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Allowing the #COVID19 public health emergency declaration to expire, the Biden admin has codified into law that COVID-19 will remain permanently embedded in society, continuing to infect, disable and kill masses of people for the foreseeable future. A🧵1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The expiration of the PHE was the 3rd and final measure dissolving all official response to the pandemic in the US. It follows the April 1 lifting of Medicaid disenrollment restrictions & the April 10 ending of the COVID national emergency declaration. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The most consequential was the cutoff of Medicaid disenrollment restrictions, which the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates could cause up to 24 million Americans (including 7 million children) to lose access to Medicaid over the coming year. 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
According to the CDC, 6.1% of American adults presently have #LongCovid, meaning that >1 million adults suffering from this often debilitating affliction could now lose healthcare coverage. #CovidIsNotOver #GreatUnwinding 4/ cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/p…
Future distribution of COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines will be privatized once existing supplies are used up in the coming months. For the poorest and most at-risk sections of the population, their marked-up prices will be totally unaffordable. 5/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Across the US, hospital systems will face growing financial pressures. The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform forecasts that more than 200 rural hospitals could be forced to close in the next two to three years. 6/ usnews.com/news/health-ne….
Last Friday, the CDC said they will seize upon this public health wrecking operation to dismantle their COVID infection data reporting system. Once again, this now discredited agency is toeing the line of the White House to cover up the spread of COVID. 7/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The ending of the PHE takes place less than a week after the @WHO abruptly lifted the PHEIC for COVID. Undoubtedly, US imperialism exerted pressure behind the scenes on the WHO to end the PHEIC in order to justify the lifting of the PHE in the US. 8/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The ending of these declarations of emergency has nothing to do with science, but rather expresses the economic & political imperatives of the capitalist ruling elites who are determined to force a “return to normal” in order to maximize their profits. 9/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
They mark the culmination of the past 1.5 years of unrelenting propaganda in response to the November 2021 emergence of the highly infectious and immune-evasive #Omicron variant, which was falsely proclaimed “mild” and no more harmful than the flu. 10/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
In reality, COVID has always been & remains a dangerous pathogen which continues to mutate rapidly. While official figures on infections & deaths are meaningless, wastewater & excess death estimates show that viral transmission & lethality remain high. 11/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
For this week, The Economist estimates that there have been 14,000 excess deaths/day attributable to the pandemic, while the cumulative total now stands at 22 million, making COVID-19 still the third-leading cause of death globally. 12/ economist.com/graphic-detail…
In numerous articles and interviews in recent weeks, scientists have warned of the ongoing dangers of viral evolution. 13/ washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05…
A May 1 article noted, “Currently, SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein, in which most immunity-evading mutations occur, is evolving at 2X the rate of a similar protein in seasonal influenza and ~10X as quickly as those of cold-causing ‘seasonal’ coronaviruses.” 14/ nature.com/articles/d4158…
At any point, a far more dangerous variant could evolve which is more deadly, transmissible and immune-evasive, essentially restarting the pandemic at square one by nullifying the life-saving impacts of existing vaccines and treatments. 15/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Then there is the historically unprecedented “mass disabling event” of #LongCovid, which scientists have compared to the underwater portion of an iceberg. 16/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
An article in Foreign Policy notes, “Tens of millions cases of long COVID-19 have been diagnosed worldwide—certainly an undercount—with at least a third of those impacted suffering neurological or cardiovascular damage that is proving disabling.” 17/ foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/09/pan…
Scientific evidence continues to indicate that COVID-19 reinfections, which are increasingly common, heighten one’s risk of developing Long COVID. 18/ medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
The response of the corporate media to the public health implications of ending the PHE has been largely muted, with far more commentary on the lifting of Title 42 immigration restrictions and the militarized crackdown on immigrants at the border. 19/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The capitalists' abandonment of public health must be taken as a warning by the international working class. There is no limit to the level of mass death and suffering that they are willing to tolerate to maintain their power and the flow of profits. 20/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Over the past year, this has found sharp expression in their efforts to normalize the use of nuclear weapons amid the escalating US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine. #WarOnWar #WorldWarIII #UkraineRussiaWar️ 21/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The ruling elites have viewed the pandemic as a positive good for lowering life expectancy, and there are growing indications that future pandemics—which scientists warn are increasingly likely due to climate change—will be met with total inaction. 22/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
In one of the few articles on the ending of the PHE, the New York Times published a statement Thursday by Ezekiel Emanuel, Michael Osterholm, and other members of Biden’s post-election COVID transition team. 23/ nytimes.com/2023/05/11/opi…
Emanuel is a well-known advocate of lowering life expectancy whose long-held eugenicist beliefs have only become more open during the pandemic. 24/
https://twitter.com/ZekeEmanuel/status/1618019838437490689
Calling into question the life-saving policy of school closures, they claim that in future pandemics, “In-person education can continue during a respiratory pandemic like Covid, even before a vaccine is developed.” 25/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
It is now clear that the only limit to the level of deaths from COVID & future pandemics will be resistance in the population. This requires the education of the working class in the principles of public health & a Marxist understanding of capitalism. 26/ mehring.com/product/covid-…
The @ICFI_WSWS and @SEP_US are the only political movement which has continuously opposed the homicidal policies of every capitalist government & sought to arm workers with a scientific understanding of what must be done to stop the pandemic globally. 27/ wsws.org/endcovid
In November 2021, the WSWS, the organ of the ICFI, launched the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, which remains the only independent investigation into the crimes that have been committed by capitalist governments and corporations. 28/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
In the face of the deepening COVID cover-up, the Inquest will continue its work globally, and we urge all workers and scientists to participate. #GlobalWorkersInquest #CovidInquest 29/ wsws.org/covidinquest
The Inquest is a critical component of thefight to rebuild a socialist culture within the working class. The life-and-death character of this struggle is underscored by the experience of the pandemic and the escalating danger of World War III. 30/ wsws.org/covidinquest
Only through the socialist overturn of the capitalist system will the threat of pandemics, nuclear war, and fascism be stopped, and the social rights of the international working class—including the right to public health and longevity—be secured. 31/31 wsws.org/join
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