[World Report] Venezuelan migrants \"struggling to survive\" amid COVID-19
Joe Parkin Daniels | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Humanitarian organisations are concerned that border closures and health-care shortages are amplifying the challenges posed by COVID-19. Joe Parkin Daniels reports from Bogotá.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30718-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Fears grow that coronavirus is taking hold among immigrants in US custody as three children test positive
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
Adult and child detainees living in cramped quarters, herded into cafeterias and denied basic sanitation are facing the very real possibility of an escalated rate of contagion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/chil-m28.html

[Correspondence] COVID-19 cacophony: is there any orchestra conductor?
Antoine Flahault | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
The first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is currently invading the world, and several countries are now struggling to fight it or trying to delay its start to help smooth its peak size for the purpose of lowering morbidity and mortality, and thereby reduce the overall tension on their health-care system. China\'s first major outbreaks of COVID-19 happened in January, 2020. Then South Korea, Iran, and Italy entered into this Ravel\'s Bolero-like epidemic in late February and early March, 2020, and many other countries are preparing to play the same rhythmic pattern in the coming days and weeks.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30491-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] WHO launches crowdfund for COVID-19 response
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
For the first time, WHO is asking the general public and private donors for support. The project is a test run for the WHO Foundation, to be launched later this year. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30719-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] COVID-19: learning from experience
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Over the past 2 weeks, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has marched relentlessly westward. On March 13, WHO said that Europe was now the centre of the pandemic. A few days later, deaths in Italy surpassed those in China. Iran and Spain had also reported over 1000 deaths as of March 23, and many other European countries and the USA reported increasing numbers of cases, heralding an imminent wave of fatalities. Following the sweep of COVID-19 is a series of dramatic containment measures that reflect the scale of the threat posed by the pandemic.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30686-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Offline: COVID-19 and the NHS–\"a national scandal\"
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
\"When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.\" So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unprecedented, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the cause. The UK Government\'s Contain–Delay–Mitigate–Research strategy failed. It failed, in part, because ministers didn\'t follow WHO\'s advice to \"test, test, test\" every suspected case. They didn\'t isolate and quarantine. They didn\'t contact trace. These basic principles of public health and infectious disease control were ignored, for reasons that r…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30727-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Commentary] A systems approach to preventing and responding to COVID-19
Declan Terence Bradley, Mariam Abdulmonem Mansouri, Frank Kee, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
A novel zoonotic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in a pandemic of respiratory infection [1,2]. COVID-19 has provoked restrictive infection control measures, social and economic disruption, and expressions of racism [3]. Systems thinking can help policymakers understand and influence the spread of infection and its multifaceted consequences across the community since society is itself a complex adaptive system [4]. It can provide a framework to look beyond the chain of infection and better understand the multiple implications of decisions and (in)actions in face of such a complex situation involving many inte…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30069-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Learning the lessons of Chernobyl: time is running out
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Unit number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, causing radiation injuries to hundreds of people within a couple of weeks. High levels of radiation affected clean-up workers (liquidators) involved in the emergency response, more than 500‚Äà000 liquidators involved in later decontamination and containment, and the general population in the surrounding Soviet states. 116‚Äà000 people were evacuated, 220‚Äà000 were permanently relocated, and a 30 km exclusion zone still exists around the plant.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30687-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] The suffragette surgeons of Endell Street
Wendy Moore | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
When war swept through Europe in August, 1914, more than 1000 medical men were mobilised with the British Army to France and several hundred more male doctors signed up to support the Allied war effort. Dozens of British women doctors volunteered their services too. On Aug 14, 1914, just 10 days after Britain declared war on Germany, the UK\'s Association of Registered Medical Women compiled a list of more than 60 members who declared themselves \"willing to serve\". Yet their help was bluntly declined.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30641-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Why WHO needs a feminist economic agenda
Asha Herten-Crabb, Sara E Davies | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
In September, 2019, Alan Donnelly and Ilona Kickbusch called for a chief economist at WHO.1 Such a position, they argued, would enable WHO to better advocate for greater recognition of, and thus action on, the interdependency of health and the economy. We support this proposal: recognition of the interdependence of health and the economy is vital for WHO to achieve its mandate: \"the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health…without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition\".
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30110-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Despair, democracy, and the failures of American capitalism
Michael Marmot | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
A third of the children who used to ride the number 6 bus to school in Yamhill, OR, USA, in the 1970s died before their time, mostly by suicide or from drugs, alcohol, or reckless accidents. Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times, is one of the survivors. He recalls one family of five siblings, four of whom succumbed as adults: Farlan died of liver failure from drink and drugs; Rogena died of hepatitis linked to drug use; Zealan burned to death in a house fire while passed out drunk; and Nathan blew himself up cooking meth.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30640-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] PrEP finally approved on NHS in England
Tony Kirby | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
After years of wrangling, pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention will finally be available on the National Health Service in England. Tony Kirby reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30720-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Building on the PrEP victory
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
On March 15, the UK Department of Health and Social Care announced funding to make pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication available on the National Health Service in England for HIV prevention. This decision will be met, finally, with a sense of achievement by HIV activists and care providers, who have fought long and hard to make tenofovir-based PrEP drugs widely accessible in the UK, 8 years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved them and more than 4 years after WHO recommended their use for people at high risk of acquiring HIV.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30688-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Leadership bid
Aarathi Prasad | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
The Perfect Candidate, director Haifaa Al-Mansour\'s second film based in Saudi Arabia, opens with a scene of an old man on a stretcher, bloodied and groaning after a collision with a truck brings him to the only emergency room in the area. Once the under-resourced clinic staff have heaved him through the only route into the building–a mud-clogged and flooded road–he opens his eyes to what for him is an even greater horror: the face of the only doctor qualified to treat him. Through her niqab, a pair of determined eyes examine him, as Dr Maryam expertly turns the patient\'s body to palpate his spine.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30637-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Leadership changes at USAID
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Mark Green, the respected head of the US Agency for International Development, has resigned. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30721-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Reduction in global alcohol-attributable harm unlikely after setback at WHO Executive Board
Sally Casswell, Jàºrgen Rehm | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
A decision emerged after many hours of informal consultation at the WHO Executive Board in February, 2020, on the next steps for global governance of harmful use of alcohol. Clear evidence of increased alcohol consumption and attributable harm in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs),1 and predictions of more harm to come if effective policy is not adopted,2 led a group of representatives from LMICs to propose a working group \"to review and propose the feasibility of developing an international instrument for alcohol control\".
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30476-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Webinar: Decarceration in the time of COVID – 19 with Ivette Ale from JusticeLA
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/25/18831822.php

Webinar: Coronavirus: Time to End US Sanctions on Iran
Peace Action Massachusetts | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
Online webinar via ZOOM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/25/18831820.php

Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm
Kathy Kelly | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
Particularly now, with intense focus on U.S. health care, it\'s timely to recognize that in the past five years U.S. supported Gulf Coalition airstrikes bombed Yemen\'s health care facilities 83 times…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/vigil-for-peace-in-yemen-a-new-norm/

Kroger warehouse workers walk out in Memphis over coronavirus concerns
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
About 400 Kroger warehouse workers in Memphis walked off their jobs yesterday to protest mind-numbing work shifts of up to 96 hours a week and unsafe working conditions as COVID-19 spreads through the state of Tennessee.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/krog-m28.html

\'No new patients until release\': WATCH staff protest KIDNAPPING of Haiti hospital chief as Covid-19 takes root in country
rt.com | 2020-03-28
The chief surgeon and director at one of Haiti\'s major hospitals was kidnapped on his way into work, triggering protests from the facility\'s staff, who have refused to take any new patients until the doctor is freed. | The surgeon, Dr Jerry Bitar, was abducted soon after leaving his home for the Bernard Mevs hospital in Haiti\'s capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday, an administrator at the facility told Reuters. Crowds gathered outside the hospital to demand Bitar\'s release, chanting slogans and declining treatment for any new arrivals. | \"Hospital staff decided not to take any new cases for the time being,\" sai…
rt.com/news/484336-haiti-hospital-kidnapping-coronavirus/

No Mercy even in a Pandemic
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/no-mercy-even-in-a-pandemic/

In a Plague Year, Trump Ratchets up Tensions with Iran and Iraq
Reese Erlich | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
Trump can continue his \"maximum pressure campaign\" against Iran and face continued Iraqi attacks on US troops. Or he can back off to focus on domestic concerns and avoid a wider war…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-a-plague-year-trump-ratchets-up-tensions-with-iran-and-iraq/

DOJ Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
Throughout U.S. history, presidents have exploited national emergencies to exceed their constitutional powers…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/doj-seeks-to-exploit-coronavirus-emergency-to-detain-people-indefinitely/

University of California graduate students need a socialist political strategy
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, striking University of California graduate students must turn out to the working class in a political struggle for trillions for public health, decent living standards, and public education for all.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/ucgr-m28.html

UK health care assistant: \"There\'s a fear that if we are tested for COVID-19, most of us will come back positive and the NHS will collapse\"
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
A senior health care assistant spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about his experiences at work during the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/ukco-m28.html

Golden Chains may explore the Stolen Legacy of Negro Bar, California
Adopted from ACLU Northern California | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
First elected Treasurer of San Francisco, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. acquired well over 35,000 acres along the \"Gold River\" Rancho Rio de Los Americanos. His \"sudden death\" and burial on May 18, 1848 marked the beginning of the Gold Rush on his land and the establishment of the town Negro Bar, California, today the City of Folsom. \"Slavery and Freedom\" in Negro Hill / Negro Bar Mining District is part of \"Golden Chains\" to be continued…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/26/18831841.php

Alameda County Public Defender Wins COVID-19 Release of More Than 300 Inmates
ACPD | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
OAKLAND, Thursday, March 19

OneWeb files for bankruptcy, unable to secure financing amid coronavirus chaos
rt.com | 2020-03-28
SpaceX rival OneWeb has filed for bankruptcy less than a week after launching another batch of internet satellites, as it failed to raise more funds for its program amid the Covid-19 pandemic. | The London-based venture, as well its affiliates, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, saying that the proceedings are aimed at pursuing \"a sale of its business in order to maximize the value of the company.\" | Since the beginning of the year, OneWeb had been trying to get more investment. The company says that is was close to obtaining the necessary financial support, but talks failed due to market turbulence tr…
rt.com/business/484340-oneweb-files-bankruptcy-coronavirus/

Starbucks Let Critical Time Slip Away Before Taking Action During COVID-19 Pandemic
Ruth Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
A March 26 Buzzfeed News article says of Starbucks, \"the decisions of a company that employs 220,000 people in the US have had far-reaching consequences in the midst of a virus accelerating faster than most public health systems can keep up with.\"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/26/18831845.php

Wuhan reopens subway, allows incoming traffic as it phases out 2-month coronavirus lockdown (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-03-28
The metro in Wuhan, the city where the deadly Covid-19 virus is believed to have originated, has opened its doors to 11 million residents after two months of lockdown. Trains are arriving in the city as life returns to normal. | On Saturday, several subway lines in Wuhan welcomed their first passengers after a 65-day hiatus brought about by the coronavirus outbreak, which has since spread to most of the planet. The number of those infected is nearing 600,000 worldwide. | Some 184 metro stations, equipped with thermal scanners, opened for commuters, who will still have to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
rt.com/news/484338-wuhan-metro-trains-resume/

COVID-19 pandemic spells no truce in US imperialism\'s global aggression
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
Far from declaring a humanitarian truce as COVID-19 threatens the lives of millions, Washington has sought to weaponize the death and disruption spread by the disease.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/usim-m28.html

Ohio, Texas and Mississippi ban abortion under guise of fighting coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
Over the last two weeks Ohio, Texas and Mississippi have effectively banned abortion, claiming that personal protective equipment is needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/abor-m28.html

Australian governments reject calls for lockdown despite rising COVID-19 danger
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
The \"national cabinet\" is determined to keep as many workers as possible on the job in order to shore up corporate profits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/auvi-m28.html

\'We will be where they are\': LA mayor says he expects city to catch up with NYC on coronavirus in DAYS
rt.com | 2020-03-28
A rush of Covid-19 patients will soon swarm Los Angeles\' hospitals, the city\'s mayor warned, noting that a rapid rise in cases has put LA on track to eclipse New York City in under a week. | With California seeing a 26 percent spike in coronavirus patients on Friday alone, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said his city would likely be overwhelmed, with cases doubling every two days, pushing its medical facilities to breaking point. | \"We will be where they are,\" Garcetti said, referring to NYC, the nation\'s hardest-hit city. \"We will have doctors making excruciating decisions. We will be trying to figure out what we do…
rt.com/usa/484339-la-coronavirus-new-york/

DESPUES DE LA PANDEMIA DEL COVID-19 \"EL DIA DESPUES\"
JAIR ALEXANDER OLAVE CALDERON | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
El día en que el mundo supere la guerra biológica que hoy enfrenta, entenderá que el rol del estado debe ser predominante y volver a tomar el control de las instituciones de salud, los servicios públicos, el control mixto de la banca, el absoluto control y manejo de los fondos de pensiones.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/27/18831860.php

Why is the U.S. so exceptionally vulnerable to Covid-19?
Nicolas J.S. Davies | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
Will we finally wake up from our American dream, open our eyes and start learning from our neighbors in other countries, including ones that have different political, economic and healthcare systems than ours?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-is-the-u-s-so-exceptionally-vulnerable-to-covid-19/

Know Your Rights during COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
National Lawyers Guild | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
While the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates public health measures to reduce the impact of the virus on our communities and health care systems, we must be vigilant and resist authoritarian and violent tendencies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/28/18831875.php

Covid-19 cases in Germany surge 6,294 in one day as death toll hits 325
rt.com | 2020-03-28
The number of coronavirus cases in Germany has surged by 6,294 in one day to nearly 50,000, while the death toll jumped by 72 to 325. | The Robert Koch Institute announced a fresh round of alarming statistics on Saturday morning, showing that a total of 48,582 people in Germany are confirmed carriers of the virus. | The federal agency, which is responsible for disease control and prevention in Germany, said that 325 people have died after testing positive for the illness. The figure represents an increase of 72 from Friday\'s tally and it is based on data collected up until midnight on Friday. | The spike in ca…
rt.com/news/484348-germany-covid-19-death-toll/

\'We have many friends in the world\': Italian FM says no ulterior motive to Russian Covid-19 aid, calls it \'act of solidarity\'
rt.com | 2020-03-28
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio brushed aside suggestions that aid from Moscow to combat the coronavirus pandemic came with hidden intentions, stating his country had nothing to fear from Russian assistance. | In an interview with Euronews\' Giorgia Orlandi published on Friday, the reporter pressed Di Maio to reveal the \"real purpose\" behind Moscow\'s mission to deliver medical supplies to the Mediterranean nation, citing amorphous \"doubts\" and \"fears\" that the aid could shift intern…
rt.com/news/484337-italy-fm-russian-aid/

India sees its biggest daily jump in Covid-19 cases as number of infected nears 900
rt.com | 2020-03-28
India\'s confirmed coronavirus cases tally hit 873 on Saturday after the country went into a three-week quarantine in the hope of stopping the spread of the deadly Covid-19 disease. | An additional 149 people tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 873, India\'s Health Ministry said on Saturday. This is the biggest single-day increase the country has seen since the beginning of the outbreak. | India has remained among the states with a relatively low number of officially-reported infections and deaths from the coronavirus. A total of 19 people have died as of Saturday.
rt.com/news/484341-india-covid-cases-increase/

\'Some people will die, that\'s life\': Bolsonaro questions Covid-19 crisis, says deaths in Brazil exaggerated for political purposes
rt.com | 2020-03-28
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has waved off the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, insisting that life goes on. He suggested the death toll in his own country has been overstated for political purposes. | The Brazilian leader has been locking horns with many of the country\'s governors, who have imposed bans on non-essential commerce and continue to accuse Bolsonaro of prioritizing the economy over the lives of his citizens. | \"I\'m sorry, some people will die, they will die, that\'s life,\" Bolsonaro said in an televised interview on Friday. \"You can\'t stop a car factory because of traffic deaths.\" | He remarked…
rt.com/news/484342-brazil-bolsonaro-coronavirus-die-people/

Rouhani says Iran\'s healthcare system ready for Covid-19 peak as it sees more than 3,000 new infections
rt.com | 2020-03-28
President Hassan Rouhani has said that Iran\'s medical infrastructure was prepared to overcome the zenith of the coronavirus pandemic, as the country recorded more than 3,000 new cases and nearly 140 new deaths. | The Iranian leader expressed confidence in his country\'s ability to cope with a possible peak in Covid-19 cases during televized remarks on Saturday. He described Iran\'s medical facilities and personnel as \"strong,\" and predicted that the crisis could come to an end in a few weeks. | Rouhani\'s remarks came as Iran\'s health ministry confirmed 3,076 new infections, bringing the national total to 35,408.
rt.com/news/484354-iran-coronavirus-3000-infections-peak/

WATCH Russian biodefense troops disinfect nursing home in coronavirus-hit Italy
rt.com | 2020-03-28
Experts from Moscow\'s biodefense unit have been deployed at the epicenter of the deadly Covid-19 outbreak in Italy, tasked with disinfecting a nursing home where patients died amid the coronavirus pandemic. | A Russian military biological and chemical protection team was dispatched to the Martino Zanchi nursing home in the city of Bergamo in Italy\'s northern Lombardy region on Friday. | Going from room to room, anti-epidemic specialists in hazmat suits and respirators sprayed disinfectant on all furniture, including beds and mattresses. They also thoroughly disinfected floors, walls and ceilings because traces…
rt.com/news/484343-italy-russia-covid19-response/

Workers remain at risk during New Zealand\'s COVID-19 lockdown
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
A state of emergency has been imposed, parliament suspended and the military placed on standby, but many workers remain at risk of contagion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/28/nzld-m28.html

Webinar: Capitalism is Killing Us! COVID-19 and Wall Street Crash
Workers World Party | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/25/18831825.php

We Must Expand Tricare for Everybody Who Needs It
Jon Walker | zcomm.org | 2020-03-28
We need a solution that can be used even faster than any industry bailout or targeted reinsurance program that has the government take on the insurers\' cost for covering Covid-19 patients…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-must-expand-tricare-for-everybody-who-needs-it/

Spain suffers another record day for Covid-19 deaths as 832 perish
rt.com | 2020-03-28
Spain has recorded another record breaking day for Covid-19 deaths as 832 people died from the disease in 24 hours and the number of cases surged by over 8,000. | Spanish health officials announced on Saturday morning that 5,690 people have now died from the coronavirus in the Mediterranean country and a total of 72,248 people have contracted the illness. | The figure represents an increase of 8,189 confirmed cases on Friday\'s total. | While the shocking statistics are a further reminder of the threat the virus poses they offer evidence that the rate of infection has slowed in Spain. | The jump in cases is a 1…
rt.com/news/484357-spain-death-toll-coronavirus/

As COVID-19 Reaches Santa Rita Jail, Decarceration Becomes More Urgent
Ella Baker Center | indybay.org | 2020-03-28
Oakland, CA

First train with medical supplies for Europe leaves Wuhan as China eases Covid-19 lockdown
rt.com | 2020-03-28
Beijing has resumed its railway freight service between Wuhan and Europe by delivering medical aid to Germany as authorities work to lift strict quarantine measures after the number of new cases Covid-19 dropped. | A train loaded with medical supplies and construction materials has left a station in Wuhan, the capital city of China\'s central Hubei Province, and is set to arrive in the city of Duisburg in Germany in two weeks, Chinese outlet the Global Times reported on Saturday. The delivery will be the first China-EU cargo freight operation from Wuhan since the city was placed under strict quarantine in Janua…
rt.com/news/484344-china-wuhan-first-train/

[World Report] Venezuelan migrants \"struggling to survive\" amid COVID-19
Joe Parkin Daniels | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Humanitarian organisations are concerned that border closures and health-care shortages are amplifying the challenges posed by COVID-19. Joe Parkin Daniels reports from Bogotá.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30718-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] COVID-19: learning from experience
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Over the past 2 weeks, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has marched relentlessly westward. On March 13, WHO said that Europe was now the centre of the pandemic. A few days later, deaths in Italy surpassed those in China. Iran and Spain had also reported over 1000 deaths as of March 23, and many other European countries and the USA reported increasing numbers of cases, heralding an imminent wave of fatalities. Following the sweep of COVID-19 is a series of dramatic containment measures that reflect the scale of the threat posed by the pandemic.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30686-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Offline: COVID-19 and the NHS–\"a national scandal\"
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
\"When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.\" So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unprecedented, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the cause. The UK Government\'s Contain–Delay–Mitigate–Research strategy failed. It failed, in part, because ministers didn\'t follow WHO\'s advice to \"test, test, test\" every suspected case. They didn\'t isolate and quarantine. They didn\'t contact trace. These basic principles of public health and infectious disease control were ignored, for reasons that r…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30727-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19 cacophony: is there any orchestra conductor?
Antoine Flahault | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
The first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is currently invading the world, and several countries are now struggling to fight it or trying to delay its start to help smooth its peak size for the purpose of lowering morbidity and mortality, and thereby reduce the overall tension on their health-care system. China\'s first major outbreaks of COVID-19 happened in January, 2020. Then South Korea, Iran, and Italy entered into this Ravel\'s Bolero-like epidemic in late February and early March, 2020, and many other countries are preparing to play the same rhythmic pattern in the coming days and weeks.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30491-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] WHO launches crowdfund for COVID-19 response
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
For the first time, WHO is asking the general public and private donors for support. The project is a test run for the WHO Foundation, to be launched later this year. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30719-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] The suffragette surgeons of Endell Street
Wendy Moore | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
When war swept through Europe in August, 1914, more than 1000 medical men were mobilised with the British Army to France and several hundred more male doctors signed up to support the Allied war effort. Dozens of British women doctors volunteered their services too. On Aug 14, 1914, just 10 days after Britain declared war on Germany, the UK\'s Association of Registered Medical Women compiled a list of more than 60 members who declared themselves \"willing to serve\". Yet their help was bluntly declined.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30641-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] The suffragette surgeons of Endell Street
Wendy Moore | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
When war swept through Europe in August, 1914, more than 1000 medical men were mobilised with the British Army to France and several hundred more male doctors signed up to support the Allied war effort. Dozens of British women doctors volunteered their services too. On Aug 14, 1914, just 10 days after Britain declared war on Germany, the UK\'s Association of Registered Medical Women compiled a list of more than 60 members who declared themselves \"willing to serve\". Yet their help was bluntly declined.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30641-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Learning the lessons of Chernobyl: time is running out
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Unit number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, causing radiation injuries to hundreds of people within a couple of weeks. High levels of radiation affected clean-up workers (liquidators) involved in the emergency response, more than 500‚Äà000 liquidators involved in later decontamination and containment, and the general population in the surrounding Soviet states. 116‚Äà000 people were evacuated, 220‚Äà000 were permanently relocated, and a 30 km exclusion zone still exists around the plant.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30687-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Leadership bid
Aarathi Prasad | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
The Perfect Candidate, director Haifaa Al-Mansour\'s second film based in Saudi Arabia, opens with a scene of an old man on a stretcher, bloodied and groaning after a collision with a truck brings him to the only emergency room in the area. Once the under-resourced clinic staff have heaved him through the only route into the building–a mud-clogged and flooded road–he opens his eyes to what for him is an even greater horror: the face of the only doctor qualified to treat him. Through her niqab, a pair of determined eyes examine him, as Dr Maryam expertly turns the patient\'s body to palpate his spine.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30637-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Why WHO needs a feminist economic agenda
Asha Herten-Crabb, Sara E Davies | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
In September, 2019, Alan Donnelly and Ilona Kickbusch called for a chief economist at WHO.1 Such a position, they argued, would enable WHO to better advocate for greater recognition of, and thus action on, the interdependency of health and the economy. We support this proposal: recognition of the interdependence of health and the economy is vital for WHO to achieve its mandate: \"the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health…without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition\".
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30110-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Leadership changes at USAID
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Mark Green, the respected head of the US Agency for International Development, has resigned. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30721-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Building on the PrEP victory
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
On March 15, the UK Department of Health and Social Care announced funding to make pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication available on the National Health Service in England for HIV prevention. This decision will be met, finally, with a sense of achievement by HIV activists and care providers, who have fought long and hard to make tenofovir-based PrEP drugs widely accessible in the UK, 8 years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved them and more than 4 years after WHO recommended their use for people at high risk of acquiring HIV.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30688-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Despair, democracy, and the failures of American capitalism
Michael Marmot | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
A third of the children who used to ride the number 6 bus to school in Yamhill, OR, USA, in the 1970s died before their time, mostly by suicide or from drugs, alcohol, or reckless accidents. Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times, is one of the survivors. He recalls one family of five siblings, four of whom succumbed as adults: Farlan died of liver failure from drink and drugs; Rogena died of hepatitis linked to drug use; Zealan burned to death in a house fire while passed out drunk; and Nathan blew himself up cooking meth.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30640-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] PrEP finally approved on NHS in England
Tony Kirby | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
After years of wrangling, pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention will finally be available on the National Health Service in England. Tony Kirby reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30720-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Reduction in global alcohol-attributable harm unlikely after setback at WHO Executive Board
Sally Casswell, Jàºrgen Rehm | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
A decision emerged after many hours of informal consultation at the WHO Executive Board in February, 2020, on the next steps for global governance of harmful use of alcohol. Clear evidence of increased alcohol consumption and attributable harm in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs),1 and predictions of more harm to come if effective policy is not adopted,2 led a group of representatives from LMICs to propose a working group \"to review and propose the feasibility of developing an international instrument for alcohol control\".
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30476-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Trump\'s \"Get back to work\" demagogy aids the spread of the pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-28
Amidst an expanding pandemic, which is still in its early stages, the Trump administration is intensifying its efforts to force a return to work, which would endanger the lives of millions of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/27/pers-m28.html

Rep. Omar Blasts Trump\'s \"American Exceptionalism\" as US Leads in COVID-19 Cases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-27
As much of the United States is under lockdown, the House votes today on a $2 trillion emergency relief package to address the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. It will generate payments to most Americans and includes protections for workers, but it is also a massive bailout for a number of industries and corporations, and the vote comes as a record 3.28 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits. We speak with Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the first Somali American electe…
truthout.org/video/rep-omar-blasts-trumps-american-exceptionalism-as-us-leads-in-covid-19-cases/

U.S. Is #1 in Pandemic: Rep. Omar Blasts Trump for \"Wrong Kind of American Exceptionalism\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-27
As much of the United States is under lockdown, the House votes today on a $2 trillion emergency relief package to address the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. It will generate payments to most Americans and includes protections for workers, but it is also a massive bailout for a number of industries and corporations, and the vote comes as a record 3.28 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits. We speak with Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the first Somali American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one of the first Muslim women in Congress, about the bill, Trump\'s response t…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/rep_ilhan_omar_coronavirus_relief_bill

Turkey evacuates hundreds of migrants from Greek border amid virus pandemic
rt.com | 2020-03-27
Ankara has sent some 6,000 migrants waiting at the Turkish-Greek border to cross into the European Union to cities inside the country, Reuters reported on Friday, citing the Interior Ministry. The move was part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. | Migrants waiting at the border crossing in Edirne province were transported in buses to state guest houses where they would be quarantined, Anadolu news agency reported. They would be moved to other regions in Turkey at the end of the quarantine, it added. | Thousands of migrants had massed at a border crossing with European Union-member Greece after T…
rt.com/newsline/484320-turkey-evacuates-migrants-border/

Migrants in California Are Unprotected Against Covid-19 Effects
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-27
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) Friday denounced that migrants in California are at greater risk of contracting Covid-19 because they lack legal protections. | RELATED: | US Senate Passes $2 Trillion Bill to Front COVID-19 Crisis | A survey of 1,222 Latin Americans, which this NGO carried out between March 12 and 14, revealed that the Covid-19 has worsened the situation of immigrants. | For this reason, CHIRLA asked the Californian authorities to include immigran…
telesurenglish.net/news/us–immigrants-in-california-alone-facing-covid-19-20200327-0006.html

Migrants in Hawaii care for the elderly, the aloha way
news.un.org | 2020-03-27
Migrants are playing an increasingly important role in the provision of health care around the world. The number of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who move from developing countries to take up posts in developed countries is expected to rise as the global population of older persons and children continues to grow.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1060152

DOJ Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-27
Throughout U.S. history, presidents have exploited national emergencies to exceed their constitutional powers. Abraham Lincoln illegally suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. Franklin D. Roosevelt confined people of Japanese descent in internment camps during World War II. And George W. Bush used his post-9/11 \"war on terror\" to launch two illegal wars, mount a program of torture, conduct extensive unlawful surveillance and illegally detain people. | In light of Donald Trump\'s national em…
truthout.org/articles/doj-seeks-to-exploit-coronavirus-emergency-to-detain-people-indefinitely/

Doctors \"Strongly Condemn\" UK Decision to Keep Assange Imprisoned During COVID-19 Pandemic
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-27
Assange\'s treatment in the UK\'s Belmarsh Prison has been so poor that convicted murderers and other high-security inmates had to stage a mass protest to secure his transfer to the hospital wing.
mintpressnews.com/doctors-condemn-uk-decision-keep-assange-imprisoned-during-coronavirus/266112/

COVID-19 Coronavirus: The Crisis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
Michel Chossudovsky discusses his new series of research articles on the \"pandemic\" including, \" COVID-19 Coronavirus \"Fake\" Pandemic: Timeline and Analysis\" and \" Coronavirus COVID-19: \"Made in China\" or \"Made in America\"?, among others. A blockbuster show! | Now …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-crisis/5706741

We won\'t go back to normal, because normal was the problem
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-03-27
It is hard to remember that just a few weeks ago, the planet was in motion. There were protests in Delhi (India) and Quito (Ecuador), eruptions against the old order that ranged from anger at the economic policies of austerity and neoliberalism to frustration with the cultural policies of misogyny and racism. Ingeniously, in Santiago …
mronline.org/2020/03/27/we-wont-go-back-to-normal-because-normal-was-the-problem/

The Italian war-like measures to fight coronavirus spreading: Re-open closed hospitals now
Alessandro Miani, Ernesto Burgio, Prisco Piscitelli, Renato Lauro, Annamaria Colao | thelancet.com | 2020-03-27
As recently highlighted by The Lancet, the Covid-19 outbreak started in Northern Italy has shocked Europe, while it has been questioned if China benefits from an authoritarian advantage in disease response [1,2]. In Italy, after the shutdown of the educational system (schools and Universities will remain closed at least for one month) and the collapse of the touristic sector (90% of travels and reservations cancelled), the Government officially locked down residents of all the region of Milan (Lombardia) and other 11 provinces.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30064-X/fulltext?rss=yes

Webinar: Decarceration in the time of COVID – 19 with Ivette Ale from JusticeLA
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-03-27
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/25/18831822.php

Webinar: Coronavirus: Time to End US Sanctions on Iran
Peace Action Massachusetts | indybay.org | 2020-03-27
Online webinar via ZOOM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/25/18831820.php

Tulsi Gabbard Falls on Her Sword: America\'s Leading Antiwar Voice Is Destroyed by Hillary
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
In American politics, it is not often that one sees an assassination carried out in public, but that is exactly what the Democratic Party establishment did to peace candidate Tulsi Gabbard. She was sidelined right from the beginning of …
globalresearch.ca/tulsi-gabbard-falls-her-sword-america-leading-antiwar-voice-destroyed-hillary/5707766

Uruguay: Cuts in Public Wages to Finance the \'Coronavirus Fund\'
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-27
Uruguay\'s President Luis Lacalle Thursday announced cuts to public officials\' cuts and pensions to finance the \"Coronavirus Fund\", which is intended to pay for the treatment of Covid-19 patients and medical supplies. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Educators Protest Against President Lacalle\'s Bill | That decision implies a cut of 20 percent of the salaries of the president and his ministers. | The remuneration of legislators and directors of public institutions will be reduced in equal magnitude.
telesurenglish.net/news/Uruguay-lacalle-implements-economic-measures-facing-covid-19-20200327-0003.html

Uruguay: Cuts in Public Wages to Finance the \'Coronavirus Fund\'
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-27
Uruguay\'s President Luis Lacalle Thursday announced cuts to public officials\' cuts and pensions to finance the \"Coronavirus Fund\", which is intended to pay for the treatment of Covid-19 patients and medical supplies. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Educators Protest Against President Lacalle\'s Bill | That decision implies a cut of 20 percent of the salaries of the president and his ministers. | The remuneration of legislators and directors of public institutions will be reduced in equal magnitude.
telesurenglish.net/news/Uruguay-lacalle-implements-economic-measures-facing-covid-19-20200327-0003.html

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-03-27
Amazon workers in France, metalworkers in Italy, postal workers in Britain and doctors in Zimbabwe are among those taking job action to protest lack of adequate safety measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/27/work-m27.html

Australia\'s imprisoned refugees plead for release as coronavirus risk increases
wsws.org | 2020-03-27
Detainees have protested at being held \"in a potential death trap in which we have no option or means to protect ourselves.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/27/aref-m27.html

Lockerbie\'s Only Convict May be Exonerated Posthumously
Dr. Mustafa Fetouri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
The only man to be convicted of the infamous Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, died in 2012 and protested his innocence until his final breath. His fellow Libyan and co-defendant, Lamin Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted and is still living …
globalresearch.ca/lockerbie-only-convict-may-exonerated-posthumously/5707798

Nationalize the Airlines
Paris Marx | zcomm.org | 2020-03-27
The airline industry will not survive the coronavirus. Now is the time to nationalize it

Bernie Sanders Voted for Corporate Bailout Bill. \"Hand Outs\" to Big Money, Crumbs for Ordinary Americans
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
Make no mistake. Legislation that should be called the GOP/Dem-Don\'t-Care/CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act is a corporate bailout bill with crumbs for ordinary Americans. | It\'s a bandaid approach to a public health emergency/economic crisis, the latter mostly …
globalresearch.ca/bernie-sanders-voted-corporate-bailout-bill/5707757

Venezuela Dismisses US Justice Department \'Narco-terrorism\' Accusations
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected US drug trafficking accusations against his person and senior members of his government. | In a televised address Thursday evening, Maduro blasted the State Department\'s \"racist cowboy methods\" of offering money for information leading to his …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-dismisses-us-justice-department-narco-terrorism-accusations/5707786

What Trump is Doing in the Middle East While You are Distracted by COVID-19
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-27
And still the virus shrouds Donald Trump\'s mischief in the Middle East. First it was his sly retreat from Iraq; now it\'s his cosy military exercises with the United Arab Emirates

To Fight This Pandemic, We Need to Take Over the Military\'s Resources
Phyllis Bennis | zcomm.org | 2020-03-27
–Not the Other Way Around…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/to-fight-this-pandemic-we-need-to-take-over-the-militarys-resources/

The Senate\'s Coronavirus Relief Package Must be Stopped!
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
The Senate\'s $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package is not fiscal stimulus and it\'s not a lifeline for the tens of millions of working people who have suddenly lost their jobs. It\'s a fundamental restructuring of the US economy designed to …
globalresearch.ca/senate-coronavirus-relief-package-must-stopped/5707727

Western Media Focusses On Big Pharma\'s Search for a Coronavirus Vaccine While Suppressing Coverage of High Dose Intravenus Vitamin C to Save Lives in China
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
Not a day passes without some hyped up media story of how big-pharma is racing to the rescue of humanity with its search for a coronavirus vaccine. There are over 40 companies now searching for a vaccine. Collectively they are …
globalresearch.ca/western-media-talks-big-pharma-search-coronavirus-vaccine-ignoring-use-high-dose-vitamin-c-save-lives-china/5707750

Corona culture: Europe and the new normal
Dennis Broe | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-27
PARIS–After its outbreak in China, Europe had been called the new epicenter of the disease, and particularly Western Europe, where the responses have varied from the new Socialist-Podemos coalition in Spain nationalizing the country\'s industry to a total quarantine in France by the neoliberal Macron, criticized for being three weeks too late. Some predict that …
peoplesworld.org/article/corona-culture-europe-and-the-new-normal/

BJP and Israel: Hindu Nationalism is Ravaging India\'s Democracy
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-27
It was only a matter of time before the anti-Muslim sentiment in India turned violent. A country that has historically prided itself on its diversity and tolerance, and for being \'the largest democracy in the world\' has, in recent years, exhibited the exact opposite qualities

Whither Coronavirus? When Will It End and What Will Happen Along the Way
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
The coronavirus story has generated a number of major subplots. | First is the origin of the virus. Did it occur naturally or was it created in a Chinese, American or Israeli weapons lab? If bioengineered, did it somehow escape or …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-when-end-what-happen-along-way/5707717

\'Are those who bomb towns going to accuse us of terrorism?\' Maduro rips US over \'narco-terrorism\' charge
rt.com | 2020-03-27
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro fired back at the US, which is offering a $15 million bounty for information leading to his arrest, dismissing the narco-terrorism charge as a smear to deflect attention from its coronavirus woes. | Maduro came out swinging after the US Justice Department, in an almost unprecedented move, indicted the president of the Latin American nation on \"narco-terrorism\" charges, claiming that Maduro and over a dozen Venezuelan political and military leaders plotted to \"flood the Unite…
rt.com/news/484219-venezuela-maduro-terrorism-response/

Media Repeat Phony Trump Regime Narco-Terrorism Charges against Maduro
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
Establishment media never miss an opportunity to set the record straight on major issues. | Instead they consistently proliferate state-sponsored Big Lies about designed US adversaries. | The latest exercise in Trump regime mass deception is directed against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro…
globalresearch.ca/media-repeat-phony-trump-regime-narco-terrorism-charges-against-maduro/5707753

\"Total System Failure\": Congress Pushes $2 Trillion Pandemic Bill. Will Dems Allow \"Corporate Coup\"?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-27
We continue our look at the massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package

When Home Isn\'t Safe: Shelter-in-Place Is Putting Domestic Violence Survivors in a \"Dire Situation\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-27
As schools shut, public spaces close, and all but essential workers are ordered to stay indoors under shelter-in-place orders across the U.S. and globe, domestic violence services are scrambling to help vulnerable people navigate home lives that they say are increasingly unsafe during the pandemic. What happens when you\'re trapped at home with your abuser? \"This is really a dire situation for a lot of victims across the country,\" says Katie Ray-Jones, chief executive officer of the National Domestic Violence Hotline and loveisrespect.
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/domestic_violence_coronavirus_katie_ray_jones

Video: Mighty \"Moderate Rebels\" Pressure Turkish Army in Idlib. US-led Coalition Is Crumbling
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
The notorious \"moderate rebels\" have blown up a bridge on the M4 highway in southern Idlib as part of their effort to sabotage the creation of a security zone in the area. The Kafr bridge is located near the town …
globalresearch.ca/video-moderate-rebels-pressure-turkish-army-idlib-us-led-coalition-crumbling/5707714

Bolsonaro Needs Help to Overcome Coronavirus Pandemic Despite Loyalty to Trump
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-27
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after weeks of downplaying the potential seriousness of the coronavirus is beginning to lose popularity for his irrationality, especially since describing the coronavirus as a \"fantasy\" and a \"minor flu.\" While all South American countries, with …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-needs-help-overcome-coronavirus-pandemic-despite-loyalty-trump/5707520