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Poor Americans More Likely to Have Respiratory Problems, Study Finds Despite improvements in air quality and other advances, low-income Americans more often have asthma, lung disease and related illnesses. Even when scientists controlled for the ill health effects of higher smoking rates among low-income individuals, a respiratory health gap persisted between rich and poor Americans.Credit...Susan L. Angstadt/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle, via Getty Images May 28, 2021Updated 2:51 p.m. ET In re...

Decline of the USA, Rise of the Struggles? The USA, as the world’s leading capitalist nation, is economically, politically and morally bankrupt. Resistance is picking up steam at home: in 2018 and 2019 there were more strikes, and more large ones, than at any time in more than two decades. In 2020, there were only seven strikes with 1,000 or more participants, but the country witnessed the largest wave of protests in its history. [1] Rising unemployment and poor health care during the pandemi...

Lancet: Joe Biden Is Remedying Donald Trump’s ‘Assault on Health’ The woke Lancet medical journal has issued a glowing review of President Joe Biden’s first 100 days, praising him for remedying former President Donald Trump’s “assault on health” and being “the first US President to utter the words white supremacy and systemic racism.” “US President Joe Biden’s initial actions stayed Donald Trump’s assault on health and the new administration has begun to redress injusti...

The Lancet is right in blasting US capitalism, easily the most savage, virulent and cynical of all First World strains of neoliberalism, but they need to look homeward, too. British duopolists—Tories and Labour— are busy gnawing at the foundations of the UKs NHS, long the pride of the countrys onetime strong safety net.  On Thursday, the British medical journal The Lancetpublished its official report, three years in the making, on the Trump administration’s health care record. The repor...

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced completion of a deal to purchase an additional 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, fulfilling an agreement he outlined two weeks ago. “We’ve now purchased enough vaccine supplies to vaccinate all Americans,” Biden said during a visit to the National Institutes of Health. “Now we’re working to get those vaccines into the arms of millions of people.” In addition to finalizing contracts with Pfizer and Moderna for 100 million more doses each...

The study's authors fault the Trump administration for policy decisions made before the pandemic.

The Lancet Commission described the former president's COVID-19 response as “inept and insufficient" and advocated for a single-payer health system.

40 Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Could Have Been Averted If It Werent for Trump: Report Newsweek 2/11/2021 Jason Lemon © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Then President Donald Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club on November 26, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia A new report highlights the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. under former President Donald Trump, noting that some 40 percent of COVID-19 pandemic deaths in 2020 would have been averted if Americas mortality ...

February 11, 2021 In 2020, there were about about 400,000 Covid-19 related deaths in the US, more than in any other country. Yet something else kills even more Americans, every year: inadequate healthcare. According to a study published today in The Lancet, a UK medical journal, there were 461,000 so-called “missing Americans” in 2018. That means that if the US had a life expectancy equal to the average of countries of comparable wealth (in the study, the group is identified as G7 cou...

A new report found that 40% of America’s COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented, the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health found that many people didn't take the pandemic seriously at the beginning.