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Prabhat Patnaik, March 22, 2020 The coronavirus attack has so far been much less deadly than the Spanish flu of a century ago. That had affected 500 million people worldwide, about 27 per cent of the world’s population of the time, and had a death rate of about 10 per cent among those affected. (Estimates…
Vijay Prashad & Subin Dennis, March 27, 2020 K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened a high-level meeting to discuss the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China….
Courtesy: The Wire At 9 am on what he said was the ninth day of the national lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians to give him nine minutes of their time for the fight against COVID-19. These nine minutes, he said, are needed at 9 pm on April 5 (in case you missed it,…
Jeff Mackler The U.S. Senate’s March 25, $2 trillion 97-0, COVID-19 corporate bailout vote gifted the ruling rich an amount never exceeded in world history. The overwhelming portion went directly to the coffers of the billionaire elite for whom the lives of literally millions of Americans are subordinate to their horror at seeing their casino…
Ann Garrison The Pentagon has ordered all its commands, bases, and personnel to stop reporting statistics on COVID-19 infections and deaths in the US military, citing “operational security concerns.” EUCOMM in Stuttgart, Germany, released a statement that “DoD will release numbers through their official platforms.” This comes after: Infections in the military increased by 60%…
Sharon Kyle Coronavirus Testing In 2017, as the Trump administration transitioned into the White House, the Obama administration handed over the reins of power along with lots of advice and warnings. Among them was a warning about the dangers of pandemics. In fact, there was an entire Pandemic Response Team that was part of the…
Nicolas J.S. Davies The United States has become the new center of the global coronavirus pandemic, with over 80,000 cases, more than China or Italy. More than a thousand Americans have already died, but this is surely only the very beginning of this deadly collision between the U.S.’s exceptionally inadequate public healthcare system and a…
V.T. Padmanabhan With cases reported from over 100 countries, corona virus disease of 2019 (covid-19) is a pandemic now. The disease is caused by the virus called SARS-Cov-2, which is thought to have jumped from the flying mammal bats, sold at the illegal wildlife market inside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, the…
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