Coronavirus

'Broken' capitalist food system drives soaring global hunger: Oxfam

Jul 11, 2022 09:54

Around 1 in 10 people went hungry last year in a world losing ground on its collective goal of ending all forms of hunger, a report released recently by United Nations agencies revealed, prompting sharp censure from a leading charity.
Highly contagious BA.5 variant becomes dominant in US as Covid cases rise

Jul 09, 2022 03:58

The highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant is now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US.
With Covid killing hundreds of Americans daily, focus falls on BA.5

Jul 08, 2022 04:42

Media outlets cover the ever-expanding death toll of Covid in the US. The San Francisco Chronicle draws particular attention to the highly infectious Omicron subvariant BA.5, which one expert calls a "different beast."
UN chief says ‘perfect storm’ of crises is widening global inequality

Jul 06, 2022 04:39

UN Secretary General António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.
Experts are worried about the potential of another brutal COVID winter in US

Jul 04, 2022 09:42

Virus variants BA.4 And BA.5 have begun to lay siege to Europe and other parts of the world, a harrowing preview of what may be to come to the US, as those variants are already well on their way to becoming the dominant vector in the country.
Stagflationary global debt crisis looms – and things will get much worse

Jul 04, 2022 09:38

There is ample reason to fear big economies such as the US face recession and financial turmoil.
Boris Johnson faces investigation into claims over 40 ‘new’ hospitals

Jul 04, 2022 09:31

The National Audit Office (NAO) has made clear that it is concerned at how the UK government still maintains that it will build 40 entirely new hospitals, when in reality many will merely be extensions or refurbishments of existing ones.
COVID death toll vs China’s puts US to shame

Jun 29, 2022 05:07

For the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic through 2021, China’s growth was always positive and greater than that of the US. China’s policy not only saved lives but protected the economy. One might say win-win.
Study shows excess corporate profits in the US have become 'widespread'

Jun 24, 2022 10:45

A new research paper finds that the US corporate price markups and profits jumped to their highest levels in seven decades last year.
Medicare for all could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid deaths: Study

Jun 17, 2022 03:06

Covid-19 has killed more than one million people in the United States over the past two years, but more than 338,000 of those lives could have been saved if the country had a universal single-payer healthcare system such as Medicare for All.