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
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🧵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-…

The Biden admin’s declaration of a public health emergency over #monkeypox is long overdue, coming 2.5 months after the 1st case was detected. Their disastrous response to monkeypox coincides with their brutal enforcement of a “forever COVID” policy. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Disturbingly, there was a clear effort to minimize the announcement and the profound dangers of monkeypox, with the White House YouTube channel and every broadcast news outlet choosing not to show the live press conference. @nicolassmit @UniversalMaski2 2/
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Biden’s #COVID19 infection marks a major turning point in the US pandemic response. It was utilized to openly state their brutal new pandemic policy: Everyone will get infected with COVID-19, repeatedly, year after year, forever. #CovidIsNotOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… Sometime in June the decision was made to lift the safety precautions in place to protect Biden from contracting COVID. In recent weeks, numerous photos and videos were staged at large indoor events and meetings internationally in which he was maskless. 2/
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A 🧵of clips from our recent video, “What must be done to end the pandemic.”

1st, on the surge of #BA5: “If the pandemic is over, why are millions of people being infected and thousands continuing to die and be debilitated worldwide every week?” #CovidIsNotOver 1/ On excess deaths: “A more accurate picture of the reality of the pandemic can be seen by looking at excess mortality, which is an estimate of how many people would still be alive today if it weren’t for the pandemic.” #COVID19 #EndCovid @UpupaEp55949188 @CyFi10 @MeetJess 2/

The #COVID19 pandemic is once again spiraling out of control, driven by the highly contagious and immune-evading Omicron #BA4 & #BA5 subvariants. North America, Europe, Brazil & Australia are at the epicenter of the latest global surge. #CovidIsNotOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… The global 7-day average of daily new cases now stands at 661,420, a 42% increase since the trough in late May! Official new infections are rising despite the dismantling of surveillance and reporting, with test positivity rates rising in each of these countries and regions. 2/

Contrary to the relentless propaganda from the political establishment and corporate media of nearly every country, #CovidIsNotOver and the pandemic will worsen in the coming weeks and months. #LongCovid #BA4 #BA5 #COVID19 @DmodosCutter @patientled 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20… The highly infectious, vaccine-resistant and pathogenic #Omicron BA.4 & BA.5 subvariants are quickly becoming dominant globally and threaten another surge of infections and deaths from #COVID19. @PPEtoheros @WalkerBragman 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…