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Che envisioned a new medicine, with doctors who would serve the greatest number of people with preventive care and public awareness of hygiene.

It is the cardinal sin of the American health system in a single surgery: save on preventive care, pay big on the backend, and let the chronically sick and underprivileged feel the extreme consequences.

Instead of increasing public oversight, California has relaxed it, allowing private nursing homes to cut staffing. This is a recipe for disaster.

We must recognize that we live on the shoulders of ancestors who have survived through crisis and devastation. We must step up in ways that will enable history to judge this moment as not only a tragic event, but as a catalyst for a global awakening.

Palestinians do not only have to fear loss of life, a collapsed health care system and economy: They also have to fear Israel’s daily actions in occupied territory.

Even as the federal worker-safety agency has been inundated with complaints, it has rolled back safety standards and virtually eliminated non-health care workplaces from government protection.

A coronavirus outbreak at a Heartland Alliance facility on Chicago’s South Side may be the largest outbreak of the virus in any shelter for immigrant youth in the country.

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This is not the time to pull up the (national) hatches and speak simply of the fight against the virus inside our own borders.