Trump picking RFK Jr. to head the HHS is perhaps his most provocative selection so far. Amid the 10th COVID wave and the looming danger of a bird flu pandemic, this anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist & raw milk advocate will be at the helm of America's public health agencies. 1/ Last year, he stated, "We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years."

He morphed the Wuhan Lab Lie into an antisemitic conspiracy theory, insinuating that Chinese & Jewish scientists engineered the virus to kill Christians. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The mass infection policies advocated by this fascistic quack have led to the deaths of roughly 1.5 million Americans and the debilitation of >20 million more with #LongCovid, the vast majority of them workers. To posture as being "pro-worker" is the most cynical fraud. 1/

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The WSWS has called for the global elimination of COVID. This requires a massive allocation of resources to deploy all available public health measures: infrastructure renovation to clean indoor air, masking, next-generation vaccines, mass testing, etc. 2/ wsws.org/en/topics/even…

“Money over lives: The tragic case of Noah Lyles’ collapse at the Paris Olympics”

🧵on today’s WSWS Perspective. #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… The horrific collapse of Noah Lyles at the Olympics due to his infection with COVID has shocked masses of people. While downplayed by the media, this event exposes the reality that the pandemic is ongoing and remains dangerous for the entire population. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

“The latest wave of COVID-19 and Biden’s destruction of public health” 🧵of today’s WSWS Perspective.

On Friday, the CDC updated its COVID-19 wastewater tracker, showing that the ninth wave of mass infection is continuing across the United States. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Using these data, @JPWeiland estimates that 760,000 Americans are now contracting COVID-19 each day. He warned that KP.3.1.1 will become dominant within 2 weeks and likely push transmission even higher. 2/

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🧵Today’s WSWS Perspective addresses the growing threat of an #H5N1 bird flu pandemic, which takes place under conditions of the destruction of public health globally. We advance a clear program of action for workers to stop this unfolding disaster. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… “I am anti-alarmist, but I would say that I have never been more worried in my career than I am about H5N1. Even when COVID-19 had started to spread extensively outside China in 2019, I was not as worried as I am now about H5N1.” @Millerlab_atMac 2/ thespec.com/news/hamilton-…

After 2 months of silence, The Economist finally updated their tracker of excess deaths attributable to the #Covid_19 pandemic. Their cumulative total now stands at 28.5 million, and there were >700,000 excess deaths over the past 3 months. #COVIDisNotOver 1/ Despite the official cover-up of the corporate media and every world government, the ongoing global wave of the JN.1 variant has marked the 4th winter of mass infection, death and debilitation. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The 4th fall-winter C*VID wave has begun, fueled by new and potentially more dangerous variants which are increasingly difficult to track. With no airborne mitigations in place anywhere, SARS-CoV-2 has been given free rein to continue wreaking havoc globally. 1/ "The abandonment of any sound public health approach to the COVID pandemic and all other infectious pathogens is simply a criminal endeavor by the capitalist ruling elite for which the population is made to suffer the acute and long-term consequences." 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The awarding of the #NobelPrize jointly to @kkariko & @WeissmanLab is justly deserved. It has all the more significance in that it takes place under conditions of a vast right-wing anti-science campaign, targeting #mRNA vaccines in particular. 🧵 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Through their collaboration at the University of Pennsylvania since 1997, Karikó and Weissman conducted pioneering research that made possible the rapid creation of anti-COVID mRNA vaccines in 2020, which saved the lives of millions of people globally. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

This interview was far too uncritical, in line with Mehdi Hasan's pro-Democratic Party politics. Fauci is totally complicit in the pandemic propaganda, including on #LongCovid. Less than a month ago, he said the vulnerable will "fall by the wayside," which Hasan ignores. 1/

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The WSWS wrote this widely-shared Perspective on Fauci's comments, which were only the latest in a series of eugenicist statements from the highest levels of the American state. The pandemic has revealed the underlying rot of the ruling class. 2/
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By multiple early indications, the US has entered yet another surge of the pandemic, with wastewater levels, emergency room visits for COVID and test positivity rates all ↗️ across much of the country. 🧵 #CovidIsntOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… In the past 3 weeks, Biobot showed a 46% ↗️ in wastewater levels, concentrated in the South & on the coasts. According to @JPWeiland, these wastewater levels translate to ~280,000 Americans presently being infected with COVID each day and rising. 2/

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I urge everyone to read this 2-part interview that @BenjaminMateus7 did with @arijitchakrav. It is a devastating indictment of the global pandemic response and the reversal of centuries of struggle to develop public health. A🧵of some key quotes. 1/
wsws.org/en/articles/20… "hybrid immunity essentially is a new term that has been coined (as have so many others during the pandemic) to explain, and—excuse the analogy—to “polish the turd” of repeated reinfection." 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

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…

I interviewed @MeetJess on the death of 6-year-old Jimari Williams from a “mystery illness” in Detroit & the broader context of governments dismantling all mitigation measures to slow the spread of #COVID19 and other pathogens. A🧵of key quotes. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… "Until an autopsy is done, we can’t say for certain whether he died of COVID or another illness. Will we ever know what happened to this child? I don’t know. But why haven’t they brought back masks into the school? " #BringBackMasks 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

This image of students masking at a public event hosted by @IYSSE_SDSU has been greeted with enthusiasm by workers and scientists globally. It proves that when educated and provided with a political perspective, workers and youth will protect themselves and others. 1/

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In addition to near-universal masking (only 3/120 didn't), we used @far_uv lamps, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, good ventilation, and testing by event organizers. These measures must be implemented everywhere, as part of a global strategy to stop the pandemic. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

🧵Today marks 1 year since the WHO designated #Omicron a Variant of Concern. This most infectious and immune-resistant variant was seized upon to scrap all remaining mitigation measures and normalize the pandemic globally. #CovidIsntOver #BringBackMasks 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Over the past year, billions of people have been infected globally. Officially, 1.4 million people have been killed by #Omicron, but excess death estimates place the real global death toll over the past year at 5.2 million, or 1/4 of all #COVID deaths. 2/ economist.com/graphic-detail…

🧵In the past week, the Chinese government has initiated a dangerous shift away from the #ZeroCovid strategy which has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic. If the situation spirals out of control, it would threaten millions of lives. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… The clearest evidence for this change is last Friday’s issuance of 20 measures by the National Health Commission which curtail every aspect of the #ZeroCovid policy, under conditions in which daily new cases have risen over tenfold since late October. 2/ reuters.com/world/china/ch…

🧵The unprecedented crisis in children's hospitals proves the need for a socialist public health program. Children don’t owe an “immunity debt,” they deserve to live in a society which prioritizes their health & future. #BringBackMasks #CovidIsntOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Over the past month, children’s hospitals across the US have entered an unprecedented crisis. They are being inundated with a wave of infants and toddlers hospitalized with a range of respiratory illnesses, well before the normal peak in December. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The #RSV surge, as well as the coming flu & #COVID surges, are due to the capitalist assault on public health. Each of these viruses and other respiratory pathogens, which are collectively among the worst killers in the world, could be eliminated globally. #COVIDIsAirborne 1/ From July 2021: "The impact of the measures aimed at COVID-19 was to reduce the US death toll from ordinary influenza from 34,000 to 600, a staggering 98 to 99 percent. Child deaths dropped from 200 to only one." @NoraDia43199887
@BenjaminMateus7 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

🧵Dangerous new #COVID variants threaten a massive fall-winter surge, which has already begun in Singapore & other countries.

Today’s WSWS perspective reviews the latest science and draws the necessary political conclusions. #CovidIsntOver #ZeroCovid 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Due to the dismantling of testing globally, official infection figures are now worthless. The @IHME estimates ~21 million people were infected globally on Wednesday, up 23% from the most recent trough of ~17 million infections on Sept. 27. 2/ covid19.healthdata.org/global?view=cu…

I gave this report to the @SEP_US 7th Congress on August 1. It reviews the historical background the #COVID19 pandemic, the implications of the “forever COVID” policy & the fight for a #ZeroCovid global elimination strategy. #CovidIsntOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… The report was given to motivate this Congress resolution, which was unanimously adopted. As part of the @ICFI_WSWS, we are the only political party in the world fighting to stop the pandemic and massively expand public health & healthcare. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

We're proud to announce that @Mehring_Books is publishing Volume 1 of “COVID, Capitalism, and Class War.” I wrote this introduction to the book, which is a compilation of the unmatched coverage of @WSWS_Updates on the #COVID19 pandemic. #CovidIsNotOver 1/
wsws.org/en/articles/20… Volume 1 is available for pre-order as an e-pub here, which will be published on September 30. It will also be released in abridged form as a print volume later this year. #CovidIsntOver 2/ mehring.com/product/covid-…