Coronavirus

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.
Data suggests UK at start of new COVID wave driven by BA.4 and BA.5

Jun 16, 2022 04:11

Research shows natural infection with Omicron doesn’t produce a strong immune response, so people can quickly become reinfected.
US isolated on its own turf

Jun 15, 2022 05:05

A highly embarrassed President Joe Biden after wrongly claiming that he was committed to helping Latin America and the Caribbean recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, tackle irregular migration and improve living standards had to sheepishly hear many of his counterparts from the Hispanic world lash at his lies.
UK economy shrinks for second month in a row amid recession fears

Jun 13, 2022 09:00

British economic output declined for the second month in a row in April, weighed down by decades-high inflation, official data showed Monday.
Boris Johnson, the billionaires' useful idiot

Jun 10, 2022 04:37

A broken prime minister is still in occupation of Downing Street thanks to a billionaire class who holds a stranglehold over the governing political party.
State audit reveals Florida undercounted COVID deaths by thousands

Jun 10, 2022 04:30

An audit released by the State of Florida on Monday, June 06 suggests that information that the state released to the public during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic was inaccurate and incomplete.
UK’s Johnson survives no-confidence vote over 'partygate' scandal

Jun 08, 2022 02:56

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has managed to win the ruling Conservative Party’s vote of confidence after the "partygate" scandal dealt a heavy blow to the public’s trust in his leadership.
UK's Johnson faces confidence vote as MPs seek his ouster over Partygate scandal

Jun 06, 2022 09:25

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a confidence vote in his leadership of the ruling Conservative Party on Monday after several lawmakers submitters letters expressing dissatisfaction with his leadership in the wake of the Partygate scandal.
As food and fuel costs rise, there is no doubt the UK's poorest are hardest hit

Jun 04, 2022 03:44

The UK's Institute for Fiscal Studies believes the rise in domestic energy prices alone pushed the inflation rate for the poorest tenth of households to as high as 14%, compared with 8% for the richest.
Cowardly sanctions failed: Iran celebrates ‘zero’ COVID-19 deaths

Jun 04, 2022 00:36

As the number of daily coronavirus deaths in Iran goes down to zero, Iran’s health minister writes a message to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to congratulate him, the country’s health staffers, and the people on the accomplishment.