São Paulo teachers continue strike against deadly school reopenings despite union sabotage
Teachers voted on Saturday, February 27, to continue their strike against the murderous reopening of public schools in São Paulo, the state with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Brazil.
The vote, carried out through virtual assemblies, came the day after Brazil reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic over a year ago.
Despite the deadly implications of school reopenings amid this surge in the pandemic and with the imminent threat of a national collapse of the health system, the political groups within the São Paulo teachers union APEOESP executive board the Workers Party (PT), the Maoist Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and the various tendencies of the pseudo-left Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) continue sabotaging the teachers strike.
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Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 28February 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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It appears that new Covid cases and Covid deaths have stopped going down in the US; I say appears because it s possible that the apparent uptick early this week might have been due to underreporting of cases last week, when there were widespread power outages in Texas and other states in the wake of an unprecedented cold wave. For the 7 days ending Saturday, reported new cases were only down 0.3% from the prior week
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Teachers and health workers strike amid back-to-school campaign in Brazil
Teacher being tested for coronavirus in São Paulo state school. (Governo do Estado de São Paulo)
The pandemic has resulted in a total of 242,178 recorded deaths and 10 million cases in Brazil, surpassed only by the United States. More than 300,000 new cases were recorded last week along with 7,520 deaths, the second highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a week since the start of the pandemic.
Health care workers are confronting the direct impact of the herd immunity policies implemented by governments in Brazil and around the world. In Brazil, the first and second waves were in reality uninterrupted, with the number of coronavirus cases never having registered less than 100,000, and deaths never less than 2,000 per week. According to data compiled by the Federal Council of Medicine, more than a thousand doctors, nurses and technicians have died since March 12 in Brazil, with hundreds of deaths having occurr