesa Calvo-Friedman (2020-05-14). DeVos is Rolling Back Protections for Sexual Harassment and Assault Survivors in Schools. We\'re Suing to Put a Stop to It. aclu.org By the time a student graduates from college — particularly if they are a woman, LGBTQ, a person of color, or have a disability — the odds are high that they have experienced sexual harassment and assault.

RFE (2020-05-14). Iran Receives Another Cargo Of Medical Supplies From Germany. iranian.com An official of the Iranian Customs Organization on Thursday confirmed that a consignment of medical equipment purchased from Germany worth around 749,000 euros (about $800,000) has been delivered to Iran. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency, the Director-General of Customs Office Sadeq Namdar at the Turkish border said the equipment delivered from Germany consists …

Norman Solomon (2020-05-13). Bernie\'s Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused with Surrender. zcomm.org Photo by StoopDown/Shutterstock.com Politics is ultimately about life and death, as the current pandemic horrors make clear. Policies that can seem abstract not only routinely harm quality of life; they also kill. Both Bernie Sanders campaigns for president have brought a principled seriousness to the national discourse that no other candidate has come near

Janine Jackson (2020-05-13). \'Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics\' – CounterSpin interview with Ricardo Salvador on the coronavirus food crisis. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists\' Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the Media…

Staff (2020-05-13). Naomi Klein: Healthcare Industry Sees \"Potential Bonanza\" of Profits in COVID-19 Crisis. democracynow.org As the top infectious disease expert testifies to the Senate that needless death and suffering could result from reopening too quickly, author and journalist Naomi Klein says a \"pandemic shock doctrine\" is beginning to emerge. \"The fact that a large sector of the economy, the healthcare industry, sees a potential bonanza here … that\'s a win for them.\"

Staff (2020-05-13). Screen New Deal: Naomi Klein on How Companies Like Google Plan to Profit in High-Tech COVID Dystopia. democracynow.org In her new report for The Intercept on the \"Screen New Deal,\" Naomi Klein looks at how the coronavirus pandemic is more high-tech than previous disasters — and how the future we\'re being rushed into could transform our lives into a \"living laboratory for a permanent — and highly profitable — no-touch future.\" She joins us to discuss what she found, and says, \"I think we\'re going to see very incomplete so-called solutions … that massively benefit private tech interests.\"

Staff (2020-05-13). Headlines for May 13, 2020. democracynow.org Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns Senators Reopening Too Soon Will Cause \"Suffering and Death\", House Democratic Leaders Unveil New $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package, Tesla CEO Elon Musk Defies Lockdown Order, Reopens California Auto Plant, L.A. Extends Lockdown for 3 Months as Cal State Cancels In-Person Fall Classes, CDC Estimates 5,000+ More New York City Coronavirus Deaths Than Officially Reported, Progressive Lawmakers Call on World Bank, IMF to Cancel Poor Countries\' Debts, Brazil Records Its Highest Daily COVID-19 Death Toll, London Transit Worker Dies After Man Claiming to Have COVID-19 Spits on Her, Aide to R…

Ricardo Vaz (2020-05-13). [UPDATED] Venezuelan Oil Sector Continues Slump Amid Pandemic, US Sanctions. venezuelanalysis.com The Maduro government is working to repair refineries with Chinese and Iranian assistance to tackle fuel shortages.

Denijal Jegiƒá (2020-05-13). In banning Hezbollah, Germany responds to far-right, U.S. and Israeli pressure — not any security threat. thegrayzone.com Hezbollah has never been charged with any crimes in Germany nor does it have an official presence in the country….

Kathy Kelly (2020-05-13). Vigil for Peace in Yemen: A New Norm. zcomm.org U.S. national security leaders and stakeholders in war, as they shelter in place, have an extraordinary opportunity to set a new norm and link with the vigil for Peace in Yemen…

Danica Jorden (2020-05-13). ICE Eases Threat but \"Essential\" Immigrant Farmworkers Struggle to Feed Themselves During Coronavirus. zcomm.org Immigrant farm workers have long been essential to the U.S. But they have never been recognized, respected or properly rewarded for their labor…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2020-05-13). Can Democracy Survive the Coronavirus? zcomm.org The coronavirus is not just a threat to our personal and collective health; it is a threat to our democratic institutions as well. We need to protect lives and democracies…

Edward Hunt (2020-05-13). U.S. Officials Chart a Course for Greenland\'s Future. progressive.org Trump\'s talk of buying the island fits a broader pattern of efforts to keep the island under U.S. influence.

Sarah Lahm (2020-05-13). Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools. progressive.org For education \"disruptors\" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn\'t a crisis—it\'s an opportunity.

Brian Terrell (2020-05-13). COVID-19 and the Wasting Disease of Normalcy. zcomm.org The wasting disease of normalcy is the far greater existential threat and our survival requires that we meet it with at least the same courage, generosity and ingenuity…

Jack Rasmus (2020-05-13). Market \"Solutions\" to the Covid-19 Crisis. zcomm.org The Fed has opened a free money spigot to investors, bankers, and to big business of all types, and has simply declared \"come on in and take it.\" And if the $6 trillion to date isn\'t enough, we\'ll provide more…

Jonathan Cook (2020-05-13). The bigger picture is hiding behind a virus. zcomm.org If only we could redirect our gaze, if we could seize back control of our attention for a moment, we might understand that we are being plagued not just by a virus but by our fear, our hate, our hunger, our selfishness…

Tehran Times (2020-05-13). Evidence suggests prehistorical Iranians migrated to Americas. iranian.com Some prehistorical residents of the Iranian plateau migrated to the Americas, an Iranian archaeologist and researcher says based on evidence from similarities between the petroglyphs and cave painting symbols in central Iran and the ones found in the Americas. \"After years of exploring ancient paintings inside Iran\'s caves and mountains and other parts of the …

Nina Eichacker (2020-05-12). Learning All the Wrong Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis – NYT should not fixate on debt as governments respond to the coronavirus pandemic. fair.org I recently wrote a piece for FAIR (

Staff (2020-05-12). Stir Crazy! Episode #32: Don\'t Make Us Regret This! therealnews.com On today\'s show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, co-host of \"By Any Means Necessary\" Jacqueline Luqman, and TRNN managing editor Marc Steiner. Hosted by Kim Brown.

Staff (2020-05-12). Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy The Earth. therealnews.com Trump\'s former coal lobbyist EPA administrator is letting oil, gas, and coal take advantage of the global pandemic.

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-12). Etazini vle depà≤te yon gwo asasen an Ayiti. cepr.net ayiboPost Al gade nan atik sou sit orijinal la An Anglè Pandan pandemi COVID-19 la, prèske tout fwontyè ak ayewopà≤ nan mond lan fèmen men avyon Imigrasyon leta Ameriken (ICE) kontinye vole. Chak 2 a 3 semèn, yon và≤l depà≤tasyon konpayi Swift Air, LLC opere, ateri nan ayewopà≤ Pà≤toprens. Apre youn nan và≤l sa yo …

Paul Kawika Martin (2020-05-12). Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending. peaceaction.org ‚òéÔ∏èüó£Call your Reps. to ‚úÇ Pentagon spending Over the last few weeks, we\'ve alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last three years alone — during a time of relative peace — we have already increased annual Pentagon spending by more than …

Staff (2020-05-12). \"Losing the Fabric of the City\": COVID-19 Took Chicago Black Lives First & Exposed Structural Racism. democracynow.org We look at the coronavirus pandemic\'s disproportionate toll on African Americans through the story of Chicago\'s first 100 recorded deaths. A report by ProPublica found that 70 of the first 100 people to die were African American. Black people account for 30% of Chicago\'s population and 72% of COVID-19 deaths. We speak with ProPublica reporter Adriana Gallardo, who contributed to the report \"COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn\'t Have To.\" She says the story paints a picture of \"sophisticated structural racism\" in Chicago.

Staff (2020-05-12). Los New Yorkers: Essential, Underprotected Undocumented Immigrants Struggle to Survive in Epicenter. democracynow.org As the coronavirus continues to devastate New York City communities, we hear the voices of undocumented New Yorkers about how they are surviving the pandemic. Their stories are told in a new ProPublica story headlined \"Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic\'s Epicenter.\" We speak with one of the story\'s reporters, Adriana Gallardo.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-12). The Heat: Countries face economic fallout from COVID-19. america.cgtn.com In the United States the latest government figures show 20.5 million people lost their jobs in April, raising the unemployment rate to 14.7%. Both are post-World War II records. The European Union is now forecasting the worst economic outlook since the Great Depression. While …

Staff (2020-05-12). Headlines for May 12, 2020. democracynow.org Dr. Fauci to Warn Lawmakers of \"Needless Suffering and Death\" If Lockdowns End Too Soon, European Countries Report New Spikes as They Reopen Economies, Trump Makes False Claim About Testing Capacity, Tells Reporter Weijia Jiang to \"Ask China\" About Coronavirus, PA Plant Canceled Trump Visit over Concern for Worker Health, New Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Help COVID-19, Can Cause Heart Attacks, China Threatens \"Countermeasures\" for U.S. Journalist Visa Restrictions, Meatpacking Union Condemns Reopening of Factories Amid Pandemic, India Starts to Ease Lockdown as Cases Mount, Coronavirus Cases Mount in W…

Project Censored (2020-05-12). Kent State 50th with Mickey Huff. projectcensored.org 50 years have passed since Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. Four students were killed and nine wounded. On this week\'s…

ISDBICC (2020-05-12). [Research Paper] Mapping of variations in child stunting, wasting and underweight within the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000—2017. thelancet.com CGF indicators have improved in India, but there are substantial variations between the districts in their magnitude and rate of decline, and the inequality between districts has increased in a large proportion of the states. The poor correlation between the national surveys for CGF estimates highlights the need to standardise collection of anthropometric data in India. The district-level trends in this report provide a useful reference for targeting the efforts under NNM to reduce CGF across India and meet the Indian and global targets.

Project Censored (2020-05-12). The Censorship of Inequality in the Covid-19 Era: How Corporate and Market-Based Metrics Rule the News, and Why it Matters. projectcensored.org By Anthony DiMaggio The old adage that \"the more things change the more they stay the same\" seems particularly appropriate to media coverage in the Covid-19 crisis. Old patterns of media…

Kate Oh (2020-05-12). President Trump\'s Assault On Inspectors General Threatens Our Civil Liberties. aclu.org One recent Friday night, President Trump quietly nominated a replacement inspector general (IG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But this was no ordinary nomination. If confirmed by the Senate, it will force out the acting IG after her office released a

Andrea Woods (2020-05-12). Dallas County Officials are Leaving Vulnerable People to Catch COVID-19 in Jail. aclu.org Wykivia and Ideare Bailey were taking every precaution. Worried for their asthmatic daughter due to the spread of COVID-19, the couple was meticulous in cleaning, sanitizing, and social distancing to reduce every possible threat. However, when Ideare was arrested for property theft and booked into the Dallas County Jail on April 6, there was no way to adhere to those precautions. Held in a crowded intake room, he could not maintain six feet of distance from other people. Forced to live in a dormitory with 60 other people — for meals, downtime, sleeping, bathing, everything — Mr. Bailey knew that he…

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-12). Consumer Price Index Plunges 0.8 Percent, Core Falls 0.4 Percent. cepr.net Food prices rose 2.6 percent in April, reflecting a large increase in store-bought food. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell 0.8 percent in April, driven again by large price declines in sectors that were hit hard by pandemic-related shutdowns. Gas prices fell 20.6 percent, following a drop of 10.5 percent in March. They are …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-12). Mountains Of Evidence Show COVID-19 Was All Over The World Oct/Nov 2019, Why Is It Being Ignored? thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/12/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Aaron Maté (2020-05-11). Bombshell: Crowdstrike admits \'no evidence\' Russia stole emails from DNC server. thegrayzone.com Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: \"We did…

Staff (2020-05-11). Trump Death Clock: Creator Eugene Jarecki Says \"Reckless Mishandling\" of COVID-19 Must Be Quantified. democracynow.org As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States surpasses 80,000, an unusual new billboard called the Trump Death Clock in New York City\'s Times Square keeps tally of lives lost to government inaction. \"What we found was that there was an amazing and very dark truth underlying the numbers that spoke to reckless mishandling of a pandemic by the president and his team, and we felt that ought to be quantified,\" says Eugene Jarecki, the award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and activist behind the project.

Staff (2020-05-11). \"COVID-19 Has Been Racialized\": Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking \"Trump = Plague\" democracynow.org Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City\'s response to the spread of COVID-19. We speak with author and activist Jill Nelson, who was herself arrested by NYPD in April for writing \"Trump = Plague\" in chalk on an abandoned building in her Washington Heights neighborhood. The 67-year-old scholar was handcuffed, taken to the police station and held for five hours. Now she is speaking out. The president is \"telling us that as people of color, and older people, we should just die,\" says Nelson. \"It\'s ridiculous.\"

Staff (2020-05-11). \"Weaponized and Racialized\": Police Departments Use COVID-19 to Target Black & Brown Communities. democracynow.org Viral images have shone a spotlight on uneven policing. Some show police officers distributing masks to White residents in crowded New York City parks — and apparently arresting no one. Meanwhile, videos have emerged of violent crackdowns on social distancing measures in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. We continue our look at how Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City\'s enforcement measures during the pandemic, and also discuss how officers have ordered protesters to disband, citing executive orders from the mayor and the governor that ban \"any non-ess…

Staff (2020-05-11). Headlines for May 11, 2020. democracynow.org COVID-19 Cases Mount as States Reopen Economies, NY Investigating Deaths of at Least 3 Children Linked to COVID-19, Bronx Hospital Investigating Nurse Who Shared Video of Medical Staff Speaking Out About Lack of PPE, Cheyenne River Sioux Defies South Dakota Order to Remove Coronavirus Checkpoints, Another COVID-19 Case Confirmed at White House as Barack Obama Blasts Trump\'s \"Chaotic\" Response, Hunger-Striking Immigrant Women Released from California Prison, U.S. Continues to Deport Haitian Immigrants, Including Those with COVID-19 Infections, WSJ: Trump Planning to Ban H-1B Visas, Three Prisoners Die at Chino Fac…

Alan MacLeod (2020-05-11). Guaidó\'s mercenary hit contract on Venezuela\'s Maduro mirrors official US bounty, authorizes death squad killings. thegrayzone.com The leaked contract between Juan Guaidó and the Silvercorp USA mercenary firm closely resembles a DEA bounty placed on the…

Martin Begemann, Jan Seidel, Luise Poustka, Hannelore Ehrenreich (2020-05-11). Accumulated environmental risk in young refugees — A prospective evaluation. thelancet.com Young refugees, arriving in hosting countries with alarming \'risk burden\', should be considered as highly vulnerable towards development of global functional deficits, behavioral abnormalities, and neuropsychiatric disorders. Rapid proactive integration or sustainable support of those who will return to rebuild their countries are mandatory.

Paul Dobson (2020-05-11). Western Venezuela Rocked by Rolling Blackouts. venezuelanalysis.com Low water levels at hydroelectric dams, \"terrorist sabotage\" and damaged infrastructure have been blamed for the power cuts.

Trudy Hess (2020-05-11). Senator Nina Turner has something to Share! peoplesparty.org has something to share! | I\'m happy to say that after her courageous show of support last weekend, Senator Nina Turner will be joining us on a National Call soon. She wanted me to let you know she\'s been watching our movement with admiration for some time. | SNT has a history of standing up for what is right, even in the face of immense pressure and adversity. She is not afraid to stand up for bold new ideas. | | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery | Join the call at 8 pm ET on May 13. |

Derrick Broze (2020-05-11). This Is Why You Can\'t Trust The Fact Checkers. thelastamericanvagabond.com For the last eight years I have worked as a writer, researcher, and investigative reporter for many well-known American independent media outlets. I have spent my time investigating digital surveillance technology, attacks on indigenous communities, and the overall growth of the government and corporate power. As someone working in this field, writing about topics which …

Eleanor J. Bader (2020-05-11). College Faculty Are Speaking Out Against Billionaire Donors. progressive.org Resignations from a growing number of professors bring attention to the undue influence of deep-pocketed donors like Charles Koch.

splcenter (2020-05-11). SPLC fights to keep children out of juvenile detention, other confined settings during pandemic. splcenter.org …

Linda Wiggins-Chavis (2020-05-11). We Also Face a Pandemic of Racism. progressive.org COVID-19 sheds light on America\'s systemic oppression of people of color.

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-11). Doctors Speak Out About COVID 19 & The Violent Suppression Of Your Rights. thelastamericanvagabond.com The only question, is whether We The People have the courage to stand for what we know to be right, or if we will allow ourselves to be scared into passively accepting the \"new normal,\" a locked down controlled society that was prepped for, planned out, and designed years ago. I for one, will never …

Vincent Tsai and Camden Goetz (2020-05-10). New York pandemic spending favors wealthy over workers. liberationnews.org New York politicians have recently barreled forward with plans for massive cuts to public spending.

Ricardo Vaz (2020-05-10). [UPDATED] Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup. venezuelanalysis.com Trump said the operation \"was not a good attack,\" again denying any US involvement.

Staff (2020-05-09). HBO Docuseries Points To Many Suspects In Atlanta Child Murders, Including The Klan. therealnews.com Atlanta\'s mayor re-opened the 40-year-old case of 30 missing and murdered Black children in Atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation operated a secret investigation that pointed towards a Klan member for at least one of the murders.

Staff (2020-05-09). As Oil Price Plummets, Call to Nationalize Industry Rises. therealnews.com The price of oil dropped below zero, prompting new subsidies from the Federal Reserve. Progressive voices in the U.S. and Canada have a different idea: nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.

Staff (2020-05-09). Largest Public Utility To Outsource Hundreds Of Jobs Amid Covid-19. therealnews.com Despite Trump\'s \'America First\' policy, the Tennessee Valley Authority is outsourcing hundreds of federal jobs overseas.

Janine Jackson (2020-05-09). \'We Can Pool the World\'s Science to Develop Better Medical Tools\' – CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on Covid-19 and the drug industry. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen\'s Peter Maybarduk about the drug industry and Covid-19 for the Media…

Staff (2020-05-09). Women In Prisons Say They\'re Being Punished For Speaking Out About COVID-19 Risks. therealnews.com Women say they\'re being punished for contacting people outside about their living conditions. Activists are planning an action May 23 at Jessup Correctional Facility in response.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-09). The Heat: COVID-19 — Iran and U.S. economy. america.cgtn.com Iran is one of the worst hit countries in the Middle East with more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19. In April, President Hassan Rouhani started the process of reopening the country and recently mosques reopened their doors. And, April will be remembered as the worst …

Project Censored (2020-05-09). Episode 83 — Shelter-in-Place Protests; Implicit Bias and Medical Schools During COVID-19 with Robin Andersen and Colleen Sweeney. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and…

Derrick Broze (2020-05-09). \"We Need An Army Of Contact Tracers\" — Meet The Enforcement Arm Of The \"New Normal\" thelastamericanvagabond.com As the people of the world grapple with a pandemic that is demonstrably less deadly than originally reported, the public is being primed to accept an exponential increase in invasions of personal liberty and privacy. Every day the public grows more weary of lock downs which seem to never end, and the bankrupting of individuals …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-09). \"Gene-Edited\" Future Justified By COVID-19 & France Admits Athletes Infected At Wuhan Military Games. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/8/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Lawrence Wittner (2020-05-08). Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, America\'s Billionaires Thrive and Prosper. zcomm.org Although most Americans currently face hard times, with unemployment surging to the levels of the Great Depression and enormous numbers of people sick or dying from the coronavirus pandemic, the nation\'s super-rich remain a notable exception. Financially, they are doing remarkably well. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, between March 18 and April 28,

Vincent Tsai (2020-05-08). In NYC pandemic used as excuse to crackdown on the homeless. liberationnews.org This follows incitement by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo against the homeless.

Aviva Levine (2020-05-08). U.S. to roll back infection control rules in nursing homes in midst of pandemic. liberationnews.org Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of long-term care facilities were failing to maintain appropriate standards of hygiene and disease prevention.

CounterSpin (2020-05-08). Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19. fair.org Media…

Staff (2020-05-08). \"A Terrible Price\": Mardi Gras Story Lays Bare How COVID-19 Is Devastating Black America. democracynow.org We look at the deadly disparate impact of the pandemic on African Americans as told through an in-depth story for The New York Times Magazine by writer Linda Villarosa in her new piece, \"\'A Terrible Price\': The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America,\" that tells what happened to the Zulu club, a Black social organization in New Orleans, during and after Mardi Gras. She reports that the experience is usually a joy, but the coronavirus made it a tragedy.

Staff (2020-05-08). As States Loosen Pandemic Restrictions, Dr. Leana Wen Warns \"We Are Not Ready for a Safe Reopening\" democracynow.org As more than 40 states begin to reopen, President Trump is downplaying the need for mass COVID-19 testing, even as he himself is now being tested every day for the virus. We speak with emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen, who says, \"Widespread testing is so critical. … Why shouldn\'t this testing be available to all Americans?\"

Anya Parampil (2020-05-08). Silvercorp co-founder speaks with The Grayzone: What did State Department know about failed Venezuela invasion? thegrayzone.com The Grayzone speaks to Drew White — a close friend and business partner of Silvercorp mercenary firm founder and failed…

Ben Norton (2020-05-08). Russian journalists accuse NY Times of stealing stories that earned it Pulitzer Prize — for second time. thegrayzone.com The New York Times has apparently stolen its Pulitzer Prize-winning stories from Russian journalists — the same liberal anti-Putin reporters…

Jane R. Millar, Nomonde Bengu, Rowena Fillis, Ken Sprenger, Vuyokazi Ntlantsana, Vinicius A. Vieira, Nisreen Khambati, Moherndran Archary, Maximilian Muenchhoff, Andreas Groll, Nicholas Grayson, John Adamson, Katya Govender, Krista Dong, Photini Kiepiela, Bruce D. Walker, David Bonsall, Thomas Connor, Matthew J. Bull, Nelisiwe Nxele, Julia Roider, Nasreen Ismail, Emily Adland, Maria C. Puertas, Javier Martinez-Picado, Philippa C. Matthews, Thumbi Ndung\'u, Philip Goulder, the Ucwaningo Lwabantwana Consortium (2020-05-08). HIGH-FREQUENCY failure of combination antiretroviral therapy in paediatric HIV infection is associated with unmet maternal needs causing maternal NON-ADHERENCE. thelancet.com The success of early infant testing and cART initiation strategies is severely limited by subsequent cART non-adherence in HIV-infected children. Although there are practical challenges to administering paediatric cART formulations, these are overcome by mothers who themselves are cART-adherent. These findings point to the ongoing obligation to address the unmet needs of the mothers. Eliminating the particular barriers preventing adequate treatment for these vulnerable women and infants need to be prioritised in order to achieve durable suppression of viraemia on cART, let alone HIV cure/remission, in HIV-infecte…

Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner (2020-05-07). US Investigating Ex-Green Beret, Denies \'Direct\' Involvement in Failed Venezuela Coup. venezuelanalysis.com New documents confirm that the Venezuelan opposition signed a contract with Florida-based Silvercorp to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro.

Neal Sweeney (2020-05-07). How capitalism and racism hold back a COVID-19 cure. liberationnews.org In a few short months, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has swept the world without any proven treatment or vaccine.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-07). The Heat: COVID-19 Pandemic-U.S. and Japan. america.cgtn.com A new government document projects the daily death toll in the U.S. could reach 3000 by June 1. Japan is extending its state of emergency until May 31.

Jeff Jurgens (2020-05-07). Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help. peaceaction.org Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help Washington, D.C. — May 7, 2020 — In response to the veto by President Trump yesterday of a bill (S.J.Res.68) to reclaim congressional war powers in regards to Iran and the anticipated failure today of the Senate override vote, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for …

John H Amuasi, Christian Walzer, David Heymann, Hélène Carabin, Le Thi Huong, Andrew Haines, Andrea S Winkler (2020-05-07). [Correspondence] Calling for a COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition. thelancet.com Emerging from its ancestral bat host in December, 2019,1 possibly at a wildlife trading market in Wuhan, China,2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had by mid-April, 2020, spread globally, infecting more than 2 million individuals and causing at least 130‚Äà000 deaths. Travel restrictions were imposed, borders sealed, schools and businesses closed, and more than half of humanity locked down, all to reduce the spread of this virus.

Project Censored (2020-05-07). Episode 82 — The COVID Chronicles #4: New York City. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Bratton Young (2020-05-06). Clase dominante a los obreros: tu labor o tu vida. liberationnews.org Los trabajadores de todo el país se preparan para un regreso prematuro a sus trabajos a pesar de las advertencias de salud pública de un segundo aumento en las infecciones por el Coronavirus. Un total de 23 estados, con una población combinada de 120 millones de personas, han emitido órdenes de \"regreso al trabajo\" que entrarán en vigencia en los próximos días.

Bratton Young (2020-05-06). Ruling class tells workers: your job or your life. liberationnews.org Workers across the country are bracing for a premature return to their jobs despite public health warnings of a second spike in Coronavirus infections.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-06). The Heat: COVID-19 impact on U.S.-China relations & Russia battles coronavirus. america.cgtn.com China-U.S. relations under strain over COVID-19. And, Russia battles coronavirus.

Jeff Jurgens (2020-05-06). U.S. Reverses Policy On Use of Landmines. peaceaction.org On May 6, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) headed a congressional oversight letter with 107 other members of Congress to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressing disappointment to the Trump Administration\'s reversal of the policy limiting the use of antipersonnel landmines to the defense of South Korea, and seeking answers to …

Oliver Gross, Onnen Moerer, Manfred Weber, Tobias B Huber, Simone Scheithauer (2020-05-06). [Correspondence] COVID-19-associated nephritis: early warning for disease severity and complications? thelancet.com Among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), parameters for the prediction of the need for admission to intensive care units (ICUs) are urgently needed to enable appropriate resource allocation. Here we report that analysis of a urine sample on admission to hospital can be used to detect systemic capillary leak syndrome, which can be a predictor of fluid overload, respiratory failure, need for ICU admission, and death.

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-06). A Massive \"COVID-19\" Cover Up Is Underway & \'US Mercenaries\' Caught In Venezuelan Coup Attempt. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/5/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-06). Horrifying Glimpse Into How DARPA Will \"Save\" You From COVID-19 & Venezuela Coup Tied Back To Trump. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/6/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz (2020-05-05). Venezuela: Two US Citizens Captured in Botched Coup Attempt. venezuelanalysis.com Two former green berets were arrested in a second failed assault on Venezuelan shores on Monday.

Nic de la Riva (2020-05-05). Paramilitary invasions in Venezuela: Made in USA. liberationnews.org Attempted invasion taken care of swiftly and efficiently by the Venezuelan government.

Sunil Freeman (2020-05-05). New PSL book: \'Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism\'. liberationnews.org \"It is a small book, but expansive in outlook in a way that echoes the holistic eco-socialist society we will need…\"

Annika Lee (2020-05-05). Detainees put at high risk for COVID-19 at Madison, Wi., jail. liberationnews.org To protect them from COVID-19, incarcerated people must be freed.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-05). The Heat: U.S. approves drug to treat COVID-19. america.cgtn.com The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given Remdesivir emergency authorization for treating COVID-19. While not a cure, the drug has helped the sickest coronavirus patients.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-05). The Heat: COVID19-U.S. Economy & Mexico battles coronavirus. america.cgtn.com Unemployment claims move past 30 million in the United States as its economy shrinks and Mexico battles the coronavirus pandemic.

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-05). The Heat: Italy reopens and COVID-19 surges in U.S. america.cgtn.com Italy reopens nearly two months after a nationwide shutdown.

David L Leverenz, Teresa K Tarrant (2020-05-05). [Correspondence] Is the HScore useful in COVID-19? thelancet.com Puja Mehta and colleagues1 suggest using the HScore2 to detect hyperinflammatory states in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The HScore is validated for the diagnosis of secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH), a condition that shares a similar cytokine profile to severe COVID-19.

Paolo Perini, Bilal Nabulsi, Claudio Bianchini Massoni, Matteo Azzarone, Antonio Freyrie (2020-05-05). [Correspondence] Acute limb ischaemia in two young, non-atherosclerotic patients with COVID-19. thelancet.com Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was announced a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020.1 As of May 3, 2020, Italy is one of the countries hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 28‚Äà884 confirmed deaths.2 In addition to pulmonary insufficiency, COVID-19 is associated with other life-threatening complications such as sepsis, heart failure, and pulmonary embolism.3,4 Here we describe patients with COVID-19 who presented with acute limb ischaemia but did not have atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, or pre-existing blood clotting disorders.

Elena Cuadrado-Payán, Enrique Montagud-Marrahi, Manuel Torres-Elorza, Marta Bodro, Miquel Blasco, Esteban Poch, Alex Soriano, Gaston J Piñeiro (2020-05-05). [Correspondence] SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus co-infection. thelancet.com Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been an international public health emergency.1—3 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mimics the influenza virus regarding clinical presentation, transmission mechanism, and seasonal coincidence.3 Thus, co-infection by both viruses is feasible. To the best of our knowledge, only one case of co-infection is known, although the diagnosis was sequential.4 Here, we present four cases of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza co-infection, diagnosed simultaneously.

Eric Crubézy, Norbert Telmon (2020-05-05). [Letter] Pandemic-related excess mortality (COVID-19), public health measures and funerary rituals. thelancet.com Faced to COVID-19, the earliest public health recommendations in France [1] forbade washing of the body and mandated inhumation and cremation within 24 h, recommendations similar to those when case-patients were, more likely than non—case-patients, to have participated in funeral rituals. When a patient is hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2, family and friends were not allowed to be with him or her, and the farewells were done as the patient got into the ambulance. The grieving process, however, implies three phases [2]: viewing of the body, performing a collective ceremony to support those affected, and finally a…

splcenter (2020-05-05). Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic. splcenter.org White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-05). Dr. Andrew Kaufman Interview — The COVID-19 Theory That You Are Not Allowed To Hear. thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is Dr. Andrew Kaufman to discuss a topic that, despite being rooted in facts, evidence and years of research, has been suppressed, censored and ignored by the entirety of the mainstream medical and scientific community. (d.tube/c/tlavagabond) Bitcoin Donations Are Appreciated: www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bitcoin-donation (3FSozj9gQ1UniHvEiRmkPnXzHSVMc68U9f)…

Whitney Webb (2020-05-04). Coronavirus Gives a Dangerous Boost to DARPA\'s Darkest Agenda. thelastamericanvagabond.com Technology developed by the Pentagon\'s controversial research branch is getting a huge boost amid the current coronavirus crisis, with little attention going to the agency\'s ulterior motives for developing said technologies, their potential for weaponization or their unintended consequences. In January, well before the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis would result in lockdowns, quarantines and economic devastation …

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-04). Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing. splcenter.org As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.

Alberto E Paniz-Mondolfi, Emilia M Sordillo, Marilianna C Márquez-Colmenarez, Lourdes A Delgado-Noguera, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales (2020-05-04). [Correspondence] The arrival of SARS-CoV-2 in Venezuela. thelancet.com We read with interest the World Report about the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Venezuelan migrants.1 We concur wholeheartedly that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a negative impact on Venezuelans who have taken refuge in neighbouring countries.

David A Kass, Priya Duggal, Oscar Cingolani (2020-05-04). [Correspondence] Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages. thelancet.com Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 was first reported in China in late December, 2019, and has since evolved into a global pandemic. As of April 29, 2020, COVID-19 has been confirmed in more than 3 million individuals in 185 countries and regions, with an overall mortality rate of more than 6%.1 Severe disease involves bilateral interstitial pneumonia requiring intensive care unit (ICU) ventilatory support and can evolve into adult respiratory distress syndrome with high mortality.

David Nott (2020-05-04). [Comment] The COVID-19 response for vulnerable people in places affected by conflict and humanitarian crises. thelancet.com Next year I will have worked full time in the UK\'s National Health Service (NHS) for 40 years. I seem to be a survivor not only from the political rollercoaster that various governments have enacted on the NHS, but also from volunteering my surgical skills in places affected by conflict and natural disasters for the past 25 years. The experiences of the patients I have served whose lives have been impacted by war, injustice, and inhumanity during this time have given me insight into what life is really about.

Paul Dobson (2020-05-04). Venezuela: 45 Killed in Guanare Prison Riot. venezuelanalysis.com The government pledged to investigate the May 1 riot, which it described as an attempted breakout.

Project Censored (2020-05-04). Special Guests Nicholas Baham, III, Anthony DiMaggio. projectcensored.org This week\'s program focuses on the media\'s response to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Mickey\'s first guest is ethnic studies professor Nicholas Baham, III, who outlines his \"Covid Chronicles,\" a continuing…

Carmen Martinez (2020-05-04). Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected. splcenter.org Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-05-04). Anti-LGBTQ Group Pushes Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID-19. splcenter.org Family Research Council (FRC) has branched out of its usual anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice rhetoric to push longtime right-wing conspiracy theories about voting by mail. It\'s a narrative that is gaining popularity during COVID-19 restrictions with regard to public gatherings and social distancing.

Victor CW Tam, Shing Yau Tam, Wai Kwong Poon, Helen Ka Wai Law, Shara WY Lee (2020-05-03). [Letter] A reality check on the use of face masks during the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong. thelancet.com Despite the rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into a pandemic, an \'east-west\' divide remains between the recommendations of different health authorities on the use of face masks in the community [1,2]. We respectfully differ from the WHO recommendation on its effectiveness [3]. In our opinion, mass masking in the community is one of the key measures that controls transmission during the outbreak in Hong Kong and China. Moreover, it would be futile to convince individuals who experienced the SARS or swine flu outbreaks, not to wear face masks for protection.

Ricardo Vaz (2020-05-03). Venezuelan Armed Forces: Paramilitary Incursion Neutralized. venezuelanalysis.com Former US green beret Jordan Goudreau, reported to have led preparations for a coup, confirmed the operation.

Lucas Koerner (2020-05-02). Former US Special Ops Soldier Led Plot to Invade Venezuela: Sources. venezuelanalysis.com AP reports that the Venezuelan opposition and Colombian authorities were aware of the plan.

Joe Emersberger (2020-05-02). Remembering Henri Falcon\'s May 2018 Presidential campaign in Venezuela. zcomm.org Henri Falcon was a viable candidate — attacked by his own side Venezuela\'s opposition had a viable candidate in Henri Falcon, a two-time governor of the state of Lara. He was first elected governor of the state of Lara in 2008 as a pro-Chavez candidate.[1] He broke with Chavez in 2010 and was then re-elected

CounterSpin (2020-05-01). Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging. fair.org Media…

Anand Naidoo (2020-05-01). The Heat: China and Impact of COVID-19 on Native Americans. america.cgtn.com The Heat takes a look at the latest from China as it emerges from lockdown and in the U.S. How is the coronavirus outbreak impacting Native Americans?>

Project Censored (2020-05-01). Episode 81 — The Biden Veepstakes and The Media\'s COVID War Rhetoric and Bernie Coverage with Dr. Robin Andersen. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Luo M, Li P, Niu W. (2020-05-01). Concerns Remain Regarding Long-term Ozone Exposure and Respiratory Outcomes. jamanetwork.com To the Editor We read with great interest the article by Paulin et al, who examined the association between long-term ozone exposure and the respiratory health of smokers, finding that higher ozone exposure was significantly associated with lower lung function and more emphysema and air trapping. The findings of this article underscore the need for enhanced meteorological monitoring on ground ozone concentrations as well as the need for early detection and targeted intervention of respiratory diseases in vulnerable members of society to reduce the escalating burden of respiratory diseases worldwide. However, from…

Yang S, Hu J, Li Q. (2020-05-01). Not All Hypertension Is a Lifelong Disease. jamanetwork.com This Teachable Moment encourages clinicians to be aware of the high prevalence of primary aldosteronism and to consider screening in appropriately selected patients.

Redberg RF. (2020-05-01). JAMA Internal Medicine —The Year in Review, 2019. jamanetwork.com Clearly, 2020 is another year full of interesting health care issues and new (and not so new) health care proposals that we look forward to discussing on these pages. In addition to a wide range of clinical topics in internal medicine, we will continue to cover issues such as drug pricing, surprise billing, bundled payments, Medicare for all, and transparency issues, to name a few. We are now in the tenth year of the Less Is More series and are pleased to see international attention to the harms of overdiagnosis and overtreatment and on programs to increase high-value care. Of course, our work is far from done, a…

Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner (2020-04-30). US to Mobilize Military Reservists in \'Anti-Drug\' Operation Against Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com The Trump administration is also targeting oil-for-food deals involving the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies.

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-30). The Heat: COVID-19 research and medical response. america.cgtn.com As…

Jeff Jurgens (2020-04-30). Take Action: Keep COVID Stimulus $$ Away From the Pentagon. peaceaction.org Congress is putting together additional and much needed stimulus packages in response to COVID-19. That\'s the good news. The bad news is that the Pentagon is trying to weasel billions of dollars out of these stimulus bills! All just to keep the mega-profits rolling for weapons dealers and the military-industrial complex. As people here at …

Jeff Jurgens (2020-04-30). U.S. Organizations React to Global Military Spending Report. peaceaction.org Joint Statement: U.S. organizations react to global military spending report April 27, 2020 Our diverse group of 39 think-tanks, non-profits, faith-based organizations, and advocacy groups based in the United States find the exorbitant amount of money spent on militaries worldwide to be an irresponsible and harmful use of global wealth. The Global Military Expenditures Report …

Nigel Curtis, Annie Sparrow, Tedros A Ghebreyesus, Mihai G Netea (2020-04-30). [Correspondence] Considering BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19. thelancet.com In addition to its specific effect against tuberculosis, the BCG vaccine has beneficial nonspecific (off-target) effects on the immune system that protect against a wide range of other infections and are used routinely to treat bladder cancer.1,2 This has led to the suggestion that vaccination with BCG might have a role in protecting health-care workers and other vulnerable individuals against severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Project Censored (2020-04-30). Episode 80 — The COVID Chronicles #3: Washington D.C. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-30). Dismantling The Superficial \"China Did It\" Narrative (Origin Unknown) & CDC \"Suspends\" Flu Reporting. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/29/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-30). Cody Wilson Uses COVID-19 Crisis To Re-enter Extremist Movement. splcenter.org A registered sex offender and antigovernment icon is trying to use the current global pandemic to whitewash his image. A recent post on Jacobite magazine\'s website seeks to remind readers of Cody Wilson\'s past contributions to the movement and to cast doubt on the government responsible for his arrest and sentencing.

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-29). The Heat: COVID-19 Pandemic — Global impact. america.cgtn.com The coronavirus pandemic which has caused over 216 million deaths worldwide is also having a massive economic and geo-political impact.

Justin T Okano, Sally Blower (2020-04-29). [Correspondence] Preventing major outbreaks of COVID-19 in jails. thelancet.com Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections are now being found in jails throughout the USA. Conditions in jails are very conducive to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and social distancing is impossible. Therefore, there is widespread concern that there could be major outbreaks in jails and that jails could amplify transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in surrounding communities.

Borame L Dickens, Joel R Koo, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Alex R Cook (2020-04-29). [Correspondence] Institutional, not home-based, isolation could contain the COVID-19 outbreak. thelancet.com In the absence of vaccines, non-pharmaceutical interventions such as physical distancing, intensive contact tracing, and case isolation remain frontline measures in controlling the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.1 In Wuhan, China, these measures were implemented alongside city lockdown, mass quarantine, and school closure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in January and February, 2020.2 Critical to Wuhan\'s success, cases identified through liberal testing, regardless of symptom profile, were immediately isolated in purpose-built shelters, as delays in isolation fro…

John David Norrie (2020-04-29). [Comment] Remdesivir for COVID-19: challenges of underpowered studies. thelancet.com In The Lancet, Yeming Wang and colleagues1 report a randomised trial of remdesivir (200 mg on day 1 followed by 100 mg on days 2—10, in single daily infusions) versus placebo for adults with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in ten hospitals in Wuhan, China. The authors report on 236 patients (140 [59%] men and 96 [41%] women; median age 65 years [IQR 56—71]), with inconclusive findings on the primary outcome of time to clinical improvement, defined as a two-point improvement on a 6-point ordinal scale,2 a hazard ratio of 1 ∑23 (95% CI 0 ∑87—1 ∑75; favouring remdesivir), and…

Yang Liu, Zhonglei Gu, Shang Xia, Benyun Shi, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Yong Shi, Jiming Liu (2020-04-29). What are the underlying transmission patterns of COVID-19 outbreak? An age-specific social contact characterization. thelancet.com With an in-depth characterization of age-specific social contact-based transmission, the retrospective and prospective situations of the disease outbreak, including the past and future transmission risks, the effectiveness of different interventions, and the disease transmission risks of restoring normal social activities, are computationally analyzed and reasonably explained. The conclusions drawn from the study not only provide a comprehensive explanation of the underlying COVID-19 transmission patterns in China, but more importantly, offer the social contact-based risk analysis methods that can readily be appl…

Yeming Wang, Dingyu Zhang, Guanhua Du, Ronghui Du, Jianping Zhao, Yang Jin, Shouzhi Fu, Ling Gao, Zhenshun Cheng, Qiaofa Lu, Yi Hu, Guangwei Luo, Ke Wang, Yang Lu, Huadong Li, Shuzhen Wang, Shunan Ruan, Chengqing Yang, Chunlin Mei, Yi Wang, Dan Ding, Feng Wu, Xin Tang, Xianzhi Ye, Yingchun Ye, Bing Liu, Jie Yang, Wen Yin, Aili Wang, Guohui Fan, Fei Zhou, Zhibo Liu, Xiaoying Gu, Jiuyang Xu, Lianhan Shang, Yi Zhang, Lianjun Cao, Tingting Guo, Yan Wan, Hong Qin, Yushen Jiang, Thomas Jaki, Frederick G Hayden, Peter W Horby, Bin Cao, Chen Wang (2020-04-29). [Articles] Remdesivir in adults with severe COVID-19: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial. thelancet.com In this study of adult patients admitted to hospital for severe COVID-19, remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits. However, the numerical reduction in time to clinical improvement in those treated earlier requires confirmation in larger studies.

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/28/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Whitney Webb (2020-04-28). Douglas Valentine Interview — How The COVID-19 Police State Was Born In Vietnam. thelastamericanvagabond.com Interview Transcript: Whitney: Today I am joined by the legendary author and researcher Doug Valentine, whose books, including \"The CIA as Organized Crime,\" among several others, are essential reading for understanding how covert and illegal intelligence operations have shaped, and continue to shape, conflict and policy in the U.S. and beyond. In this interview, we …

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

Daniel M Altmann, Daniel C Douek, Rosemary J Boyton (2020-04-27). [Comment] What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity. thelancet.com About a third of the world is under lockdown as a public health measure to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Policy makers are increasingly pressed to articulate their rationales and strategies for moving out of lockdown; the process of re-emergence is already cautiously starting in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Wuhan, and some US states. As the counterpoise between further disease spread and socioeconomic costs is debated, it is essential that policy makers in all affected countries have the best possible d…

Venezuelanalysis (2020-04-27). Venezuela Rolls out Cabinet Change, Economic Measures to Combat Inflation. venezuelanalysis.com Measures include a 60 percent wage increase and a push to bring food prices under control.

Project Censored (2020-04-27). Peter Kuznick and The Global Covid 19 Solidarity Manifesto. projectcensored.org Historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of \"The Untold History of the United States,\" returns to the Project Censored Show to discuss his latest project: working with a team of other…

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-26). Evidence US Gov Knew Of COVID Before November 2019 & Anti-China Talking Points Expose CV Cover Up. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/25/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Project Censored (2020-04-25). Their Second Recession: For the Second Time in Their Lives, Millennials Will Head to the Polls with an Economic Depression Looming. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon On Election Day 2020, millennials face a difficult choice: vote or stay home. Either way, their decision will need to be accompanied by wide-spread activism, something they…

Project Censored (2020-04-25). Episode 79 — The News Stories Buried by COVID-19 and Terrorism with Dr. Ashley Larson. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-24). The Heat: Economic impact of COVID-19 in the U.S. america.cgtn.com More than 26 million Americans have now filed for unemployment, the highest number since the Great Depression.

Maria Demarco, Noorie Hyun, Olivia Carter-Pokras, Tina R. Raine-Bennett, Li Cheung, Xiaojian Chen, Anne Hammer, Nicole Campos, Walter Kinney, Julia C. Gage, Brian Befano, Rebecca B. Perkins, Xin He, Cher Dallal, Jie Chen, Nancy Poitras, Marie-Helene Mayrand, Francois Coutlee, Robert D. Burk, Thomas Lorey, Philip E. Castle, Nicolas Wentzensen, Mark Schiffman (2020-04-24). [Research Paper] A study of type-specific HPV natural history and implications for contemporary cervical cancer screening programs. thelancet.com HPV type and persistence are the major predictors of progression to CIN3+; at a minimum, distinguishing HPV16 is clinically important. Dividing the other HPV types into three risk-groups is worth considering.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump\'s executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

Project Censored (2020-04-24). Episode 78 — The COVID Chronicles #2: with Dr. Andrew Chan (Massachusetts) and the COVID Symptom Tracker App. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Lucas Koerner (2020-04-23). Venezuela: Guaido to Use Funds Frozen in US to Pay Loyalists $5000 Monthly Salaries. venezuelanalysis.com Pro-Guaido lawmakers and diplomats will take nearly a third of an $80 million \"Liberation Fund.\"

Lawrence Wittner (2020-04-23). If Farmworkers Are \"Essential,\" Why Are They Treated So Badly? zcomm.org On March 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, spurred to action by the coronavirus pandemic, issued a memorandum that identified the nation\'s 2.5 million farmworkers as \"essential\" workers. Soon thereafter, agribusinesses began distributing formal letters to their farm laborers, also declaring that that they were \"essential.\" Of course, it shouldn\'t have required a

Jon Rainwater (2020-04-23). A Myriad of Ways to Wage Peace During These Times. peaceaction.org As we shelter in our homes to protect ourselves from this global pandemic, we wanted to share some of the many ways you can remain active and impactful in the work for a more peaceful world. Peace Action has long been a leader in organizing international conferences, marches, and rallies around the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty …

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-23). The Heat: Impact of COVID-19 on Immigration and Latino Communities. america.cgtn.com As the number of global cases surpasses 2.6 million, The World Health Organization warns the coronavirus will be with us for a long time.

A.J. Sinclair, A.H. Abdelhafiz (2020-04-23). [Commentary] Age, frailty and diabetes — triple jeopardy for vulnerability to COVID-19 infection. thelancet.com In December 2019, a pneumonia like illness was first reported in Wuhan-China caused by a new coronavirus named corona virus disease ‚àí2019 (COVID-19) which then spread to cause a global pandemic. The epidemiology of COVID-19 incidence, severity of illness and mortality seem to be shifted towards older people particularly those with multiple comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease [1]. However, frailty, which affects more than one in five older people with type 2 diabetes, worsens prognosis in severe acute illness and is a better predictor of ICU (intensive car…

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (2020-04-23). [Editorial] Reflecting on World Asthma Day in the era of COVID-19. thelancet.com On May 2, 2020, World Asthma Day will again focus on the needs of people with asthma across the globe. Previous themes have included managing asthma and living with the disease. These themes resonate more than ever this year, as any discussions are likely to be dominated by current debates in relation to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its effects on asthma care and management.

Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz (2020-04-22). Trump Administration Orders Chevron to Shutter Venezuela Operations. venezuelanalysis.com The latest measures followed reports of fresh dialogue between the government and the opposition.

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-22). The Heat: Coronavirus — Africa and New Zealand. america.cgtn.com From Africa to New Zealand, the battle against COVID-19 continues across the world.

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-21). The Heat: 20+ potential COVID-19 vaccines in development. america.cgtn.com Urgent work continues on more than 20 potential coronavirus vaccines. Plus is there enough accurate testing for U.S. states to reopen?

Paul K. Drain, Nigel Garrett (2020-04-21). [Commentary] SARS-CoV-2 pandemic expanding in sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for COVID-19 in people living with HIV. thelancet.com In December 2019, a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, started a global pandemic of respiratory illness, termed COVID-19 [1]. The spectrum of COVID-19 has ranged from a mild, self-limiting respiratory tract illness to severe progressive pneumonia, multi-organ failure, and death [2]. Older patients and those with a weaker immune system appear to have a greater risk of death [3]. Thus far, the vast majority of deaths from COVID-19 have occurred in Italy, China, Iran, and Spain—all Northern hemisphere countries with good health care resources and a low HIV prevalence.

Arundhati Roy (2020-04-21). India, Narendra Modi, and the Coronavirus. zcomm.org Is the far-right government of Narendra Modi exploiting the crisis to target Muslims and the media?>

Paul Dobson (2020-04-20). US \'Plunders\' $342m of Venezuelan Funds as COVID-19 Hotspot Breaks Out at Baseball Academy. venezuelanalysis.com The money has been transferred from a Venezuelan Central Bank account at Citibank to an account at the US Federal Reserve.

Project Censored (2020-04-20). Andy Lee Roth, April Anderson, and Peter Obstler Discuss LGBTQ Issues. projectcensored.org For the first half of the program, sociologist Andy Lee Roth describes his latest work with research librarian April Anderson indicating that Google and other internet giants are filtering out material…

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-18). The Heat: Economic impact of COVID-19. america.cgtn.com The coronavirus pandemic results in big economic losses for China. We\'ll discuss what it means for Beijing and the rest of the world.

CounterSpin (2020-04-17). Naomi Walker on Covid-19 Relief, Johanna Bozuwa on the Last \'New Normal\'. fair.org The $150 billion designated for state, local and tribal governments as relief from the Covid-19 crisis is nowhere near what those governments will need—and not just that, but forcing them to cut budgets just as they need to be spending more is going to drive a cycle that only hurts more those already hurting.

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-17). The Heat: Coronavirus Pandemic-Impact in UK. america.cgtn.com {ANAND OC} | The global death toll from coronavirus continues to surge. And, with millions out of work in the United States, President Trump is issuing new guidelines to get the country moving again.

The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2020-04-17). [Editorial] COVID-19: endgames. thelancet.com As of April 14, 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has killed more than 120‚Äà000 people and led to nearly 2 million confirmed infections worldwide. At least a third of the global population is in some form of lockdown, treading the fine line between health services overwhelmed with rapidly rising infections and an economic recession with its own detrimental health consequences. Although this surreal situation might seem like a plot from the Avengers franchise, the hard reality is that the selfless actions of health-care workers will not alone restore the world to normality.

Project Censored (2020-04-17). Episode 77 — The History of Quarantines and Using Media During the Shelter in Place with Dr. Allison Butler. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-16). The Heat: Coronavirus Pandemic- W.H.O/ U.S. funding controversy. america.cgtn.com President Trump\'s decision to halt funding to the W-H-O, pending a review of its handling of the COVID-19 crisis, has sent shockwaves around the world. With global confirmed cases now topping two million and deaths over 130-thousand, some have questioned the timing of the U.S. …

Francesca Martino, Mario Plebani, Claudio Ronco (2020-04-16). [Correspondence] Kidney transplant programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic. thelancet.com We would like to express our concern about kidney transplant programmes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Although we recognise the importance of kidney transplants for dialysis patients, we cannot ignore the potential safety issues during this pandemic.

David Koeckerling, Daniel Pan, N Lakmal Mudalige, Oluwatobiloba Oyefeso, Joseph Barker (2020-04-16). [Correspondence] Blood transfusion strategies and ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic. thelancet.com In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Ramanathan and colleagues1 describe the provision of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) services for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We would like to make further comment.

Kollengode Ramanathan, Graeme MacLaren, Alain Combes, Daniel Brodie, Kiran Shekar (2020-04-16). [Correspondence] Blood transfusion strategies and ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic — Authors\' reply. thelancet.com We thank David Koeckerling and colleagues for their correspondence calling for restrictive blood transfusion strategies in response to our Health-care Development report on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) services for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1 The ideal transfusion trigger during ECMO support remains uncertain. Daily transfusion of the magnitude mentioned by Koeckerling and colleagues happens occasionally in patients receiving ECMO, but such requirements seldom happen in adult patients receiving venovenous ECMO managed in…

Ricardo Vaz (2020-04-16). Venezuelan Crude Production Falls amid Coronavirus Crisis. venezuelanalysis.com The Caribbean country has seen worsening gasoline shortages as the US ramps up secondary sanctions.

Jeff Jurgens (2020-04-15). Peace During Pandemic — Support the Global Ceasefire. peaceaction.org \"The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war.\" That\'s is what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres exclaimed as he delivered an appeal to warring parties around the world to lay down arms in a global ceasefire. The United States, which is currently engaged in war hostilities on nearly every continent of the world, …

Carla Colombo, Pierre-Régis Burgel, Silvia Gartner, Silke van Koningsbruggen-Rietschel, Lutz Naehrlich, Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Kevin W Southern (2020-04-15). [Correspondence] Impact of COVID-19 on people with cystic fibrosis. thelancet.com Early and detailed characterisation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged principally through publications from China, where the disease was first identified.1 As the pandemic spread to Lombardia, Northern Italy and then globally,2 evaluating the impact on people with cystic fibrosis has become imperative, because the prevalence of this inherited condition is much higher in populations derived from Europe than in other populations.3 Since the beginning of the outbreak in Lombardia, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections have been reported in ten patients with cystic f…

Project Censored (2020-04-15). Episode 76 — The COVID Chronicles #1: Mobile, Alabama. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Michael Shagoury (2020-04-15). WHO calls China\'s COVID-19 measures \"bellwether\" while Trump halts U.S. funding. america.cgtn.com On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he\'d be halting the U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, claiming it \"missed the mark\" on the COVID-19 pandemic while also being \"very China centric.\" The WHO pushed back against the comments and the latest move …

Anand Naidoo (2020-04-14). Impact of coronavirus on mental health. america.cgtn.com In the United States, governors are discussing how and when to re-open the economy. The Heat takes a look at that and also the mental health impact of social isolation.

Project Censored (2020-04-14). Mickey Talks With Dr. Steve Macek. projectcensored.org Mickey\'s guest for the hour is media scholar Dr. Steve Macek of North Central College in suburban Chicago. Macek, a long time contributor to Project Censored\'s annual volume, compiled Chapter 4 of…

Paul Dobson (2020-04-13). Venezuela Extends COVID-19 Quarantine as Pope Criticizes Sanctions. venezuelanalysis.com This is the first time the Pontiff has spoken out against the measures.

Mike Walter (2020-04-11). Coronavirus Pandemic: Signs of Hope Emerging. america.cgtn.com Global cases of coronavirus are close to 1.7 million. Deaths more than 102-thousand. But amid the devastating numbers, there are signs of hope.

Project Censored (2020-04-11). Episode 75 — The CDC\'s Lackluster COVID-19 Recommendations and teaching in quarantine journalist Justin Tatum. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today\'s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Lawrence Wittner (2020-04-10). Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism? zcomm.org Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used to ask students if they thought it was possible for nations to end their fighting of wars against one another. Their responses varied. But the more pessimistic conclusions were sometimes tempered by the contention that, if the world\'s nations faced a common foe, such as

CounterSpin (2020-04-10). Mike Elk on Frontline Worker Rights, Joe Emersberger on Pandemic Sanctions. fair.org Media…

Trudy Hess (2020-04-09). A Choice between Biden and Trump is no choice at all. peoplesparty.org | IS NO CHOICE AT ALL\" | \"A choice between Biden and Trump is no choice at all: \" | Progressives #DemExit and join forces for a major new party after Bernie Sanders drops out | Detroit, MI — In the wake of Sen. Bernie Sanders suspending his presidential campaign yesterday, the Movement for a People\'s Party and #BernTheDNC are merging and have launched a

Lucas Koerner (2020-04-08). European Left Slams EU Support for Trump\'s Venezuela \'Transition\' Plan. venezuelanalysis.com The European Union took \"positive note\" of Washington\'s initiative.

Jonathan Chun-Hei Cheung, Koon Ngai Lam (2020-04-07). [Correspondence] POCUS in COVID-19: pearls and pitfalls. thelancet.com Danilo Buonsenso and colleagues1 described in their Correspondence how lung ultrasound could replace stethoscopes in the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which could possibly reduce the risk of exposure.1 Indeed, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has an exemplary role in many specialties, especially emergency and critical care medicine. Nevertheless, this technology is still relatively new so we would like to highlight the pearls and pitfalls for POCUS users to use this tool to its full potential and ensure optimal patient care and safety.

VINS (2020-04-06). Senate Bill Challenges Online Encryption, Constitutional Rights to Speech and Privacy. projectcensored.org A Senate bill, the EARN IT Act of 2020, introduced by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in March 2020, appears to revise regulations aimed at preventing online sexual…

Jean-Louis Vincent, Fabio S Taccone (2020-04-06). [Comment] Understanding pathways to death in patients with COVID-19. thelancet.com Since the first cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), were identified in China in December, 2019, we have witnessed increasing numbers of infections and associated deaths worldwide. Although the case fatality rate for SARS-CoV-2 infection (ie, the total number of deaths in patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 divided by the total number of people with a positive test) is not high, given the huge scale of the pandemic, the actual numbers of deaths are considerable.

Paul Dobson (2020-04-06). Venezuela Braces for Migrant Return as Coronavirus Rattles Latin America. venezuelanalysis.com The Caribbean country\'s 159 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 7 deaths is considerably lower than its neighbours' tallies.

Project Censored (2020-04-06). Media Scholar Victor Pickard Explains the Historical Roots of the Current News Crisis. projectcensored.org Mickey\'s guest for the full hour is media scholar and author, Victor Pickard. Pickard is associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss…

Lawrence Wittner (2020-04-05). The Coronavirus Pandemic, Like Other Global Catastrophes, Reveals the Limitations of Nationalism. zcomm.org We live with a profound paradox. Our lives are powerfully affected by worldwide economic, communications, transportation, food supply, and entertainment systems. Yet we continue an outdated faith in the nation-state, with all the divisiveness, competition, and helplessness that faith produces when dealing with planetary problems. As we have seen in recent weeks, the coronavirus, like

CounterSpin (2020-04-03). Bama Athreya on Gig Economy & Covid-19. fair.org Media…

David M G Halpin, Rosa Faner, Oriol Sibila, Joan Ramon Badia, Alvar Agusti (2020-04-03). [Comment] Do chronic respiratory diseases or their treatment affect the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection? thelancet.com Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is an acute respiratory disease that can lead to respiratory failure and death.1 Previous epidemics of novel coronavirus diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), were associated with similar clinical features and outcomes.2 One might anticipate that patients with chronic respiratory diseases, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, would be at increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and more severe present…

VINS (2020-04-03). Capitalism Drains America\'s Blood Banks as Exports Bring in $1.4 Billion. projectcensored.org Hospitals are desperate for blood donors: more than 4,000 blood drives were canceled in the US because of the coronavirus, according to the American Association of Blood Banks. This situation,…

VINS (2020-04-03). Unions Disregard Call for Large Scale Climate Action Strikes. projectcensored.org Students are leading the way with Global Climate Strikes across the country to persuade the government and leaders of the country to take impactful action to remedy the current climate…

Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner (2020-04-02). US Sends Navy Ships to Caribbean in \'Anti-Drug\' Mission Targeting Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com Venezuela denounced an attack on one of its naval vessels in recent days.

Alberto L García-Basteiro, Carlos Chaccour, Caterina Guinovart, Anna Llupià , Joe Brew, Antoni Trilla, Antoni Plasencia (2020-04-02). [Comment] Monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic in the context of widespread local transmission. thelancet.com Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel viral disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019.1 Given the fast spread, the severity of disease, the increasing number of cases outside China, and the number of affected countries, WHO declared the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.2 The availability of reliable surveillance platforms is crucial to monitor the COVID-19 epidemic in a timely manner and to respond with adequate control measures.

Melisa Martinez-Alvarez, Alexander Jarde, Effua Usuf, Helen Brotherton, Mustapha Bittaye, Ahmadou L Samateh, Martin Antonio, Joan Vives-Tomas, Umberto D\'Alessandro, Anna Roca (2020-04-01). [Comment] COVID-19 pandemic in west Africa. thelancet.com The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, which started in the Hubei province of China in 2019, has now spread to all continents, affecting 177 countries by March 27, 2020.1 Successful efforts in containing the COVID-19 virus in Asia resulted in WHO declaring Europe as the epicentre of the disease on March 13.2 Whether warmer temperatures will slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been a point of much speculation. This hypothesis has led some European countries to produce initial policies relying on decreased transmission rates during the…

Lucas Koerner (2020-03-31). Venezuela Blasts US 'Transition' Plan as 'Tutelage'. venezuelanalysis.com Washington has threatened to \"increase\" crippling sanctions until Caracas accepts the deal.

Gregory A Poland (2020-03-31). [Comment] SARS-CoV-2: a time for clear and immediate action. thelancet.com I have spent a 33-year career studying respiratory RNA viruses, devising vaccine approaches against them, and unravelling the human immune response to these viruses and vaccines, as well as promoting policies to minimise their effects. Over the past 10 weeks, I and many others have been in the thick of explaining what we know about coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses, and extrapolating this knowledge to understand severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to many health-care providers, organisations, media, and lay people.

Susan L Erikson, Leigh Johnson (2020-03-30). [Comment] Will financial innovation transform pandemic response? thelancet.com The mounting death toll from COVID-19 recently prompted The Guardian to declare, \"The World Bank\'s $500m pandemic scheme accused of \'waiting for people to die\'\".1 Similarly, as the number of deaths from Ebola increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), there was outrage in prominent journals. \"The World Bank has the money to fight Ebola but won\'t use it\" wrote Garrett in Foreign Policy.2 Others3—7 too describe the malfeasance of the financial innovation called the pandemic bond. Hailed by former World Bank president Jim Kim as an instrument that \"would rapidly respond to future outbreaks by deliver…

Paul Dobson (2020-03-30). Rosneft Dodges US Sanctions by Transferring Venezuela Operations to Russian State Firm. venezuelanalysis.com Moscow insists that its support for the Venezuelan government and role in its oil industry will remain unchanged.

Ricardo Vaz (2020-03-29). Former Venezuelan General Hands Himself over to US Authorities. venezuelanalysis.com Cliver Alcala had recently confessed to plotting a coup against the Venezuelan government.

Bernie Sanders (2020-03-27). \'The universe is collapsing\'. zcomm.org Bernie Sanders mocks Republicans over coronavirus aid…

CounterSpin (2020-03-27). Mary Grant on Water & Covid-19, David Cay Johnston on the Last Bailout. fair.org Media…

Vernon J Lee, Marc Ho, Chen Wen Kai, Ximena Aguilera, David Heymann, Annelies Wilder-Smith (2020-03-27). [Comment] Epidemic preparedness in urban settings: new challenges and opportunities. thelancet.com In recent decades, many emerging infectious diseases have been occurring at an increasing scale and frequency—i.e. Ebola virus disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian and pandemic influenza, Middle-East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the recently emerged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The outbreaks of these diseases resulted in wide ranging socioeconomic consequences, including loss of lives and disruption to trade and travel. Preparedness is a crucial investment because its cost is small compared with the unmitigated impact of a health emergency.

Ricardo Vaz (2020-03-27). [UPDATED] Venezuela Registers First Coronavirus Deaths. venezuelanalysis.com There are 113 diagnosed cases as of Friday evening.

Kevin Bryan Lo, Peter A McCullough, Janani Rangaswami (2020-03-26). [Correspondence] Antihypertensive drugs and risk of COVID-19? thelancet.com Lei Fang and colleagues1 postulate that because severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) binds to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor to facilitate host cell entry,2,3 disease severity and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) might be increased in patients taking angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, because the ACE2 receptor might be upregulated with use of ACEIs and ARBs.

Richard Armitage, Laura B Nellums (2020-03-26). [Correspondence] Considering inequalities in the school closure response to COVID-19. thelancet.com As COVID-19 is declared a pandemic and several countries declare nationwide school closures, these measures are affecting hundreds of millions of children.1 More countries are entering delay and mitigation phases of pandemic control, with an urgent need for proactive and multifaceted responses addressing children\'s social, economic, and health needs to avoid widening disparities and honour commitments to the UN Convention on Child Rights and Sustainable Development Goals.2…

Lei Fang, George Karakiulakis, Michael Roth (2020-03-26). [Correspondence] Antihypertensive drugs and risk of COVID-19? — Authors\' reply. thelancet.com We thank Joshua Brown, Kevin Lo and colleagues, and Christopher Tignanelli and colleagues for their responses to our Correspondence1, and we welcome the opportunity to reply.

Felix Chua, Darius Armstrong-James, Sujal R Desai, Joseph Barnett, Vasileios Kouranos, Onn Min Kon, Ricardo José, Rama Vancheeswaran, Michael R Loebinger, Joyce Wong, Maria Teresa Cutino-Moguel, Cliff Morgan, Stephane Ledot, Boris Lams, Wing Ho Yip, Leski Li, Ying Cheong Lee, Adrian Draper, Sze Shyang Kho, Elisabetta Renzoni, Katie Ward, Jimstan Periselneris, Sisa Grubnic, Marc Lipman, Athol U Wells, Anand Devaraj (2020-03-25). [Comment] The role of CT in case ascertainment and management of COVID-19 pneumonia in the UK: insights from high-incidence regions. thelancet.com Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the seventh pathogenic human coronavirus to be identified and the third with a predilection for causing potentially fatal pneumonia, after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection is highly transmissible but has a relatively low death rate (1 ∑0—3 ∑5%), except in older people (aged >70 years) with comorbidities.1,2 It is estimated that 15—20% of people infected develop severe pneumonia and 5—10% require critical care.

Maimuna S Majumder, Kenneth D Mandl (2020-03-24). [Comment] Early in the epidemic: impact of preprints on global discourse about COVID-19 transmissibility. thelancet.com Since it was first reported by WHO in Jan 5, 2020, over 80‚Äà000 cases of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been diagnosed in China, with exportation events to nearly 90 countries, as of March 6, 2020.1 Given the novelty of the causative pathogen (named SARS-CoV-2), scientists have rushed to fill epidemiological, virological, and clinical knowledge gaps—resulting in over 50 new studies about the virus between January 10 and January 30 alone.2 However, in an era where the immediacy of information has become an expectation of decision makers and the general public alike, many of th…

Yongwen Luo, Kai Yin (2020-03-24). [Comment] Management of pregnant women infected with COVID-19. thelancet.com Since December, 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, has become a global public health threat.1 On Feb 28, 2020, WHO upgraded their assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level. By March 10, 2020, 116‚Äà166 cases have been reported globally, causing 4088 deaths. The epidemic has spread to 118 countries around the world.2…

Michael Gormley, Thomas J Aspray, David A Kelly (2020-03-23). [Correspondence] COVID-19: mitigating transmission via wastewater plumbing systems. thelancet.com By its very design, the wastewater plumbing system is a harbinger of pathogenic microorganisms with, under some circumstances, the potential to enable airborne transmission of viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Yu Chen, Lanjuan Li (2020-03-23). [Comment] SARS-CoV-2: virus dynamics and host response. thelancet.com Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 100‚Äà000 patients globally.1 COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has a case-fatality rate of 2 ∑3%, with higher rates among elderly patients and patients with comorbidities.2 Person-to-person transmission is efficient, with multiple clusters reported. Clinically, patients with COVID-19 present with respiratory symptoms, which is very similar to the presentation of other respiratory virus infections.

CounterSpin (2020-03-20). Jim Naureckas on Covid-19, Dana Brown on Public Ownership of Pharmaceuticals. fair.org Media…

Lilly Dragnev (2020-03-20). Peace Action Supports Wyden-Klobuchar Bill to Protect Democracy and Ensure Safe Elections. peaceaction.org Statement of Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action, on the introduction of the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act (NDEBA) by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). This bill would help ensure that elections can take place in a safe and secure way throughout the pandemic and beyond. March 19, 2020 Peace Action …

Danilo Buonsenso, Davide Pata, Antonio Chiaretti (2020-03-20). [Correspondence] COVID-19 outbreak: less stethoscope, more ultrasound. thelancet.com In their Correspondence in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Jonathan Cheung and colleagues stressed the need to ensure staff safety in the airway management of patients with 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).1 This safety should be guaranteed from the patient\'s first assessment. In fact, maintaining the safety of the doctor, who meets many people during his daily activity, avoids the spread of the disease to other patients and the possible creation of new epidemic outbreaks. However, patients with fever and respiratory symptoms do still need to be seen.

Shuo Feng, Chen Shen, Nan Xia, Wei Song, Mengzhen Fan, Benjamin J Cowling (2020-03-20). [Comment] Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic. thelancet.com Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that caused coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the use of face masks has become ubiquitous in China and other Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan. Some provinces and municipalities in China have enforced compulsory face mask policies in public areas; however, China\'s national guideline has adopted a risk-based approach in offering recommendations for using face masks among health-care workers and the general public.

Michael A Matthay, J Matthew Aldrich, Jeffrey E Gotts (2020-03-20). [Comment] Treatment for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome from COVID-19. thelancet.com In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Kollengode Ramanathan and colleagues1 provide excellent recommendations for the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients with respiratory failure from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The authors describe pragmatic approaches to the challenges of delivering ECMO to patients with COVID-19, including training health-care personnel, resolving equipment and facilities issues, implementing systems for infection control and personal protection, providing overall support for health-care staff, and mitiga…

Oriol Mitjà , Bonaventura Clotet (2020-03-19). [Correspondence] Use of antiviral drugs to reduce COVID-19 transmission. thelancet.com As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads, efforts are being made to reduce transmission via standard public health interventions based on isolation of cases and tracing of contacts. In their modelling study, Joel Hellewell and colleagues1 predict that such a strategy could contribute to reducing the overall size of an outbreak, but will still be insufficient to achieve outbreak control of COVID-19 when the basic reproduction number (R0) is higher than 1 ∑5 or the proportion of contacts traced is lower than 80%.

Ashleigh R Tuite, Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, David Fisman (2020-03-19). [Correspondence] Estimation of COVID-19 outbreak size in Italy. thelancet.com Italy is currently experiencing an epidemic of COVID-19 which emerged in the Lombardy region.1 During the interval between Feb 25—29, 2020, we identified 46 cases of COVID-19 reported in 21 countries in Europe, Africa, North America, and South America that were either in individuals with recent travel from Italy, or who had presumed infection by a traveller from Italy.2 In six cases, in four of the affected countries (Switzerland, France, Austria, and Croatia), land travel was a likely route of introduction, or was documented to have been the route of introduction.

Marzia Lazzerini, Giovanni Putoto (2020-03-18). [Correspondence] COVID-19 in Italy: momentous decisions and many uncertainties. thelancet.com On March 10, at 00: 30 h, the official news was posted on the website of the Italian Ministry of Health: a new decree effective until at least April 3 limits the movement of individuals in the whole Italian national territory unless strictly motivated (in written form) by reasons of work or health. Schools, museums, cinemas, theatres, and any other social, recreational, or cultural centre must stay closed. Any gathering in public spaces is forbidden, including sporting events and funerals. Most shops must stay closed.

Lilly Dragnev (2020-03-13). Latest U.S. Military Strikes Are as Reckless as they are Cruel. peaceaction.org Washington, D.C. — March 12, 2020 — In response to reports that the U.S. has carried out five airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq, Jon Rainwater, Executive Director of Peace Action, released the following statement: \"At a time of one of the greatest global challenges of our lifetimes, it is shocking that the Trump …

thelancet (2020-03-12). [Corrections] Correction to Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e123—33. thelancet.com NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)—Americas Working Group. Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys. Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e123—33. In this Article, members of the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)—Americas Working Group have been indexed as authors in PubMed. This correction has been made as of March 12, 2020.

Paul Kawika Martin (2020-03-11). Congress Sends Bipartisan Bill to Trump Rebuking Iran War. peaceaction.org Washington, D.C. — March 11, 2020 — In response to the House passing the bipartisan bill — S.J.Res.68 — that would thwart President Trump from going to war with Iran and end any current hostilities, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs at Peace Action, released the following statement: \"Both chambers and …

Yonghong Xiao, Mili Estee Torok (2020-03-05). [Comment] Taking the right measures to control COVID-19. thelancet.com The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019, has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by WHO.1 By March 2, 2020, 80‚Äà026 confirmed cases had been reported in China, causing 2009 deaths, and the epidemic had spread to 25 countries around the world.2 On Jan 20, 2020, China declared the disease a second-class infectious disease but has introduced management measures for a first-class infectious disease (considered the most dangerous category of infection).

Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, José Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa, Mzia Kutateladze, Sà∂ren Gatermann, Mario Corbellino (2020-03-05). [Comment] A phage-based decolonisation strategy against pan-resistant enterobacterial strains. thelancet.com An outbreak of carbapenemase-producing and colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was reported in north-east Germany in 2019.1 The alert raised by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Oct 28, 2019,1 emphasised that a pandrug-resistant K pneumoniae clone had spread in three hospitals and one rehabilitation clinic, with specimens recovered from 17 patients (six infected and 11 colonised).1 The strain showed a broad resistance pattern to most antibiotics; it was resistant to all beta-lactams (including ceftazidime-avibactam) because of co-production of two carbapenemases, NDM-1 and OXA-48.

Alena Kamenshchikova, Petra F G Wolffs, Christian J P A Hoebe, Klasien Horstman (2020-03-05). [Comment] Transdisciplinary work against antimicrobial resistance. thelancet.com In 2015, WHO issued a Global Action Plan emphasising One Health as an essential approach to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).1 One Health aims to bridge human, animal, and environmental sectors to address shared health concerns.2 One of the gaps in knowledge articulated by the Global Action Plan is scant understanding of social science and behaviour. In that context, One Health offers a potential for transdisciplinary collaborations, including between social and biomedical disciplines. WHO states that the role of social sciences in the One Health approach to AMR is dedicated to support effective antimicrobia…

Marlies Wijsenbeek (2020-03-05). [Comment] Progress in the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis. thelancet.com Pulmonary fibrosis encompasses a wide range of fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) with different underlying causes. In the past two decades, most focus has been on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the most prevalent and relentlessly progressive type of fibrosing ILD.1,2 For other forms of fibrosing ILD, data on the proportion of patients who develop progressive pulmonary fibrosis are still scarce and depend on the disease studied and criteria used.3 Guidelines seem dedicated to assessing the likelihood of IPF versus another fibrosing ILD, as treatment, trial options, and prognosis differ.

Hai Nguyen Thanh, Truong Nguyen Van, Huong Ngo Thi Thu, Binh Nghiem Van, Binh Doan Thanh, Ha Phung Thi Thu, Anh Nguyen Thi Kieu, Nhung Nguyen Viet, Guy B Marks, Greg J Fox, Thu-Anh Nguyen (2020-03-04). [Correspondence] Outbreak investigation for COVID-19 in northern Vietnam. thelancet.com Two Vietnamese adults returned to their home province of Vinh Phuc in northern Vietnam on Jan 17, 2020, from Wuhan, China, where they had been living since Nov 15, 2019, for a business trip. They presented with mild respiratory symptoms to their local health facilities at 4 days and 8 days, respectively, after arrival in Vinh Phuc. Both individuals were initially placed into respiratory isolation in hospital. Case 1 tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative organism of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), on Jan 30, 2020, and remained in isolation until recove…

Gabriel Yan, Chun Kiat Lee, Lawrence T M Lam, Benedict Yan, Ying Xian Chua, Anita Y N Lim, Kee Fong Phang, Guan Sen Kew, Hazel Teng, Chin Hong Ngai, Li Lin, Rui Min Foo, Surinder Pada, Lee Ching Ng, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah (2020-03-04). [Correspondence] Covert COVID-19 and false-positive dengue serology in Singapore. thelancet.com Dengue and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are difficult to distinguish because they have shared clinical and laboratory features.1,2 We describe two patients in Singapore with false-positive results from rapid serological testing for dengue, who were later confirmed to have severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, the causative virus of COVID-19.

Rui Huang, Juan Xia, Yuxin Chen, Chun Shan, Chao Wu (2020-02-28). [Correspondence] A family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China. thelancet.com Human infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global health concern.1,2 Currently, human-to-human transmission of the virus accounts for most infections worldwide.3 We report a family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China.

Paul A Gastañaduy, Umesh D Parashar (2020-02-20). [Comment] Efficient transmission of viral gastroenteritis in Dutch households. thelancet.com Community cohorts of acute gastroenteritis, such as the one presented by Franke Quee and colleagues1 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, provide a crucial opportunity to understand the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of different enteric viruses that could be targeted to prevent diarrhoea in vulnerable populations.

Jason Ditz (2020-02-20). Turkey Kills Over 50 Syrian Troops, Russian Warplanes Intervene to Halt Offensive. theantimedia.com Russia called the situation a \"worst case scenario.\"

Bo Xu, Moritz U G Kraemer, Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group (2020-02-19). [Correspondence] Open access epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak. thelancet.com Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly across China, and as of Feb 16, 2020, had been reported in 26 countries globally. The availability of accurate and robust epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data early in an epidemic is important to guide public health decision-making.1 Consistent recording of epidemiological information is important to understand transmissibility, risk of geographic spread, routes of transmission, and risk factors for infection, and to provide the baseline for epidemiological modelling that can inform planning of response and containment efforts to reduce the burden…

Ensheng Dong, Hongru Du, Lauren Gardner (2020-02-19). [Correspondence] An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time. thelancet.com In December, 2019, a local outbreak of pneumonia of initially unknown cause was detected in Wuhan (Hubei, China), and was quickly determined to be caused by a novel coronavirus,1 namely severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak has since spread to every province of mainland China as well as 27 other countries and regions, with more than 70‚Äà000 confirmed cases as of Feb 17, 2020.2 In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online interactive dashboard, hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Univ…

Lena M Biehl, Maria J G T Vehreschild (2020-02-19). [Comment] Contact precautions: no benefits, no indication. thelancet.com In view of the global increase in multidrug-resistant bacteria, applying contact precautions during the care of affected patients seems, at first, a rational approach to decrease the spread of these organisms. Increasing the distance between sources of multidrug-resistant organisms and potential recipients and using disposable equipment, such as gloves and gowns, for any contact with the patient and their environment might appear to be logical and harmless precautions. However, as a growing body of evidence has shown, contact precautions do harm.

Graham H Bothamley, Viktoria Spong (2020-02-18). [Comment] Face-mask sampling or sputum to diagnose lung tuberculosis? thelancet.com More than a third of people estimated to have tuberculosis in 2018 were undiagnosed or detected but not notified.1 In India, a review of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme in 2013 estimated that 72% of individuals with tuberculosis reached a diagnostic centre, 60% were diagnosed, and 53% registered for treatment.2 To improve this situation, people who fear they might have tuberculosis should have access to cheap diagnostic tests, which can be posted or otherwise delivered to a laboratory and that provide sufficient information so the individual can receive the result and begin treatment if needed…

Jason Ditz (2020-02-17). DOJ Investigating Former CIA Director\'s Role in Russiagate. theantimedia.com The Justice Department is investigating the role of John Brennan in the assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Alberto Novaes Ramos, Jorg Heukelbach, Maria Leide Wand-Del-Rey Oliveira (2020-02-14). [Comment] A conditional cash transfer programme in Brazil improves leprosy treatment outcomes. thelancet.com Despite advances in the past three decades in implementing multidrug therapy against leprosy, by the end of 2018 approximately 210‚Äà000 new leprosy cases globally have been reported to WHO.1 Brazil, in particular, has a high burden of neglected tropical diseases,2 including leprosy. The country has an important role in generating scientific evidence to achieve leprosy control, as it accounts for the second highest number of new leprosy cases worldwide notified by a single country. There have been about 30‚Äà000 new cases notified in Brazil in 2018, representing 93% of all case…

Richard Beasley, James Harper, Matthew Masoli (2020-02-14). [Comment] Anti-interleukin-5 therapy in patients with severe asthma: from clinical trials to clinical practice. thelancet.com The development of monoclonal antibody therapy targeting the type 2 inflammatory pathway and the application of personalised medicine through the identification and management of treatable traits represent two major advances in the management of asthma within recent decades. These two approaches are intricately linked. Biomarkers are used to identify patients with a type-2-predominant endotype and select the likely responders to such therapeutic regimens. However, uncertainties exist that limit application in clinical practice.

Bernie Sanders (2020-02-08). Hasan Sits Down With Bernie Sanders. zcomm.org Interview on aging and retirement in America…

Strategic Culture (2020-02-08). US Deploys \'Mini-Nukes\' in Deplorable Threat to World Peace. theantimedia.com These so-called \"mini-nukes\" represent—despite the diminutive-sounding name—an increased risk of nuclear war.

Tyler Durden (2020-02-08). Iraq and Russia Prepare to Boost Military Ties as US Threatens Sanctions. theantimedia.com Iraq and Russia are preparing for deepening military coordination.

Middle East Eye (2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of \"making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians.\"

Venezuela Analysis (2020-02-06). Embassy Protection Collective: \"We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law\" theantimedia.com In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.

Middle East Eye (2020-02-06). Turkey Gives Assad Deadline to Pull Back or Face Military Action. theantimedia.com Turkey has given the Syrian government until the end of this month to withdraw from recently seized territory in Idlib province.

Jason Ditz (2020-02-05). Trump Says War With Iran Was \"Closer Than You Thought\" Last Month. theantimedia.com Trump told reporters that the U.S. came \"closer than you thought\" to war with Iran last month.

Claudia A Daubenberger (2020-02-04). [Comment] Towards protective immune responses against malaria in pregnant women. thelancet.com Plasmodium falciparum infection was estimated to affect around 11 million pregnancies in 2018 in 38 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Malaria-associated maternal anaemia is a major driver of low birthweight in newborn babies and WHO have estimated that malaria infections in pregnancy have resulted in an estimated 872‚Äà000 babies born with low birthweight in 2018.1 Low birthweight results in a higher risk of death, stunting, and poor cognitive development later in life.2 WHO recommends a combination of insecticide-treated nets and the use of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with ma…

Tyler Durden (2020-02-04). Biden Threatens Lawsuit to Halt Release of Real Iowa Caucus Results. theantimedia.com American democracy—ain\'t it grand?>