coronavirus

Coronavirus pandemic over? ‘Not so fast,’ says AFL-CIO

February 1, 2023 By Mark Gruenberg

Backed up by the data and with thousands still dying every week, the nation’s largest labor federation calls for continuing measures designed to protect the American people.

Warning: U.S. capitalism is lethal (and bad for your health)

January 12, 2023 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

There is a lot of extra dying going on in the United States.

Abandoning ‘zero COVID,’ China fights virus surge before Lunar New Year

January 6, 2023 By Combined Sources

Hospitals in the cities are packed, while rural towns worry about holiday visitors pouring in and overwhelming unprepared health facilities.

Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class

September 28, 2022 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

COVID and racism combine to drag down the number of years Americans live, but what about economic class?

Court bounces another union try for permanent federal coronavirus protection

September 7, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO and National Nurses United raise the alarm about the issue of protection on the job.