Tuesday 24 August 2021

Privatised health services worsen pandemic

‘Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now even more pronounced with the pandemic. Austerity programmes, by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, have forced countries to cut public spending, including health provisioning.’

This story is well argued and contains several relevant and informative links under the following subheadings:

  • ‘Government is the problem’
  • Neoliberal reforms worse
  • Unhealthy reforms
  • Austerity kills
  • Government not main problem

Read here (IPS News, Aug 24, 2021) 

Worst ever Covid variant? Omicron

John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron.  View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)