(2022-04-09). [Correspondence] COVID-19 vaccination and HIV-1 acquisition — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We appreciate Denis Y Logunov and colleagues' response to our Correspondence,1 in which we raise concerns about the use of adenovirus type-5 (Ad5) vectors for COVID-19 vaccines in populations at risk for HIV-1 acquisition. They nicely outline some of the hypothetical mechanisms of increased HIV-1 acquisition seen in men in the Step and Phambili trials. Although the exact mechanism has not been determined, the increased HIV-1 acquisition risk seen in both trials, which used an Ad5-vector vaccine without HIV envelope in uncircumcised men, was a robust finding.
(2022-04-09). [World Report] The Canada Gairdner Awards 2022. thelancet.com This year's Gairdner prizes have been earned for work on mRNA vaccines, fetal haemoglobin, leukaemia, critical care medicine, and newborn, child, and maternal health. Talha Burki reports.
(2022-04-09). [Perspectives] The roots of social medicine: a story of relationships. thelancet.com As the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out began in the USA in December, 2020 and health experts strategised about how to get vaccines to the underserved, H Jack Geiger, a legend in social medicine, died aged 95 years. Geiger was the visionary behind the community health centre programme at the heart of US President Lyndon B Johnson's Great Society programme, which constituted the largest expansion of the social safety net in the USA in the second half of the 20th century. Today, these health centres provide care to more than 30 million medically underserved people in 13‚Äà000 communities across the USA.
(2022-04-09). [Correspondence] COVID-19 vaccination and HIV-1 acquisition. thelancet.com Susan P Buchbinder and colleagues1 express concern that COVID-19 vaccines utilising replication-defective adenovirus vectors of human serotype 5 (HAdV-5) might increase the risk of HIV-1 acquisition. Such concern has prompted hesitancy to deploy available, safe, and efficacious adenovirus-based COVID-19 vaccines in countries with high HIV-1 incidence.
(2022-04-09). Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war. wsws.org The utter casualness and recklessness with which the US political establishment is treating the prospect of a war that threatens to escalate into a full-scale nuclear exchange must be seen in context of the ruling elite's indifference to mass death in the pandemic.
(2022-04-09). Pakistan's Supreme Court orders no-confidence vote, paving way for change in government. wsws.org The economic crisis, coupled with the government's privatization and austerity policies and its ruinous mishandling of the pandemic, have drastically eroded popular support for Khan and his PTI-led government.
(2022-04-09). Howard University Hospital staff plan one-day strike due to staffing ratios, low pay. wsws.org The strike by over 300 nurses and hospital workers comes as a wave of working class struggle has moved to oppose the capitalist elite's efforts to impose the weight of the pandemic and inflation on the population's back.
(2022-04-09). Global protest movement grows on every continent amid worsening commodity shortages. wsws.org The US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has triggered a wave of protests against the rising cost of living, tapping into deep working class anger over social inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic.
(2022-04-09). Sixth wave of pandemic underway in Canada as governments dismantle COVID reporting and last protective measures. wsws.org All signs point to Canada being in the midst of a new wave of the pandemic, triggered by the emergence of the BA.2 subvariant and fueled by government let-it-rip policies at the federal and provincial level.
(2022-04-09). Video: David Berger, a remote area general practioner in northern Australia, endorses Global Inquest into COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Berger denounces the failure of governments to protect the population from COVID-19 and calls for an "information war" to refute the unscientific material and lies about the disease from the government and mainstream media.
(2022-04-09). PSOE-Podemos ends COVID-19 mitigations forcing Spanish workers to stay on the job sick. wsws.org Madrid is ending even the most basic monitoring, setting the stage for a new surge whose full extent will not be known until hospitalizations and deaths begin to rise.
(2022-04-09). Oakland Unified approves expansion of charters amid school closures. wsws.org The school closures come on the heels of union efforts to isolate and demobilize teachers and students fighting for COVID safety.
(2022-04-09). French elections too close to call, far right calls for national unity government. wsws.org The campaign was widely unpopular, as all candidates advocated similar policies of austerity, mass COVID infection and military threats against Russia.
(2022-04-09). Shanghai lockdown extended indefinitely as COVID-19 cases continue to climb. wsws.org The lockdown in Shanghai has been extended indefinitely as COVID-19 cases continue to rise, prompting denunciations in the corporate press of the Zero-COVID policy that has saved millions of lives.
(2022-04-08). Russia and Ukraine, the World's Breadbaskets and Food Insecurity in North Africa and the Middle East. orinocotribune.com By Yoselina Guevara — Apr 5, 2022 | Until the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the world had not realized that these two nations were objectively the world's breadbaskets. Ukraine alone accounts for 12% and 16% of world wheat and corn exports, respectively; moreover, before the exacerbation of the conflict, Kiev alone accounted for half of the world's sunflower oil production; with Moscow, the figure exceeds 80%. | During March wheat prices have reached record highs on the stock exchanges, even reaching 474.24 dollars per ton; for this April 4 it stands at 365.95 dollars per ton. This var…
(2022-04-08). Ukraine threatens to shoot down Russian planes flying to Transnistria. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukrainian News AgencyApril 7, 2022 Air Defense Will Shoot Down Russian Aircraft Flying To Transnistria — General Staff Of Armed Forces Of Ukraine Ukrainian air defense systems will shoot down military aircraft of the Russian Federation when they try to get into the territory of the unrecognized "Transnistrian Moldavian Republic." The head of the Public …
(2022-04-08). Record inflation is driving mass poverty‚ÄÜin Germany. wsws.org The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and sanctions imposed on Russia have led to an explosion in prices worldwide. In Germany, annual inflation rose to 7.3 percent in March.
(2022-04-08). Banco Mundial rebaja el crecimiento de Latinoamérica y el Caribe al 2.3 por ciento para este año. cubadebate.cu El Banco Mundial rebajó la proyección de crecimiento económico para Latinoamérica y el Caribe para este año del 2.6% al 2.3% ante la incertidumbre por el coronavirus, la alta inflación y la guerra en Ucrania. En su informe semianual para la región la institución también redujo la perspectiva de crecimiento para 2023 y situó la de 2024 en el 2.4%.
(2022-04-08). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 metrics improve, expert still urges caution. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 continue to decline, leading to some optimism about the way forward from pandemic to endemic. But experts still urge caution as the omicron subvariant, named BA.2, has quickly become the dominant strain in the U.S. "When you look around the nation, all of the metrics, with the exception of BA.2, have fallen precipitously," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "But we need to be very cautious about…
(2022-04-08). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.
(2022-04-08). Iran exports Covid-19 vaccines to 10 African countries. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA) — The Iranian health minister Bahram Einollahi has said that as many as six centers are manufacturing anti-Covid-19 vaccines in Iran, adding that the Covid-19 vaccines are exported to 10 African countries.
(2022-04-08). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.
(2022-04-08). Report: Massive Increase In Green Jobs From Climate-Friendly Travel. popularresistance.org In their new report titled, "The right track for Green Jobs" Possible, Autonomy UK and Safe Landing present scenarios for showing that cuts to aviation can more than compensate for job losses to the aviation sector. No more excuses, green jobs are possible especially when people are willing to fly less. | While we at Stay Grounded and those in our network have proposed numerous strategies for reducing climate impacts from aviation, we also realize the need to emphasize a just transition towards a grounded future that helps counter some of the negative impacts of reduced flying. The Covid-19 pandemic has given man…
(2022-04-08). Centro CSO hosts 5th annual International Women's Day Event. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA — On March 6, Centro CSO hosted its fifth annual International Women's Day event. Hosted over Zoom for the second consecutive year, "Luchadorxs de Los àÅngeles: Resisting State Sanctioned Violence during a Pandemic" highlighted the efforts of women in leading the fights against police brutality, the privatization of education as well as other struggles. | The event kicked off with a solidarity statement from Sol Marquez, a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Centro CSO's core, immigration, and police brutality committees. Marquez said, "We have come a long way. For Chican…
(2022-04-08). Staten Island Amazon workers vote 'union yes'. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – On April 1 workers at the Amazon warehouse JFK8 in Staten Island New York voted to join the newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU). | Amazon is one of the largest companies in the United States and through the COVID-19 pandemic it has ballooned in size and importance to the economy as more people have transitioned to online shopping. In recent years multiple unions had unsuccessfully attempted to unionize in several high profile campaigns. | More than 8000 Amazon employees at the Staten Island warehouse will become members of the ALU after the successful vote. | Amazon vows to contest the results o…
(2022-04-08). COVID-19 cuts a swathe through official Washington. wsws.org The latest outbreak exposes the false character of the claims that the pandemic is over, as well as the self-delusion of those who have come to believe their own lies.
(2022-04-08). Australia: Health worker strikes reveal mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor. wsws.org The angry interjections of health workers at the union meetings reflect a growing shift in the working class after the profound experiences of the ongoing pandemic.
(2022-04-08). Trade between China, Mekong countries nears 400 bln USD in 2021. ecns.cn Trade between China and countries along the Mekong River has continued to surge despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sluggish global economic recovery.
(2022-04-08). Third Cohort of Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University MedTech Accelerator Commences. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Next-generation medical technology and service startups take part in a boot camp designed to increase product quality, efficiency and speed to market TEMPE, Ariz. — More than two years into a global pandemic, the clear need for innovative medical breakthroughs has never been more obvious. The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University (ASU) MedTech Accelerator, a flagship program of the Mayo Clinic and ASU Alliance for Health Care, was designed to help empower medical startups to…
(2022-04-08). Australia: Health workers strike reveals mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor. wsws.org The angry interjections of health workers at the union meetings reflect a growing shift in the working class after the profound experiences of the ongoing pandemic.
(2022-04-08). COVID-19 cuts a swath through official Washington. wsws.org The latest outbreak exposes the false character of the claims that the pandemic is over, as well as the self-delusion of those who have come to believe their own lies.
(2022-04-08). New Zealand's leading health officials resign as COVID deaths mount. wsws.org The resignation of Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Public Health Director Dr Carlone McElnay follows the Labour Party-led government's decision to abandon all public health restrictions, resulting in a surge in deaths.
(2022-04-08). LEE SIU HIN 2021-2022 Journey between China and U.S. (Part Two). indybay.org My activism building solidarity and China discovery working trip for fighting COVID, peace and justice building, Xinjiang fact-finding, anti-imperialism and understanding the Russian-Ukrainian conflict….
(2022-04-08). Why calling the highly contagious COVID-19 omicron BA.2 a 'stealth variant' is a misnomer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BA.2, the newest subvariant of omicron, is highly transmissible and accounts for 55% of COVID-19 infections in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It has been classified as a variant of concern, and it's causing the majority of cases of COVID worldwide and here in the United States. The studies that have been done on this variant have shown that it has what we call a 'growth advantage,'" says Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director…
(2022-04-08). Alimentos alcanzan su mayor precio en 32 años. telesurtv.net El índice de precios de los alimentos de la FAO registra un salto en marzo, en medio de la crisis en Ucrania y la recuperación post Covid-19.
(2022-04-08). Shanghai to open more temporary hospitals for COVID-19 treatment. ecns.cn Shanghai has opened and will continue to construct more temporary hospitals to enhance the city's treatment capacity for COVID-19 infections in its latest COVID-19 resurgence, authorities said Friday.
(2022-04-08). What experts know about COVID-19 omicron subvariant BA.2. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The World Health Organization designated COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529, named omicron, a "variant of concern" on Nov. 26, 2021, and the first confirmed case in the U.S. was on Dec. 1, 2021. Since then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has classified two subvariants, BA.1.1 and BA.2. All omicron subvariants are classified as variants of concern, the third highest of four classifications. (For more on variants of concern and other classifications,…
(2022-04-08). Growing number of U.S. lawmakers, gov't officials catch COVID-19. ecns.cn A growing number of U.S. lawmakers and government officials have caught COVID-19 recently.
(2022-04-08). Gobernador de Texas amenaza con enviar migrantes a Washington. telesurtv.net El 23 de mayo termina una prohibición emanada de la pandemia de la Covid-19 y se espera una nueva oleada de migrantes.
(2022-04-08). New COVID team sent to HK. ecns.cn The Chinese mainland has sent a fifth group of medical experts to Hong Kong to assist in the fight against its recent COVID-19 outbreak, the National Health Commission said on Friday.
(2022-04-08). EEUU: Desalojos en Hialeah. cubadebate.cu Desplazamientos y desalojos son parte de la cotidianidad en Hialeah, quinta ciudad más grande del estado norteamericano de Florida, que ha sido afectada por un déficit de viviendas generado por la crisis que exacerbó la pandemia de covid-19. El costo de los alquileres y la compra de inmuebles cada día se hacen más inaccesibles para los residentes.
(2022-04-08). LEE SIU HIN 2021-2022 Journey between China and U.S. (Part One). indybay.org My activism building solidarity and China discovery working trip for fighting COVID, peace and justice building, Xinjiang fact-finding, anti-imperialism and understanding the Russian-Ukrainian conflict…
(2022-04-08). No to war! For a scientific struggle against COVID-19! Build the PES! wsws.org The 2022 French presidential election, held on two rounds on Sunday April 10 and 24, is unfolding amid an international breakdown of the capitalist order.
(2022-04-08). Cuba reporta 619 nuevos casos de COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 607 altas médicas. cubadebate.cu Al cierre del día de este jueves 7 de abril estaban ingresados 7 074 pacientes, 4 198 sospechosos, 31 en vigilancia y 2 845 confirmados (casos activos). Durante la jornada fueron procesadas 12 057 muestras, de las que 619 resultaron positivas. El país acumula 13 532 870 muestras analizadas, con 1 095 625 positivas. Este jueves se registraron 607 altas y no se reportaron fallecidos.
(2022-04-08). China's anti-epidemic efforts ensure safe, smooth Beijing Olympic, Paralympic Winter Games: Xi. ecns.cn China's targeted and effective COVID-19 prevention and control efforts have ensured the safe and smooth hosting of Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday.
(2022-04-08). 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…
(2022-04-08). 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…
(2022-04-08). 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…
(2022-04-08). Consumer Health: Are there 'Alzheimer's disease genes?'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away and die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, which is a term used to describe a group of symptoms that affect memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily function. As many as 5.8 million people in the U.S. were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the…
(2022-04-08). Why Is Merrick Garland Throttling the Trump Investigation? truthout.org Between plague, disruptive invasions, economic consternation and the ceaseless bilge tide of right-wing social warfare, it's been hard of late for an attempted coup by the former president of the United States against the government of the United States to make a dent in the 24-hour news cycle. I'm not sure what to make of that, but it may have something to do with the fact that the last major investigation into presidential malfeasance that actually changed anything was first gaveled to order when I was 3 years old. | The Watergate hearings are the gold standard by which all since have been judged, and have been…
