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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 recent decades, air quality has improved in the United States, smoking rates have plummeted and govern...

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 pandemic exacerbated the general level of immiseration. The people (15 to 26 million, according to polls) w...

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 injustices and flawed social policies that set the stage for Trump’s ascendance,” David Himmelstein an...

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 UK's NHS, long the pride of the country's 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 report is, appropriately, dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet found the Trump administrati...

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 that will be delivered by the end of July, Biden said 100 million other doses that were supposed to...