Despite the sharp increase in cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci said a return to lockdowns seems unlikely.
Source: Fauci has a warning on COVID-19 surge: “Things are going to get worse.”
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Achal Prabhala: How the West Is Keeping the Covid-19 Pandemic From Ending
Highlighting how the Pfizer-BioNTech and NIH-Moderna vaccines have only been supplied in the richest 20 percent of the world–a move that has made them inordinate profits–Prabhala comes to a harrowing conclusion: By only immunizing wealthy nations, the pharmaceutical companies in question are in effect “engineering vaccine apartheid,” he argues, and driving the proliferation of other variants of the coronavirus. This in turn will create more incentive for rich countries to buy more shots from companies like Pfizer, which is already pushing the idea of boosters that would make the company billions of dollars more in profit.
Source: Achal Prabhala: How the West Is Keeping the Covid-19 Pandemic From Ending
Pfizer’s greed is killer, say protesters
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of New York City, chanting “Pfizer’s Greed Kills,” as Pfizer and the German government refused to share COVID-19 vaccine formulas with the Global South. Pfizer has made billions in profits while the global pandemic death toll has surpassed 4 million people.
The Pandemic Alone Can’t Transform Capitalism
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to the world economy, shining a harsh light on the frailties of global capitalism. But there won’t be a progressive paradigm shift coming out of the crisis without a dramatic upsurge of collective action.
CDC Document Warns Delta Variant Is as Contagious as Chickenpox
Leaked CDC slides on delta variant got you concerned?
I find the slides insightful & largely reassuring
Bottom line
Delta variant is a problem
Vaccines prevent vast majority of infections, transmission
And nearly all hospitalizations, deaths
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More than three million people across the globe have died of Covid-19 in the roughly nine months since India and South Africa first proposed a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a popular measure that Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other rich countries have blocked.
Boris Johnson is a Comic Operate Prime Minister, Whose Antics Have Killed Tens of Thousands
Boris Johnson turns out to have privately yearned to adopt the same approach as Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro who publicly favoured allowing Covid-19 to rip through his nation. “Stop all this fussing and whining,” Bolsonaro told Brazilians, some 543,000 of whom have died in the epidemic. “How long are you going to go on crying?” More
Trump Supporters’ Anti-Science Crusade Is Threatening Us All
COVID is rising enough to spur the largest nurses’ union in the U.S. to urge the reinstatement of the mask mandate.
Source: Trump Supporters’ Anti-Science Crusade Is Threatening Us All
As European governments demand population “live with” COVID-19 surge, workers must take up a socialist strategy
The policy of the ruling class means the continuation of the pandemic and, with it, mass death and social devastation. The only social force able to stop this war on society is the international working class.
‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: WHO Chief Laments 4 Million Covid-19 Deaths
“Everyone deserves protection from Covid-19,” said the People’s Vaccine Alliance, “not just the richest.”
Source: ‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: WHO Chief Laments 4 Million Covid-19 Deaths | Common Dreams News
