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CDC Finds Huge Racial Disparities in Access to COVID Treatment Paxlovid
Black patients received Paxlovid for COVID-19 infection 36 percent less often than white patients.
Asbestos Ban Receives Renewed Push Following Chlorine Plant Investigation
A recent report by ProPublica has renewed calls to ban the importing and use of the potent carcinogen in the U.S.
We Must Shut Down Factory Farms to Protect Clean Water and Environmental Justice
The overwhelming majority of U.S. food systems are dominated by a handful of corporations that pollute our communities.
COVID Has Become Indefinite. We Need New Practices to Keep Each Other Safe.
Some community organizers are using consent-based practices to build a safer world as the state abandons public health.
Nuclear Power Isn’t Clean — It Creates Hellish Wastelands of Radioactive Sewage
Nuclear power carries with it an unbearable price tag: nightmarish contamination and the threat to survival itself.
US Is Overcome With Debt and Death. Let’s Fight Inequality to Stop This Crisis.
It is not debt cancellation that the nation can’t afford -- it is widening inequality that is too costly.
This CDC Scientist Couldn’t Access Monkeypox Treatment. Why?
It took three doctor visits -- and a desperate call to a colleague -- for a Black scientist to get treatment.
Underfunding Public Health Is a Decision to Let People Die in the Next Pandemic
Our public health system is chronically underfunded, understaffed and in some sites being stripped of its legal powers.
Judge Said Religious Employers Can Deny Preventive Care — a Dizzying Precedent
Today’s hearing will clarify the ruling letting employers off the hook for preventive care they associate with “sin.”
When We Rose to Fight COVID, We Were Deliberately Turned Against Each Other
There was a time when we came together to fight COVID, but that energy threatened the status quo more than the virus.