According to recent federal data, deaths from drug overdoses skyrocketed in 2020 – an increase of 30% compared to 2019. It was the highest number of overdose deaths recorded in a 12-month period in the history of the United States. “We have never seen that ever, a 30...
In Raj Patel’s latest book and Rupa Marya’s debut title, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice,” they peel back layers of just what the Covid pandemic has revealed about our society. As they open, “Your body is a part of a society inflamed. Covid has...
On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s...
On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913. This is 1 in 500 of the April 2020 U.S. Census population, 331.4 million. This staggering death toll is the work of both the Trump and Biden administrations, and the...
With school starting again, students, parents, teachers, other school personnel, and many community members are incredibly anxious about the spread of COVID, especially among young people who are not yet eligible for the vaccines. And we are right to be anxious. One...
