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![World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press briefing at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 6, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1250883134-400x300.jpg)
WHO Declares End of COVID Emergency, But Pandemic Inequality Is Still Rampant
A 2022 study found that pharmaceutical companies' hoarding of vaccines cost over a million lives by the end of 2021.
![People receive aid in a parking lot outside of a teal van with the words "community care van" printed on the side](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0502-community-care-van-400x300.jpg)
Pandemic-Era Programs Are Coming to End — But the Fight for Justice Isn’t
The helpful programs, as well as the national missteps, can teach us how to chart a better path forward as a society.
![An activist hold a bullhorn and raises a fist in the air in a crowd of people holding signs that read "UAW on strike"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-1245289556-400x300.jpg)
University of California Workers Center Disability Justice in Union Organizing
Workers built solidarity by rejecting the “deserving vs. undeserving” disabled model and scarcity approach to access.
![Cars left stranded in widespread flooding near Corcoran, California, on March 23, 2023, are pictured alongside the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and California State Prison-Corcoran.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/2023_0414-empty-prison-400x300.jpg)
2 California Prisons Face Imminent Flooding. They Must Be Evacuated Now.
California prison authorities have a history of failing to evacuate incarcerated people for weather-related emergencies.
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Millions Live With Long COVID as Biden Declares End to National Emergency
Science writer Ryan Prior discusses the movement to expand research and resources for those with long COVID.
![Hundreds of 1199SEIU health care workers staged a rally and sit to block 3rd avenue, where some were arrested, to protest health care cuts in Governor Kathy Hochul's budget on March 29, 2023 in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-1249984450-400x300.jpg)
15 Million People May Lose Health Coverage as Medicaid “Purge” Begins
As Congress lets COVID-era coverage mandates expire, some states are jumping at the opportunity to take away benefits.
![An illustration of a man holding a tattered surgical mask with a few pieces of produce clinging to it](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_0330-covid-food-400x300.jpg)
Food Banks Fear “New and Growing Crisis” of Hunger as COVID-Era Benefits End
Emergency food aid was slashed to pre-COVID levels this March, forcing food pantries to scramble to meet a growing need.
![An FFP2 mask is seen lying on a wet pavement in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 18, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_0324-discarded-mask-400x300.jpg)
I’m Immunocompromised. I Know Ableism Is Oppression. We Need Disability Justice.
To protect the growing immunocompromised population, we need to practice collective care.
![Movement Memos - a Truthout Podcast - banner with guest Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and host Kelly Hayes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_0213-movement-memos-400x300.jpg)
Disability Justice Organizers Dream Big and Resist a Culture of Disposability
Disabled mutual aid sees us as people who have skills and gifts to offer, says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
![Andrea James, executive director of the National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, waves to people banging on the windows of the South Bay House of Correction in Boston on May 9, 2021. Calling for the release of incarcerated women, members of several groups rallied at MCI Framingham and then rode in a caravan to Boston, during the continuing coronavirus pandemic.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_0221-prison-400x300.jpg)
Prison Deaths Increased by 50 Percent in the First Year of the COVID Pandemic
In six states, the rate of deaths in prisons doubled between 2019 and 2020.