After 3 Years, The Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard Shuts Down
On March 10, after 3 years the Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center (CRC) run by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) stopped collecting and reporting data on the pandemic. It comes now because only New York, Arkansas, and Puerto Rico report daily data and, with the rise of at-home rapid tests, the flimsy infrastructure that existed to collect the […]
Reopen the Schools? Our Health vs Profits
As the U.S. COVID-19 death count approaches 145,000 people, Betsy DeVos, the Federal Secretary of Education, has embarked on a media blitz. Over and over, she has pounded home the same message: “The rule should be that kids go back to school this fall. They’ve been missing months of learning.” DeVos’s response exposes the real […]
Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell
this article is reprinted from Labor Notes As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell. As unemployment (officially reported) soars toward 30 percent or more, an estimated 20 million more people will fall helplessly below the poverty line. In […]
Coronavirus claims an unexpected victim: Florida vegetables
Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus.
Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers.
Amazon fires warehouse worker who led Staten Island strike for more coronavirus protection
Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it fired Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who organized a strike at its Staten Island facility on Monday
California’s farm workers pick America’s essential produce – unprotected from coronavirus
California’s roughly 400,000 agricultural workers are deemed essential, but often without proper safety measures or guaranteed benefits
Is Your Grocery Delivery Worth a Worker’s Life?
Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap
Amazon workers to walk out over lack of protective gear amid coronavirus
Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication
The coronavirus is the worst intelligence failure in US history
The Trump administration’s unprecedented indifference, even willful neglect, forced a catastrophic strategic surprise on to the American people
Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: China’s Youth
How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming youths will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come.
The Coronavirus Spurs a Movement of People Reclaiming Vacant Homes
California has the worst housing crisis in the country—so bad that, when Governor Gavin Newsom took office, in 2019, he used his inaugural address to call for a “Marshall Plan for affordable housing,”
Why Is America Choosing Mass Unemployment?
European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path.
The absurdity of athletes taking on the burden of billionaires
Sixers employees were about to take pay cuts … until Joel Embiid stepped in
Key workers stage mass walk-out over inadequate coronavirus distancing
Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus.
Coronavirus rent relief, eviction moratoriums enacted across Bay Area
With many people out of work due to coronavirus’ impact on their industry or their health, some Bay Area cities and counties are offering modest relief to renters
Kaiser Permanente Threatened to Fire Nurses Treating Covid-19 Patients for Wearing Their Own Masks, Unions Say
Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities
The New Federal Reserve as Garbage Can for All Capitalist Debt
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, but for what it called ‘Main St.’ But by ‘Main St.’ it doesn’t mean consumers or households
The Italian Workers Fighting Like Hell to Shut Down Their Workplaces
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most.
I’m 26. Coronavirus Sent Me to the Hospital.
Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves.
‘Sorry we’re out of soap:’ A couple’s diary of quarantine life at Travis air force base
David and Denise Morse were sent to the California air force base after 21 people on their Grand Princess cruise were diagnosed with coronavirus
Target and Walmart aren’t protecting staff amid pandemic, workers say
Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off
‘Terrified’ Package Delivery Employees Are Going to Work Sick
Truckers and warehouse workers at UPS and FedEx feel they have not choice but to keep showing up, even with coronavirus-like sypmtoms
The coronavirus outbreak is exposing the devastating gaps between the rich and poor at a moment when America is primed for class warfare
The divisions between the rich and poor are infuriatingly clear in 2020
I’m A Doctor. The U.S. Response To Coronavirus Has Been Nothing Short Of Criminal.
“With every crucial delay, with every blunder and misstep, the toll is going to be measured in lives lost.”
Covid-19: A Best-Case Scenario
Now is the time to imagine a better world.
Uber and Lyft drivers protest to demand more benefits during coronavirus crisis
Rideshare workers are calling for enforcement of California’s AB5 which would allow them at least three days of paid sick leave
‘Suddenly I have no paycheck’: layoffs and cuts for workers rocked by coronavirus
As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now?
Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals Just How Devastating the Greed of For-Profit Insurance Industry Has Become
For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period.
Go on Strike for Your Health and Safety
Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week.
Coronavirus is a Historic Trigger Event — and it Needs a Movement to Respond
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.
The Coronavirus Pandemic Proves That We Can Overcome the Climate Crisis—If We Want To
One positive takeaway from the world’s response to the coronavirus epidemic is that it’s entirely possible to successfully combat two other existential and intertwined global crises: climate change and air pollution.
“Capitalism is a disease hotspot”
Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic