New York “The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has reminded us that from one moment to the next anyone can become a person with a disability,” Nadina LaSpina told this reporter. LaSpina is a wheelchair user, a prominent disability rights activist and author of “Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, . . .
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There have been relatively few confirmed cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 among the Palestinian population compared with the Israelis infected. This is in part owing to an early lockdown by the Palestinian Authority, as well as the population’s general experience in supporting each other through the far greater virulence of . . .
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Cleveland Since March 14 the Cuyahoga County jail, located in downtown Cleveland, has released hundreds of prisoners to reduce the jail population in light of the coronavirus COVID-19 health emergency. Many people are now asking the obvious question: “Why can’t Cleveland’s example be followed across the country?” Most of the . . .
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The following are lightly edited testimonies about the health care system response to the coronavirus COVID-19 from several workers who currently have jobs in Central Texas or have spent their lives working there. EMT in Austin, Texas The response from Central Texas hospitals, nursing homes and ambulance services has so . . .
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China and Cuba have made significant scientific advances in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic. China is considered the world’s front-runner in the development of a vaccine, while Cuba’s antiviral drug, Interferon Alpha 2b, is reducing the number of deaths. Both countries, in outstanding acts of socialist internationalism, are sending doctors and . . .
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How are women and other gender-oppressed people, especially those from 15 to 44 who are of child-bearing age, being affected by the coronavirus COVID-19? All women and nonbinary people will be impacted in many ways — including reproductive health care and rights, work on the job and on “the second . . .
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This article appeared in the March 21 issue of Junge Welt, a German daily newspaper. Translation by John Catalinotto. Recently, Syria and Iran repeatedly called on the U.S. and the European Union to lift the unilateral economic sanctions imposed against the two countries. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and . . .
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