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2022-04-01: News Headlines

RT (2022-04-01). Russia Presents New Evidence on Ukraine Biolabs, Comments on Links to Biden and US. dissidentvoice.org © Getty Images / Andrew Brookes The Russian military has presented documents showing Ukraine's interest in using drones to deliver weaponized pathogens developed in US-funded biolabs. Names of US officials involved in the biolabs projects, and the role the current US president's son played in the program, were also made public during the special briefing on Thursday. …

Hedelberto López Blanch (2022-04-01). El desasosiego de las compañías aéreas. globalizacion.ca Las compañías aeronáuticas del mundo han sufrido enormes pérdidas durante la pandemia de la Covid 19 lo cual motivó que varias de ellas se declararan en bancarrota. Las consecuencias por el coronavirus han dejado grandes deudas en todas las empresas…

Elson Concepción Pérez (2022-04-01). Bajo el disfraz de la colaboración biológica entre Ucrania y EE. UU. globalizacion.ca La noticia puede resultar tan impactante como la de la guerra misma: el Ministerio de Defensa ruso comprobó, documentación incluida, que se experimentó, en laboratorios biológicos establecidos y financiados por EE. UU. en Ucrania, con muestras de coronavirus en murciélagos….

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-01). The "Killer Vaccine" Worldwide. 7.9 Billion People. globalresearch.ca The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 7.9 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized "vaccine passport". The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from the vaccine is overwhelming. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma.

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-04-01). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

ecns.cn (2022-04-01). Over 88 pct Chinese fully vaccinated against COVID-19: official. ecns.cn China has fully vaccinated 88.11 percent of its population against COVID-19 as of Thursday, a Chinese health official said Friday.

WSWS (2022-04-01). Wealth bonanza for Australia's billionaires continues as the pandemic rages. wsws.org Australian billionaires added more than $50 billion to their coffers over the past year, amid a surge of COVID, wage suppression and a cost-of-living crisis.

WSWS (2022-04-01). As Quebec faces its sixth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, CAQ government continues to put profits before lives. wsws.org Fueled by the Omicron BA.2 variant, which is up to 30 percent more contagious than the original Omicron strain, a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now underway in Quebec.

WSWS (2022-04-01). Australia: New South Wales nurses again defy government-court ban in statewide strike. wsws.org For the second time in six weeks, tens of thousands of nurses across the state walked off the job over chronic understaffing and unsafe conditions made worse by COVID-19.

WSWS (2022-04-01). COVID deaths surge in New Zealand. wsws.org 101 deaths have been added to New Zealand's COVID-19 toll in the last six days, as the Labour Party-led government allows the virus to rip across the country.

teleSUR, yart, JGN (2022-04-01). Uruguayos en descontento ante aumento en costo de combustibles. telesurtv.net El Gobierno uruguayo atribuye el aumento al conflicto en Ucrania y a la pandemia de la Covid-19.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-01). An Autopsy: How the Organized Left Got Covid Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost its Mind. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Parenti It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health…

Staff (2022-04-01). Cuba reporta 778 nuevos casos de COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 774 altas médicas. cubadebate.cu Al cierre del día de ayer, 31 de marzo, se encuentran ingresados un total de 8 129 pacientes, sospechosos 4 491, en vigilancia 19 y confirmados activos 3 619. Para la COVID-19 se realizaron un total de 12 267 muestras para la vigilancia en el día, resultando positivas 778 para 6,3% de positividad. El país acumula 13 454 322 muestras realizadas y 1 091 063 positivas (8,1%).

ecns.cn (2022-04-01). Shanghai tightens travel restrictions amid COVID-19 outbreak. ecns.cn Starting from Saturday, people leaving Shanghai must produce a negative nucleic acid test result obtained within 48 hours before departure as well as a negative antigen test result obtained within 24 hours prior to their travels.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: Dealing with 'brain fog' from long COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Post-COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID-19, involves a wide range of health problems that occur many weeks, months and years after recovering from COVID-19 infection. Sometimes, symptoms of long COVID-19 can include cognitive difficulties. "Brain fog" has been used to describe some of these symptoms. While "brain fog" is not a medical condition, it's a term used for certain symptoms that can affect one's ability to think. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Billie…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). AI uses voice biomarkers to predict coronary artery disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Imagine being able to record yourself reading and then having your clinician use those recordings to screen for various diseases, even from thousands of miles away. This technology may sound like science fiction, but Mayo Clinic researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and test what the voice can reveal about a patient's heart health. In a recent study, the research team used an AI trained for specific vocal biomarkers to accurately predict which…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Mayo Clinic researchers develop new antibody test to diagnose MS. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have validated a new antibody test to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS), a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord. Nearly 1 million people in the U.S. are affected by MS, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. An antibody typically consists of two immunoglobulin heavy chains and two light chains. There are two types of light chains: kappa and lambda. The validated test measures kappa immunoglobulin free…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Consumer Health: What do you know about TB? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org World TB Day will be observed Thursday, March 24, which makes this a good time to learn about this potentially serious infectious disease. In 2020, 7,174 cases of tuberculosis, or TB, were diagnosed in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Worldwide, 10 million cases were diagnosed, according to the World Health Organization. TB is caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis that spreads from person to person through tiny droplets released…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). New computational model proposed for Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed a new model for mapping the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease to brain anatomy. This model was developed by applying machine learning to patient brain imaging data. It uses the entire function of the brain rather than specific brain regions or networks to explain the relationship between brain anatomy and mental processing. The findings are reported in Nature Communications. "This new model can advance our understanding of how…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-01). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

WSWS (2022-04-01). Australian respiratory scientist speaks to the Global Workers' Inquest. wsws.org "Working in a chronic healthcare environment, I deal with comorbidities every day. It's not an excuse to just allow people to die early because they have an illness."

ecns.cn (2022-04-01). Chinese mythology-themed park kicks off construction in Wuhan. ecns.cn The construction of a theme park featuring ancient Chinese mythology has kicked off construction in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.

Christian Parenti (2022-03-31). How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind: an autopsy. thegrayzone.com It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health measures. For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and …

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). Ministry emphasizes travel safety ahead of holidays. ecns.cn Helping tourist attractions and cultural hot spots prevent coronavirus outbreaks remains the priority of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday approaching.

Stansfield Smith (2022-03-31). Why Many Progressives Misrepresented and Condemned the Ottawa Trucker Protest. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Mar 27, 2022 | Canada's "Freedom Convoy" began with protesting rules implemented in January by the Canadian and later the US governments requiring truck drivers to be fully vaccinated to enter their country. It snowballed into a demonstration against dysfunctional coronavirus restrictions. The Ottawa trucker protesters demanded: No Lockdowns, No Mandates, No Vaccine Passports, and if not, that Trudeau resign. | Working people are increasingly angry at the failures of the neoliberal regimes in Canada and the US to meet our needs. Unfortunately, we on the left are not positioned to effect…

Editor2 (2022-03-31). Canada's 'Freedom Convoy': Astroturfed Scam or Legitimate Workers Uprising? orinocotribune.com By Orinoco Tribune Staff — Mar 31, 2022 | From January 29 until February 23, 2022, a convoy of big rigs descended on Canada's capital, paralyzing the downtown core, demanding an end to vaccine mandates that would cost truckers their livelihood, and protesting against the government's response to the pandemic. Joined by between 5,000 and 20,000 protestors at its peak, the "Freedom Convoy" occupied downtown Ottawa, sounding air horns and disrupting traffic. The polarizing events and accompanying media coverage briefly thrust Canada onto the world stage. | Now that the smoke has cleared, Orinoco Tribune's edito…

Our Reporter (2022-03-31). Polio vaccination exercise: Mukono health workers demand allowances. plusnews.ug 10 medical workers in Nama sub-county in Mukono district who were involved in the mass polio vaccination campaign in January this year are yet to receive their allowances. The Sub-county Chairperson, John Bosco Isabirye, says that the 10 health workers were denied their allowances despite conducting the exercise. He says that the medical workers brought …

_____ (2022-03-31). We Can't Allow The Far-Right To Take The Initiative Or Hold Public Space. popularresistance.org Boston, Massachusetts – Last weekend in South Boston, around 50 people mobilized to counter a possible appearance by the neo-Nazi group the Nationalist Social Club-131 (a nod to both the 'National Socialism' of the Nazi Party and 'Anti-Communist Action'), after public outcry grew following the group's appearance at the yearly St. Patrick's Day parade. At the parade, around a dozen neo-Nazis, all wearing masks and flying a flag with a white nationalist symbol, held a banner reading, "Keep Boston Irish," and handed out flyers promoting the group and attacking non-whites.

VINS (2022-03-31). Indigenous Communities Using Data Sovereignty To Solve Food Insecurity. projectcensored.org The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, Brian Oaster spoke with…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-31). 200 Million Strike in India Against Right-Wing Narendra Modi Government's Policies. towardfreedom.org Living standards of India's working people have deteriorated because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government's lack of sufficient policy interventions during the pandemic, People's Dispatch reports.

WSWS (2022-03-31). 1,300 copper mine workers in Utah prepare for struggle against Rio Tinto. wsws.org Mine workers in Utah, who have risked their lives during the pandemic, are prepared to fight for higher wages, better benefits and safe working conditions.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Pakistan's right-wing populist Imran Khan-led government facing likely defeat in no-confidence vote. wsws.org Popular support for the government has plunged due to its imposition of IMF-dictated austerity and its ruinous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Within the ruling elite, meanwhile, there are sharp divisions over Pakistan's ever-widening estrangement from Washington.

Brittani Banks (2022-03-31). Why the U.S. Culture of Colonial Extraction Is Making People Sick and Destroying the Planet. independentmediainstitute.org A widespread culture of isolation and disconnection from our bodies, each other and the planet is negatively impacting the mental and physical health of people in America and beyond—and this was true long before the pandemic. Our relatively new human social structure that is work-obsessed and separated from nature and each other leaves us scant …

teleSUR, mcs, JL (2022-03-31). Inician primeras pruebas clínicas de vacuna anticovid en Argentina. telesurtv.net El equipo de investigación liderado por la investigadora Juliana Cassataro iniciará la fase 1 de investigación de la ARVAC Cecilia Grierson.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Video: Families of the dead mark one year of the UK's National Covid Memorial Wall. wsws.org This video comprises footage and photos taken by WSWS reporters during the day's events. It includes the march from the memorial wall, via Parliament, to Downing Street, and the candlelit procession later in the evening. WSWS reporters also spoke to family members who attended the day's events.

ecns.cn (2022-03-31). COVID-hit Shanghai to screen 16 mln people in second phase of closed-off management. ecns.cn Shanghai will launch a nucleic acid testing campaign in areas west of the Huangpu River starting Friday amid the second phase of the city's closed-off management, an official told a press conference on Thursday.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-31). Study shows COVID risk greater for those with poorly controlled or severe asthma. imperial.ac.uk Children and adults with asthma that is severe or poorly controlled are at greater risk of hospitalisation with COVID-19, a major study shows.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Rutte government lifts COVID-19 measures in Netherlands as infections surge. wsws.org The pseudo-scientific policy of herd immunity coupled with the impact of three decades of austerity has devastated the Dutch public health care system.

WSWS (2022-03-31). Finance capital demands an end to Shanghai's lockdown and China's Zero-COVID policy. wsws.org In an editorial board statement, the Financial Times denounces lockdowns and all other public measures that impinge on the production of profits but have saved millions of lives in China.

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