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Will we learn lessons for tackling climate change from our current crisis?
Apr 11, 2020 03:27Whether you are dealing with a deadly virus or extreme weather, prevention is always better than cure. It makes economic sense to build greater resilience against climate change now, in the same way that we must strengthen our health care systems before the next pathogen strikes.
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Decades of heavy air pollution could make some US areas more likely to see high Coronavirus death toll: Study
Apr 11, 2020 03:15Researchers at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard examined data about harmful particulate matter in 3,080 counties across the US over the past 17 years and compared pollution levels with the counties' death rates thus far from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
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Amnesty warns of looming Covid-19 disaster for detained immigrants and refugees in US
Apr 11, 2020 03:12Amnesty International on Tuesday drew attention to the public health threat simmering in the United States' vast immigration detention system as a result of the Trump administration's "reckless" response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a new report calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to parole as many detainees as possible and release all children from custody without delay.
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African Americans have contracted and died of COVID-19 at an alarming rate
Apr 10, 2020 18:48Milwaukee is one of the places in the United States that is tracking the racial breakdown of people who have been infected by the novel coronavirus, offering a glimpse at the disproportionate destruction it is inflicting on black communities nationwide.
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How coronavirus led to highest-ever spike in US gun sales
Apr 10, 2020 18:46According to Georgia State University law school professor Timothy Lytton, an expert on the US gun industry, most new gun sales are being motivated by two factors that have been spurred on by the coronavirus crisis. The first is the concern that civil society — fire, police and health services — could be severely "eroded" someday, leading to a breakdown in law and order. He said in such a case, a gun can be viewed as a "self-help" survival tool.
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Don’t let COVID-19 devastate Syria, Yemen and Gaza
Apr 10, 2020 18:44As many observers have emphasized, the COVID-19 crisis is not just one of health and the economy, but also has other dimensions. COVID-19 is already challenging our assumptions about humanity, about society, about greed and selfishness, about the need to cooperate. The pandemic has exposed fault lines in trust among humans, among groups, among countries, between citizens and governments, and faith in many of assumptions about life, not only beliefs and humanity, but also knowledge itself.
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Coronavirus: What about Palestinian prisoners?
Apr 09, 2020 14:42The Palestinians behind bars in the occupied Palestine have nothing to defend themselves from the coronavirus, except perhaps a bar of soap, on top of which they still have to cope with the regime’s deliberate neglect and brutality of torture and occupation.
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Experts warn of mental health fallout from mass US unemployment
Apr 09, 2020 05:23The US faces a catastrophic rise in unemployment following the forced shutdown of businesses across the country to stop the spread of COVID-19 — and experts are warning it could trigger a severe mental health crisis.
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Save Rohingya Muslims from COVID-19
Apr 09, 2020 05:20For almost three years, Rohingya refugees who have been sheltering in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have tried to go home and resume normal life. They want their children to go to school and for families separated by the conflict to be reunited. So far, international attempts to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and improve conditions in Rakhine State have failed.
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COVID-19 is turning US prisons into “kill-boxes”
Apr 08, 2020 16:41“US prisons are about to be utterly transformed by tragedy on a grand scale.” So concludes “COVID-19 And Indiana Prisons,” a 13-page blueprint to save the lives of thousands of people locked up in the cages of the Indiana Department of Corrections.