Assessing Progress in Health Care Quality Through the Lens of COVID-19
Corrigan JM, Clancy CM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-22
This Viewpoint describes US health system performance during the COVID-19 pandemic using the National Academy of Medicine’s 2001 Quality Chasm framework, focusing on system cohesion, organizational capabilities, and environment of care.
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Shifts in Emergency Mental Health Care for Youth During the Pandemic
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-22
The proportion of visits to the emergency department (ED) for mental health concerns rose by about one-quarter among children aged 5 to 11 years and by nearly one-third among 12- to 17-year-olds in 2020 compared with 2019.
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-12-22
Members of the Confusam health workers union in Chile walked out December 16 over paltry pay raises while train conductors in Argentina plan a national work stoppage December 22.
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As pandemic surges, California hospitals move to ration care
wsws.org | 2020-12-22
With health care systems being overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases and intensive care units filled to capacity, hospitals are starting to ration care, withholding it from those deemed unlikely to survive the disease.
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Bernie Sanders: Covid relief package is “totally inadequate” for “unprecedented” economic crisis
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-22
“This country faces the worst set of public health and economic crises that we have faced in over a hundred years.”
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Accelerating Global Improvements in Health Care Quality
Leatherman S, Berwick DM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-22
This Viewpoint proposes a policy framework for thinking about health care quality in low- and middle-income countries, emphasizing the importance of infrastructure, enforceable quality standards, safety practices, guideline-directed clinical care, and patient and family involvement.
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Experimental COVID Vaccines Refuted by Peer Reviewed Reports
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
Along with hazardous to human health ingredients in all vaccines, alleged protection afforded by Covid vaccines is dubious at best, unsupported by evidence at worst. | BMJ calls itself a publication “intended for healthcare professions.” | According to its associate editor/pharmacologist Peter …
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FDA Investigates Allergic Reactions to Pfizer COVID Vaccine After More Healthcare Workers Hospitalized
Children’s Health Defense | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
The FDA is investigating allergic reactions in “multiple states.” The agency acknowledged the reactions may have been caused by PEG, a compound in the Pfizer vaccine that CHD previously told the FDA could put millions of people at risk. | ***…
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Faith and the fight against climate change, part 4
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-22
In the final episode of this series, Aman Azhar asks: what value do faith-based community groups have in addressing the climate crisis and why is it that we don’t hear much about faith groups’ engagement with political action on these contemporary issues?
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A pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-22
Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón, “Something to Read,” from his collection A Puerto Rican in New York, in which he describes “a piece of …
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Black Critical Care Dr. Taison Bell of UVA on Fighting COVID, Racism & Securing Fair Vaccine Access
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-22
More than 40 countries have temporarily suspended some or all travel from the United Kingdom after British health officials announced a highly infectious variant of the novel coronavirus has been spreading in the country. South Africa has detected a similar variant. The new variant is believed to be 70% more contagious, but health experts say existing vaccines will still be effective against it. “What’s important to remember is that mutations will naturally happen in the course of a virus that’s in the community and circulating,” says Dr. Taison Bell, critical care and infectious disease physician at the Universi…
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Taiwan detects first local Covid case in over 8 months
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
Taipei, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- Taiwanese health authorities on Tuesday reported the first locally transmitted coronavirus case in more than eight months, the island’s official news agency CNA reported. Taiwan has largely escaped the worst of the pandemic, having fared much better than most other developed nations, after restricting foreign travel during the early stages of …
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US to offer Covid vaccines at some 4,000 sites nationwide
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
By Alex Segura Lozano Los Angeles, Dec 21 (efe-epa).- The United States already has the capacity to administer the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines at some 4,000 sites around the country, according to official figures, after on Monday Americans began being inoculated against the sometimes deadly viral disease. US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex …
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Australia now has four cases of mutated Covid-19 strain
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
Sydney, Australia, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- Australia on Tuesday raised to four the number of cases linked to the hyper-contagious mutant Covid-19 strain. The new cases of the fast-spreading virus have sparked health concerns even as flights continue to repatriate Australians stranded in the United Kingdom, where the new coronavirus variant was first detected. However, Chief …
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At least 4 killed in blast targeting Afghan health workers
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
Kabul, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- At least three Afghan health workers and their driver were killed on Tuesday in a sticky bomb attack against their vehicle, marking the latest in a series of targeted killings in the country amid ongoing peace negotiations. The attack, which injured an indeterminate number of people, took place on Tuesday morning …
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Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ): The Suppression of a Proven COVID Remedy
Barry Kissin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been an FDA approved drug for over 65 years. It has been on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines since the list began in 1977. People have been safely treated with HCQ billions of times …
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Take it one day at a time to tackle lonely Covid Christmas, charities say
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-22
Charities are urging people anticipating a lonely festive period to “take it one day at a time”, in an effort to protect their mental health. Last-minute restrictions on social freedoms mean many of us will be facing the Christmas period without loved ones. | London and parts of southern and eastern England were rushed into the new Tier 4 lockdown regime at the weekend. This effectively cancelled most Christmas plans, and imposed measures similar to the previous national lockdowns amid the rise of a new coronavirus mutant strain. | Scotland and Northern Ireland have already announced new lockdowns from Boxing Day…
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“Health is not a Super basic right”
Niko Harting | indybay.org | 2020-12-22
What has to change with regard to the handling of our fundamental rights from a legal, but also from a political point of view? The federal government’s Corona policy is not without alternatives, and it has by no means always been successful, as the unsuccessful “partial lockdown” has shown. Nor is there “science” that agrees on necessary measures; there are also many critical voices among medical experts.
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Homeless Dead in Santa Cruz County 2020
posted by Norse | indybay.org | 2020-12-22
This is the list given out at the on-line 2020 Homeless Memorial on December 17, 2017, sponsored by Housing Matters, the Santa Cruz County Homeless Persons Health Project, Wings and the Salvation Army. It was updated for the in-person Memorial held today at the Food Not Bombs meal location at Front and Laurel Sts.
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Populists and Experts
Thomas Frank | indybay.org | 2020-12-22
Privilege versus equality. | “The central issue in the conflict between the government and doctors in Saskatchewan is not health insurance, but democracy,” noted the Toronto-based newspaper The Globe and Mail after the strike began. “The experts, no matter what their specialty, must always ultimately be subordinate to the laity, or democracy can’t work.”
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Why Progressives Must Not Give Joe Biden a Political Honeymoon
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-12-22
Need a clear alternative to toxic GOP pseudo-populism…
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The vaccine: class division and chaos
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-12-22
To spotlight the need for COVID-19 vaccinations of hospital workers, Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., staged a photo op on Dec. 18. Front line medical residents and fellows demand vaccine access, Dec. 18. A group of medical residents created a media event of their own to protest their . . . | Continue reading The vaccine: class division and chaos at Workers.org…
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Cleveland baseball team finally retires racist name, mascot
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-12-22
Cleveland It’s official. And it’s about time. After months of discussions and rumors, Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team announced Dec. 14 that 2021 would be the last season for the racist, offensive name “Indians.” With it will go the team’s demeaning mascot, which was being phased out after it was . . . | Continue reading Cleveland baseball team finally retires racist name, mascot at Workers.org…
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Parkland massacre parents give Xmas cookies with “bullet holes” to NRA
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
Miami, Dec 21 (efe-epa).- The parents of students killed in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this week will send Christmas cookies shaped like human figures, but with “bullet holes” in them, to the National Rifle Association. Venezuelan-US couple Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of Joaquin Oliver, decided …
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The Revenge Agenda. The Deep State Has Won a Major Victory
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
The upcoming year should be interesting. The Establishment “Deep State” has won a major victory in the United States with the election of Joe Biden as president. What remains to be seen is whether or not there will be significant …
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Video: Turkish Attack on Ain Issa Turns into Failure
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
The last few days in Syria was marked by a serious military escalation in the north of the country. | Members of pro-Turkish militant groups, supported by Turkish combat drones and artillery, launched an attack on the town of Ain Issa, …
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Could the Next Standing Rock Could Be Brewing in Northern Minnesota?
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-22
The tension is palpable in northern Minnesota where a Native-led protest movement is getting ready to square off with Enbridge over the massive Line 3 oil pipeline being built to carry crude from Canada to the Great Lakes.
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Tigray: Hundreds of civilians reported killed in artillery strikes, warns UN rights chief
news.un.org | 2020-12-22
Reports of artillery strikes on civilians and mass killings of non-combatants in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, must be investigated and full access granted to independent investigators, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.
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Uptake and Accuracy of the ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code for COVID-19 Among US Hospitalizations
Kadri SS, Gundrum J, Warner S, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-22
This study uses administrative claims data to describe trends in use of ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for novel coronavirus patients in January-May 2020, before and afer the April 1 release of the U07.1 code to facilitate billing for and case monitoring of COVID-19.
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Countries impose UK travel restrictions as more infectious Covid strain threatens to spread worldwide
wsws.org | 2020-12-22
Even if the spread of the mutation is limited, it is already active on the continent and is only one of thousands of mutations worldwide–some of which have similar characteristics.
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Seriously? Gunshot Deaths Counted Among COVID-19 Fatalities in Colorado
Stephen Green | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
A pair of gunshot deaths that counted among COVID fatalities have earned the ire of a county coroner in Colorado. | Grand County, in the sparsely-populated (but breathtaking) northwestern quarter of the state, is home to fewer than 15,000 people and …
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The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a “Test” To Lock Down Society
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
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Hospital Readmission Is Common Among COVID-19 Survivors
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-22
Nearly 1 in 10 patients who were discharged after receiving inpatient care for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) earlier this year were readmitted within 2 months, according to a recent study.
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COVID Relief Payments Draw an Unfair Line Between Deserving and Undeserving Family Dependency
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-12-22
The COVID Relief legislation passed by Congress last night includes a one-time $600 per person payment, but prohibits several groups from receiving it, including 17 and 18 year olds claimed as dependents (typically on their parents’ tax returns), students age 19–23 claimed as dependents, and adults of any age with disabilities who are claimed as …
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Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75 of COVID-19
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-22
Leo Victor Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a leading scholar of the global depredations of neoliberalism, died Saturday from COVID-19. He was 75.
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US Congress comes up with new COVID relief plan, but leaves much to be desired
Anish R M | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-22
The relief package will be the second-largest of its kind since the passing of the CARES Act in March, but is too little and too late for millions who have been pushed closer to poverty and instability by the pandemic…
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Pfizer COVID Jab Warning: No Breastfeeding, Avoid Pregnancy for 2 Months, Unknown Fertility Impacts
Dorothy Cummings McLean | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
Government produced safety instructions for a new coronavirus vaccine indicate that it should not be used by pregnant or breast-feeding mothers and children. In addition, they state that it is unknown what effect the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine will have on …
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Big Pharma Business Model Is Serious Obstacle to Wiping Out COVID-19: Report
Global Justice Now | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
New research released today by Global Justice Now examines the history of some of the leading corporations producing coronavirus medicines, warning that their business model is likely to make controlling the pandemic more difficult, despite the rapid production of vaccines….
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Leo Panitch: Beloved Teacher and Public Thinker has Died of COVID-19
Kevin Jiang | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
Professor Leo Panitch was an equal-parts brilliant and generous public thinker who worked toward the betterment of humanity, his friends and colleagues say. | “If you watched Leo, you were immediately struck by his confidence,” said lifelong friend Sam Gindin. “. …
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American protestors attempt to storm Oregon State Capitol
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-22
TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) — A group of Americans protested against the Covid-19 restrictions, which turned violent for they sought to storm Oregon State Capitol in Oregan.
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IRIMC calls on WHO to act against US sanction amid Covid-19
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-22
TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) — Cheif of Iran’s Medical council called on the Director-General of WHO to take appropriate measures against the US cruel sanctions preventing Iran from providing Covid-19 vaccines.
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Culture in crisis: Arts fighting to survive COVID-19 impact
news.un.org | 2020-12-22
The culture sector, which employs more than 30 million people globally, has been hit much harder than expected by the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has said, urging targeted policies and actions to help it weather the crisis.
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COVID-19 hits trade in Asia-Pacific, but impact ‘less bad’ than elsewhere
news.un.org | 2020-12-22
Despite a sharp fall in global trade in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and lingering trade tensions, Asia and the Pacific is expected to perform relatively less badly than the rest of the world, the United Nations development arm in the region said on Tuesday.
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U.S Economy Sliding, Double Dip Recession Looms: Congress Passes the $900 Billion Mitigation 2.0 Bill
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-22
As the 2020 year closes, Congress is about to pass a $900B Covid Relief spending bill. But make no mistake. It’s Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s proposal. And it will hardly dent the rapidly slowing US economy this 4th quarter …
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Congress Passes $900 Billion Mitigation 2.0 Bill (As Double Dip Recession Looms)
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-22
As the 2020 year closes, Congress is about to pass a $900B Covid Relief spending bill. But make no mistake. It’s Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s proposal. And it will hardly dent the rapidly slowing US economy this 4th quarter and the increasingly forecasted coming double dip recession early next year. The new spending shouldn’t be confused…
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Singapore gets Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
Bangkok, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- Singapore has received the first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the city-state government said on Tuesday. The city-state last week approved Pfizer’s jab joining other countries like Britain and the United States. “Delighted to see the first shipment of vaccines arrive in Singapore on flight SQ7979 — a welcome ‘present’ …
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Foreign investment in Asia-Pacific drops 40% due to Covid
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
Bangkok, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- Foreign investment fell by 40 percent in the Asia-Pacific region in the first three quarters of the year, compared to the same period in 2019, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) said on Tuesday. In a statement, Escap said …
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India records less than 20,000 daily Covid-19 cases after nearly 6 months
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
New Delhi, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- India on Tuesday reported less than 20,000 fresh cases of Covid-19, the first time that the daily caseload in the country of over 1.3 billion people has dropped below this mark in nearly six months, after it witnessed around 100,000 new infections every day during the pandemic’s peak in September. …
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