The Vermont Senator’s campaign took a turn for the worse after several Democratic candidates dropped out of the race and pledged support to former Vice President Joe Biden.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sander of Vermont announced on Wednesday that he was suspending his campaign for the 2020 presidential elections, marking the second time in eight years that he has done so.
Cuban doctors arrive in Italy to join the fight Covid-19. Photo: RT
Expressing gratitude for the assistance being provided by a brigade of Cuban doctors in the Italian region of Lombardy, the Italian region most affected by the new SARS COV-2 virus, the nation’s Communist Party sent a message to the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and to President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
The letter notes the great value of the brigade’s cooperation, with the Italian public health system at a time of serious national emergency.
“After years of cuts in public health allocations, our health system is today in great difficulty, despite the selflessness and relentless work of our doctors and health workers, in the trenches fighting the coronavirus today, as well.Read More »
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the most acute problems of our collective life, its main contradictions.
One aspect of this is constantly being exacerbated by the mass media: we have come to fear one another. We dream of cutting off international contacts. We want to refrain from personal communication. In everything, we see the hand of the Chinese (Americans, Italians, Russians – insert as required). One more step, and racism will start appearing. We have begun talking about the birth of a “new world”, in which people are not just scared to shake hands with one another, but are afraid of one another in general…Read More »
HAVANA (AP)—For two years the Trump administration has been trying to stamp out one of Cuba’s signature programs—state-employed medical workers treating patients around the globe in a show of soft power that also earns billions in badly needed hard currency.
Labeling the doctors and nurses as both exploited workers and agents of communist indoctrination, the U.S. has notched a series of victories as Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia sent home thousands after leftist governments allied with Havana were replaced with ones friendlier to Washington.
Due to national differences in the treatment of the pandemic, it is “unlikely” that the COVID-19 spread will end this year.
Shanghai’s COVID-19 Clinical Expert Team director Zhang Wenhong warned of the high probability of a second international wave of infections occurring next fall.
Total confirmed coronavirus, officially COVID-19, cases in Africa was 10,427 while the number of recovered patients was 1,074, and the number of confirmed deaths was 519. The virus has spread to dozens of countries within weeks. Governments and health authorities across the continent are striving to limit widespread coronavirus infections. With few doctors and fewer ventilators, countries in Africa fear they are defenseless against the inevitable spread of coronavirus. Many sub-Saharan countries are more vulnerable.
There are now more than 10,000 cases on the continent, with infections in every country but one (tiny, landlocked Lesotho).Read More »
What passes for a health care system in America is an incredibly expensive and complicated proposition that has never really worked. Many millions continue to be, as they always have been, uncovered by health insurance in the U.S.
President Trump asked last year, “Who knew that health insurance could be so complicated?” Well, the coronavirus pandemic has now simplified that problem by boiling down the number of choices we face to only two.
The spokesperson recalled that many U.S. citizens gave the Chinese people a lot of assistance at the beginning of the epidemic outbreak.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that China is ready to continue to provide support within its capability for the United States in fighting COVID-19.
According to a survey, 73 percent of U.S. citizens said the outbreak has reduced their family incomes, with 24 percent saying their household incomes have been cut “very significantly.”
Nearly three-quarters of Americans said their family incomes have been reduced during the coronavirus outbreak, according to a survey released by the Financial Times and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on Tuesday.
Citing the coronavirus-induced public health crisis, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to halt in-person voting for the April 7 state primary, postponing it to June 9 on Monday. But late Monday evening, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overruled Evers, mandating that the election go ahead as scheduled.
“The virus directs us as to what our decision-making is, not human beings, and clearly I am following the science, as I always have,” Evers told POLITICO. Holding the election clearly endangers the lives of thousands of voters who may venture to the polls.
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