Online and on social media, Chinese families blamed authorities for the death of a four-month-old girl after access to medical care was delayed because of the government’s harsh, so-called zero-Covid policies. In southern China, protesters broke out of buildings...
On September 18, a maskless President Joe Biden declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The week preceding this declaration saw COVID-19 as the second leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease. Just a few weeks before, 16,000 COVID-related deaths...
Thoughts of an Elementary School Teacher in Oakland, CA We are back to school in year three of the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically pandemics appear to take 2.5-3.5 years to dissipate, so upon reflection, maybe it should not have been a surprise that we are still...
On July 23, 2022, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency. Since then, the governors of New York, Illinois, and California have declared states of emergency in their states as well. Thus far, there have been almost 6,000 confirmed...
The United States has reached a terrible milestone: over one million people have died of Covid. This continuing tragedy could have and should have been avoided. But instead of responding to the pandemic by protecting people’s lives, businesses and the government...
