Covid-19 coronavirus
South Dakota Meat Factory Becomes Worst Coronavirus Cluster in U.S. Daily Beast
Trump turns against WHO to mask his own stark failings on Covid-19 crisis Guardian
More than 1,600 employees at VA medical facilities have coronavirus Federal News
A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat The Atlantic
The high positivity rate also suggests that new cases in the U.S. have plateaued only because the country has hit a ceiling in its testing capacity.
Smaller Hospitals In Chicago Can Have 2-Week Waits For COVID-19 Test Results CBS Chicago
U.S. Virus Deaths Hit Horrifying One-Day Record: 4,591 WSJ (in one day more than in all China Covid-19 deaths since Jan. 1 – 4,632 – including new total in Wuhan)
Rent strike
NYC Gears Up For Coronavirus Crisis Rent Strike Patch
Class war
NJ Hospital Retaliates Against Workers
Manhattan Building Workers Strike Over Safety Fears MSN
Nurses Across the U.S. Protest Dangerous Conditions and For-Profit Health Care LaborNotes
10 nurses were suspended from a California hospital for refusing to treat coronavirus patients without N95 masks BusinessInsider
Calls For A May 1st General Strike Grow Rising Up With Sonali, Pacifica
Amazon Face-Off in France Serves as Worker-Rights Test Case Bloomberg
Activists push for eviction moratorium in Sioux Falls KELO
Conservative group linked to DeVos family organizes protest of coronavirus restrictions in Michigan Salon
Capitalist crisis
Week Four of the U.S. Labor Market Collapse Wolf Street
More U.S. jobs have been lost in the last month than were gained since the Great Recession Axios
Controversial Louisiana pastor wants people to donate stimulus checks Daily Mail
Trump’s call with Wall Street didn’t go as planned Politico
Profit Health Care
‘Thriving During a Pandemic’: UnitedHealth Group Posts Surge in Profits as Millions Lose Insurance and Thousands Die Common Dreams
“Capitalist governments treat the health of people as a cost and not as a fundamental right” Peoples Dispatch
U.S.-Mexico border
Coronavirus: Protests break out at US-Mexico border over deaths at manufacturing plants Independent
Cuba
The Covid-19 pandemic evidences the need to cooperate despite political differences Statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Germany
Germans have right to protest during coronavirus pandemic: court Reuters
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