The pandemic has exposed the contradiction between the highly integrated nature of modern society and the outmoded and irrational nation-state system of capitalism.
Proponents of “herd immunity” argue that measures to contain COVID-19 should be abandoned, allowing the disease to infect billions of people and kill countless millions.
COVID-19 survivors who continue to experience symptoms weeks to months after initial infection have organized themselves online, seeking to understand the phenomenon of their extended illness.
An examination of the historical record demonstrates that infectious diseases like COVID-19 can be eliminated.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest outbreak of disease in human history, killing as many as 100 million people.
The Trump administration, with Kennedy as its public health executioner, is determined to roll back decades of scientific progress.
Late Shift in particular is a stirring tribute to an important layer of the working class that takes its work seriously despite adverse circumstances.
The CDC’s decision to reinvestigate links between vaccines and autism after decades of scientific inquiry that showed no such connection is a bellwether moment in the anti-public health trajectory of Trump’s fascistic policies.
New Mexico health officials confirmed on Thursday that an unvaccinated adult from Lea County on the border with Texas tested positive for measles after having died.
The abrupt cancelation by the FDA of the vaccine advisory committee meeting to determine next flu season’s vaccine has potentially catastrophic public health implications.
Delays in reporting relate to near non-existent infrastructure conditions and poorly resourced facilities.
The death of the unvaccinated school-aged child marks the first fatality from measles in the United States in 10 years.
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research estimated that in the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1.75 million excess deaths.
The planned $4 billion cut in funding for scientific inquiry to the nation’s universities and academic medical institutions will have devastating consequences on research into treatments for such conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Health officials are downplaying the TB danger, although the outbreak has continued for a full year with no end in sight.
The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.
Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.
The northern hemisphere is facing not only a surge of COVID infections, but flu, RSV, and norovirus cases are skyrocketing.
In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.
Aaron Siri, the attorney who is advising Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., filed a petition with the FDA in 2022 to revoke the polio vaccine due to supposed safety concerns, it was revealed last week.
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in California over the explosion of bird flu among dairy cows in the state. Meanwhile the first critical case of a person infected with bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana.
The report of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic embraces the baseless campaign fomented by the fascist right blaming a Chinese lab for starting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pioneered by the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act, value-based care has become an important mechanism for subordinating all health services to corporate profits.
Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has promised to end water fluoridation, a program which has been called one of the ten greatest achievements in public health.
Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has promised to end water fluoridation, a program which has been called one of the 10 greatest achievements in public health.
