Thousands Still Have No Water in Detroit, a COVID-19 Hot Spot
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-13
Water shutoffs continue amid the coronavirus pandemic in Detroit, despite a moratorium and a program to help thousands of residents restore service last month. The lack of water access comes as nearly 1,500 people in Michigan have died from COVID-19, and 40% of those who have died are African-American, despite making up just 14% of the state's population. We speak with community pastor and activist Rev. Roslyn Bouier, who has been working with residents to restore their water. | Please check back later for full…
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Thousands Still Have No Water in Detroit, a COVID-19 Hot Spot
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-13
Water shutoffs continue amid the coronavirus pandemic in Detroit, despite a moratorium and a program to help thousands of residents restore service last month. The lack of water access comes as nearly 1,500 people in Michigan have died from COVID-19, and 40% of those who have died are African-American, despite making up just 14% of the state's population. We speak with community pastor and activist Rev. Roslyn Bouier, who has been working with residents to restore their water. | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY GOODMA…
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Wash Your Hands? Despite Pandemic, Thousands Still Have No Water in Detroit, a Coronavirus Hot Spot
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-13
Water shutoffs continue amid the coronavirus pandemic in Detroit, despite a moratorium and a program to help thousands of residents restore service last month. The lack of water access comes as nearly 1,500 people in Michigan have died from COVID-19, and 40% of those who have died are African-American, despite making up just 14% of the state's population. We speak with community pastor and activist Rev. Roslyn Bouier, who has been working with residents to restore their water.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/13/detroit_michigan_water_shut_offs

Exactly 18 Years After US Coup Against Venezuela, Pompeo and Abrams Warn Another is Coming
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-13
US regime change cheerleaders Mike Pompeo and Elliot Abrams warned Venezuala's government not to resist the upcoming implementation of a "transitional government."
mintpressnews.com/18-years-after-us-coup-against-venezuela-us-warns-another-attempt/266598/

Cuba is Willing to Send More Medical Brigades to the World
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-13
Cuba is in condition to send more medical brigades to countries that need support to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cuban government said | RELATED: | Cuba: Government Implements New Measures to Prevent COVID-19 | "We defend solidarity, even in times of pandemic," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on Sunday on the social network Twitter. | According to Rodriguez, new Cuban medical brigade from the Henry Reeve International Contingent left for Italy, in Europe, this…
telesurenglish.net/news/cuba-is-willing-to-send-more-medical-brigades-to-the-world-20200413-0001.html

Caricom Calls Emergency Summit Due to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-13
The Summit of Caribbean States (Caricom) will hold an extraordinary emergency meeting on April 15 to analyse the situation in the region in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Caricom Calls For Resilient Caribbean Community | The extraordinary meeting was convened this Sunday by the pro tempore President of the Summit and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley. | At the meeting, the representatives of the member countries will discuss and exchange experiences on COVID-19,…
telesurenglish.net/news/caricom-calls-emergency-summit-due-to-covid19-20200413-0006.html

Puerto Rico braces for COVID-19 peak with lowest per capita testing
wsws.org | 2020-04-13
It took 15 days for the territory to register 100 confirmed cases, but it only took three days to register 100 more, indicating that the virus has already begun to spread rapidly through the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/13/puer-a13.html

A Basic Income Manifesto
Daniel Raventós, Julie Wark | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
A basic income isn't a magic wand. It's a measure, certainly wide-ranging (not least because it's universal) of political economy, which also consists of taxation, monetary, employment, and other measures. Herein lies the difference between basic income proposals from left and right: how it is to be financed, which part of the population gains and which loses, and what other measures need to be applied, among them a reinforced public sector. "Rescuing" people (not banks and big corporations) means not only guaranteeing their existence but recognizing their rights as citizens (whether they have legal documents or…
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A Basic Income Manifesto
Daniel Raventós, Julie Wark | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
A basic income isn't a magic wand. It's a measure, certainly wide-ranging (not least because it's universal) of political economy, which also consists of taxation, monetary, employment, and other measures. Herein lies the difference between basic income proposals from left and right: how it is to be financed, which part of the population gains and which loses, and what other measures need to be applied, among them a reinforced public sector. "Rescuing" people (not banks and big corporations) means not only guaranteeing their existence but recognizing their rights as citizens (whether they have legal documents or…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/a-basic-income-manifesto/

US: African-Americans Are More Vulnerable to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-13
The U.S.' African-American population is more vulnerable to COVID-19, according to social and demographic studies on the virus. | RELATED: | New York City Tops US With Over 100,000 Coronavirus Cases | The reason for this exposure of the African-American population is not its genetics or physical conditions, but the systemic discrimination it suffers. Many of the non-white citizens of the United States are lacking health insurance, so they may also have underlying health problems tha…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-african-descendants-are-more-vulnerable-to-covid19-20200413-0005.html

Venezuela: Community organization key to fighting COVID-19
Gsus Garcia | zcomm.org | 2020-04-13
Interview on how the communes are coping with the pandemic…
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Community organisation key to fighting COVID-19
Federico Fuentes | mronline.org | 2020-04-13
While, by April 9, Brazil to its east had registered more than 16,000 cases and 822 deaths and Colombia to its west, had seen its tally climb above 2000 cases and 54 deaths, Venezuela had only recorded 167 cases and 9 deaths.
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Venezuela Announces 6-month Rent Suspension, Guarantees Workers' Wages, Bans Lay-offs
Paul Dobson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-12
The Venezuelan government announced a series of measures on Sunday in attempts to protect the population from the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis. | Speaking on a live televised address, President Nicolás Maduro instructed that all commercial and residential rent, …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-announces-6-month-rent-suspension-guarantees-workers-wages-bans-lay-offs/5709388

ILPS U.S. Chapter Stands Firmly with Venezuela
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-12
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the International League of Peoples' Struggle – US chapter. | The International League of Peoples' Struggle – US chapter (ILPS US) expresses our deep and genuine solidarity with the people of Venezuela and their government under duly-elected President Nicolas Maduro. We absolutely reject the war mongering of the Donald Trump administration, including the fabricated charges of drug trafficking against President Maduro, the deployment of the U.S. Navy to Venezuela under the flimsy guise of fighting drug trafficking, and the continuing economic san…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/12/ilps-us-chapter-stands-firmly-venezuela

The Promising Cuba/US Cooperation on Cancer
César Chelala | commondreams.org | 2020-04-12
Cuban doctor Liz Caballero and student Susana Diaz leave El Vedado polyclinic in Havana on March 31, 2020. (Photo: Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/cuba_1.jpg …
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Vietnam Sends Aid, Protective Suits to US To Fight COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-12
Vietnam has shipped 450,000 protective suits to the United States (U.S.) to help health teams in the North American country in their struggle against the coronavirus, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi announced Wednesday. | RELATED: | Cuba and Vietnam Join Forces for Rice Production | "The first of two initial shipments of over 450,000 made-in-Vietnam DuPont protective suits arrived in U.S. Strategic National Stockpile on April 8," the Embassy said in a statement. | "This shipment will help protect…
telesurenglish.net/news/Vietnam-Sends-Shipment-of-Protective-Suits-to-US-20200412-0010.html

Migrant Workers Are Essential Workers and Must Be Included in Coronavirus Relief
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-12
The coronavirus pandemic has inspired critical discussions about which companies deserve government support and who constitutes an essential worker. Yet, there is a vital population of more than 1.6 million people who have been disregarded as a group worthy of protections: temporary foreign workers. | These workers in large part perform the types of jobs that have been deemed "essential" during this health crisis. As you read this, they are harvesting and preparing our food and providing…
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[Comment] Centring sexual and reproductive health and justice in the global COVID-19 response
Kelli Stidham Hall, Goleen Samari, Samantha Garbers, Sara E Casey, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Miriam Orcutt, Rachel T Moresky, Micaela Elvira Martinez, Terry McGovern | thelancet.com | 2020-04-11
Global responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are converging with pervasive, existing sexual and reproductive health and justice inequities to disproportionately impact the health, wellbeing, and economic stability of women, girls, and vulnerable populations. People whose human rights are least protected are likely to experience unique difficulties from COVID-19.1 Women, girls, and marginalised groups are likely to carry a heavier burden of what will be the devastating downstream economic and social consequences of this pandemic.
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Venezuela Donates COVID-19 Tests to Caribbean Countries
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez reported Friday that the Bolivarian Government donated rapid and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to several Caribbean countries to help them in the fight against COVID-19. | RELATED: | COVID-19 in the Caribbean: Overview of the Situation, Outbreak | Rodríguez said that, by order of President Nicolas Maduro, tests were sent to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua, and Barbuda, as well as Dominica and Grenada. | "To our brothers in…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Donates-COVID-19-Tests-to-Caribbean-Countries-20200410-0017.html

St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada Thank Venezuela for Donations
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves appreciated the COVID-19 screening tests that Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro sent to his country on Saturday. | RELATED: | Venezuela Donates COVID-19 Tests to Caribbean Countries | "We have received 3,000 rapid test kits for the COVID-19 and a relevant quantity of reagents for the PCR test,"
telesurenglish.net/news/St.-Vincent–Grenadines-Grenada-Thank-Venezuela-for-Donations-20200411-0006.html

Cuban Doctors Arrive in Angola to Train 1500 Health Technicians
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
Angola's Health Minister Silvia Lutucuta informed that 1,500 health technicians will be trained by Cuban doctors in matters of family medicine for community epidemiological surveillance. | RELATED: | Cuba: Government Implements New Measures to Prevent COVID-19 | "The training will take place at Girassol Hospital… because it has excellent simulators for practical classes, which is an indispensable condition," local outlet SAPO reported. | With that training, "Angolan doctors will…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuban-Doctors-Arrive-in-Angola-to-Train-1500-Health-Technicians-20200411-0002.html

Colombia's Gustavo Petro Diagnosed with Cancer
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-10
Senator Gustavo Petro, one of the most prominent leftist leaders of the Colombian government, said Friday that he was recently diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. | RELATED: | Colombia Partakes in US-Led Military Operation in the Caribbean | "I decided to travel to Cuba to complete health tests, and they diagnosed on March 2, an early stage of cancer of the lining between the esophagus and stomach," Petro confirmed. | Petro, who lost the presidential elections in 2018 against i…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombias-Gustavo-Petro-Diagnosed-with-Cancer-20200410-0015.html

Phantoms of "The Operation"
Edward Curtin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-10
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

New York Homeless People Is Unprotected Against the Pandemic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-10
In New York City, the homeless population is facing the COVID-19 pandemic without governmental guarantees, no sanitary assistance, and no appropriate shelters. | RELATED: | New York Lives Its Deadliest Day With 799 Deaths by COVID-19 | In January 2020, there were 62,679 homeless people, including 14,682 families with 22,013 children, all of them depending on the NYC shelters to spend the night. ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã&…
telesurenglish.net/news/new-york-homeless-population–facing-covid-alone-20200410-0010.html

Colonialism & coronavirus: 800,000 Haitians may die of COVID-19
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-09
Gutted by US-allied, neoliberal governments which have controlled the country since 2004, Haiti's healthcare sector braces for a potential catastrophe….
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/09/colonialism-coronavirus-haitians-covid/

Colonialism Made Puerto Rico Vulnerable to Coronavirus Catastrophe
Chris Gelardi | thenation.com | 2020-04-09
Colonialism Made Puerto Rico Vulnerable to Coronavirus Catastrophe…
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"A Systematic Issue of Disparity": Black People in Louisiana Account for 70% of COVID-19 Deaths
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
Louisiana faces one of the worst outbreaks of the coronavirus in the United States. New data shows black people account for 70% of all the state's coronavirus deaths, though they comprise just 32% of the state's population. Louisiana also has the highest incarceration rate in the country, and more than 65% of the people in its jails and prisons are black. At least 28 people are infected, and 22 corrections staff have tested positive. State corrections officials are sending infected prisoners to the Louisiana State Penitentiary

Billionaire-backed Human Rights Watch lobbies for lethal US sanctions on leftist governments as Covid crisis rages
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-08
Regime change-hungry HRW is proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua while pushing to escalate Washington's economic…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/08/billionaire-human-rights-watch-sanctions-nicaragua-venezuela/

USPSTF 2020 Recommendations on Screening for Asymptomatic Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy
Lewis AL, Laurent LC. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-07
Bacterial vaginosis during pregnancy is associated with higher risks of pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, whether or not symptoms are reported. Bacterial vaginosis is currently considered to be a microbial imbalance of the lower genital tract characterized by low levels of "healthy" Lactobacillus and overgrowth of a mixed population of other bacterial genera, including Gardnerella, Atopobium, Prevotella, Mobiluncus, Sneathia, and other taxa. Many of these microbes are also common isolates from sites of intrauterine infection, including the placenta and amniotic fluid. These findings have motivated…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764163

Celiac Disease and Mortality Risk in a Swedish Population
Lebwohl B, Green PR, Sà∂derling J, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-07
This population epidemiology study used Swedish histopathology registry data to estimate mortality risk in patients with vs without celiac disease.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764182

[Research Paper] Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19 infection
Shaoqing Lei, Fang Jiang, Wating Su, Chang Chen, Jingli Chen, Wei Mei, Li-Ying Zhan, Yifan Jia, Liangqing Zhang, Danyong Liu, Zhong-Yuan Xia, Zhengyuan Xia | thelancet.com | 2020-04-04
In this retrospective cohort study of 34 operative patients with confirmed COVID-19, 15 (44 ∑1%) patients needed ICU care, and the mortality rate was 20 ∑5%.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30075-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Ex UN anti-narcotics chief & mob expert says US Treasury running 'mafia racket' against Venezuela
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-03
Pino Arlacchi, the former Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Prevention, says US is behaving…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/03/un-narcotics-mob-treasury-running-mafia-venezuela/

Haití en el precipicio mientras el coronavirus y el liderazgo impuesto por EEUU hacen estragos
Jeb Sprague | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-03
Mientras que Haití es ampliamente despreciado, el gobierno respaldado por Estados Unidos promueve oficialmente el distanciamiento social para reprimir al…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/03/haiti-coronavirus-eeuu/

Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-01
Declaring that "Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Mike Pompeo unveils a so-called "transition" plan that tells Venezuelans to…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/01/pompeos-transition-plan-tells-venezuela-to-suffer-into-submission/

Database Inaccuracies and Disparities in Care Among Hospitalized Homeless Adults
Essien UR, Paul DW, Jr, Kushel M. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-01
To the Editor In a recent issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Wadhera and colleagues reported that hospitalized adults experiencing homelessness are less likely than those who were not homeless to undergo indicated cardiovascular interventions, including coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass graft. Those who were homeless experienced higher mortality rates. Their study adds to the literature on poor health outcomes in homeless populations by demonstrating that disparities may, in part, be because of disparities in care provided to hospitalized patients.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2763746

Implementation of HIV Self-Testing Program in New York City–Reply
MacGowan RJ, Chavez PR, Mermin JH. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-01
In Reply We were pleased to read the letter from Edelstein and colleagues about successful HIV self-testing programs supported by the New York City Health Department since 2015. The distribution of HIV self-tests to men who have sex with men and to other at-risk populations has the potential to increase HIV testing, awareness of HIV infection, and to initiate access to treatment and prevention services for more than 150‚ÄØ000 people living in the country with undiagnosed HIV. HIV testing programs could distribute HIV self-tests via the internet, community-based organizations, or other avenues. T…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2763753

[Correspondence] Dementia care during COVID-19
Huali Wang, Tao Li, Paola Barbarino, Serge Gauthier, Henry Brodaty, José Luis Molinuevo, Hengge Xie, Yongan Sun, Enyan Yu, Yanqing Tang, Wendy Weidner, Xin Yu | thelancet.com | 2020-03-30
Older adults are vulnerable at the onset of natural disasters and crisis, and this has been especially true during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1 With the aggressive spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the death toll has risen worldwide. According to an interactive online tool that estimates the potential number of deaths from COVID-19 in a population, by age group, in individual countries and regional groupings worldwide under a range of scenarios, most of those who have died were older adults, most of whom had underlying health problems.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30755-8/fulltext?rss=yes

No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
I respect UK journalist Andrew Buncombe. As I noted for FAIR last year, he was one of the few corporate journalists who reported on a study linking Trump's financial sanctions on Venezuela to thousands of deaths by the end of 2018. Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly intensified the sanctions and threatened Venezuela with military action, Read…
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Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico's Disaster Capitalism
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-03-13
Media…
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