Tag: Healthcare
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Shocking but Not Surprising: COVID and Class
A recent Toronto Star article, by Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Jennifer Yang, “More than 180 workers at this Toronto bakery got COVID-19,” and reproduced below, reveals a large COVID outbreak at … Keep reading »
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What Would the NHS Look Like If It Took Health Promotion Seriously?
On Sunday, July 5, 2020, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wished it a happy 72nd birthday. Spitfires flew over in celebration, and buildings were lit up in blue as … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19
Gutting the WHO, the only instrument of global cooperation during a pandemic, is a road to disaster. Keep reading »
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The Collapse of Healthcare in Peru
On 11 March 2020, Peru declared a 90-day national sanitary emergency. Subsequently, the country announced a total lockdown beginning 16 March, 2020. Despite implementing one of the earliest and strictest … Keep reading »
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Viral Ideas of the Pandemic Moment
“The meanings that COVID-19 takes on in different contexts is a result of the different ways it is being mediated – public health officials, news media, Hollywood, and the new … Watch video »
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Pandemic Worsens, Resistance Will Follow
World leaders like Trump and Johnson trying to get back to business as usual while the virus continues to spread are deliberately sacrificing public health. Keep reading »
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The Fortress World: After the Pandemic, Which Future?
We were already on the way to variations of Fortress World before COVID-19: right-wing, authoritarian/fascist regimes have been able to capture political power riding on the immiseration, anxieties, and frustration … Keep reading »
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Racism, COVID-19, and the Fight for Economic Justice
While the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests sweeping the United States were triggered by recent police murders of unarmed African Americans, they are also helping to encourage popular recognition that … Keep reading »
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Ontario Bill 175 Should Be Scrapped
Ford’s New Home Care Bill Will Compound the Pandemic Disaster Bill 175 is the new home care law of the Conservative Doug Ford government. It proposes to gut existing home and … Keep reading »
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Breaking Point in Long-Term Care in Ontario
Violence, the Pandemic, and Healthcare Workers The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Ontario’s long-term-care homes. The majority of the province’s pandemic deaths have occurred in these institutions, where conditions became so dire … Keep reading »
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COVID-19 and the Crisis in Long-Term Care in Ontario
The Ontario Health Coalition sent an open letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed by family councils, health professionals, social organizations, cultural organizations, seniors’ and retirees’ groups, health coalitions, legal … Keep reading »
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India’s Kerala Is Combating COVID-19 Through Participatory Governance
The effective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by the left-ruled Indian state of Kerala has garnered widespread attention across the world. For a small state, successful control over the pandemic has to do with its people-centrist policies and participatory governance, in tandem with a collaborative public sector. Keep reading »