A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong?
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the stark disparity between Covid 19 deaths in the U.S. and South Korea. With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Gibney exposes a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of Presidential leadership.
Editors at the world’s leading medical journal said the Trump administration “took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”
Vietnam dare to win, dare to beat the Corona Virus!
The time for political games, half-measures, and brinkmanship has long passed. Without significant and sustained congressional action, 30 million to 40 million renters are at risk of being evicted by the end of the year.
Republicans’ answer to the prospect of socialized medicine is, for a growing number of Americans, no healthcare at all. And the attacks on women’s reproductive care continue.
Access to medicine is an ethical problem, not a scientific one. And any COVID-19 vaccine is likely to have a high price tag and be unequally distributed according to countries’ purchasing power.
Until we have effective and safe medications, a proven vaccine and better testing, our best shot at getting control would be to again close many businesses and activities.
A briefing packet for federal emergency response teams details the steps schools should take to reopen safely.
Susan Reverby’s riveting biography of Alan Berkman is a magnificent book. Berkman was imprisoned in the 60s, convicted for his political work. On regaining his freedom he devoted his life to public health and helping those the system abandoned.
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