Cuba’s Interferon Saves Lives Resumen
Thousands Join Virtual Rally to Demand World Without Prisons as Coronavirus Spreads in Detention Centers Common Dreams
More than 25,000 people attended a virtual rally held on Facebook and Zoom Friday in honor of Palestinian Prisoners Day to call for worldwide prison abolition as the coronavirus pandemic causes deadly outbreaks in detention centers around the globe.
Class war
Luxury-Building Workers Strike for Facemasks and a Union LaborPress
The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months In These Times
NYC Workers Strike After New Jersey Building Porter Dies Of COVID-19 Gothamist
Amazon climate group plan employee ‘sickout’ in protest of treatment of workers Independent
US using coronavirus pandemic to unlawfully expel asylum seekers, says UN Guardian
After armed protest in Michigan, Trump dangerously tweets people should ‘liberate’ blue states DailyKos
Wall Street Titans Finance Democratic Primary Challenger to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Intercept
Covid-19 coronavirus
Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients NYTimes
Privatization, the pre-existing condition killing seniors in long-term care Ricochet
Blaming China for the COVID-19 crisis is deceitful Peoples Dispatch
Ohio State University economics professor Trevon Logan said the Black community has “a lot of examples of the presumed criminality of Black men in general, and then we have the advice to go out in public in something that…can certainly be read as being criminal or nefarious, particularly when applied to Black men.”
Brooklyn Nursing Home Tops NYs Coronavirus Death List NY Patch
10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem. NYTimes
No matter how you crunch the numbers, this pandemic is only just getting started Guardian
Wild animals are reclaiming cities and streets during coronavirus lockdown NYPost
US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report Times of Israel
Capitalist crisis
Pay the rent or eat? Suddenly jobless Americans face dilemma AFP
Less than half of Los Angeles residents are still working and ethnic minorities are being hit the hardest by coronavirus job losses Business Insider
Ilhan Omar unveils bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments amid pandemic Guardian
The economic crisis will expose a decade’s worth of corporate fraud Economist
Here Are the Companies Getting Federal Funds for Covid Relief Bloomberg
Chase Bank prioritizes LARGE INDEBTED businesses over small businesses for PPP loans YouTube
India
Arundhati Roy on coronavirus: ‘Situation in India is approaching genocidal’ DW
Opening up the country now would be like cutting the parachute off your back 1000 feet from the ground.
You’d get to the ground quicker if that’s your only goal. — David Sinclair, PhD
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