COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus.
COVID-19 is far from over, not because it cannot be stopped but because it cannot be stopped in a profit-driven society. The same can be said for climate change, environmental destruction, pollution, poverty, and war.
Intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody. "And it's cheap, a dollar, dollar fifty a dose. You're not going to get less expensive than that." An Indian company is already producing 100 million doses a month.
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NYC teachers and nurses shine a light on the state of schools and hospitals as we near two years of the pandemic. Can workplace organizing stave off collapse and win a transformative political agenda?
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has a national Restaurant Organizing Project that has helped support unemployed restaurant workers throughout the pandemic. The aim is to organize workers in the industry to reshape it in the long run.
Hollywood’s guilds and unions saved the film and TV business in 2021.
The announcement offers cautious hope to other countries grappling with the fast-spreading variant. The U.S. hits yet another record for new daily virus cases.
In reference to the cynical Nazi slogan Arbeit Macht Frei – Work Makes You Free that the SS had placed at the entrance of Auschwitz, Germany’s present-day anti-vaxxers use the slogan, Vaccinating Makes You Free – in German: Impfen Macht Frei.
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The new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed.
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