Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. than on white people.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first is a scene from the film “And The Band Played On,” based on the book of the same name, about the AIDS epidemic. As I repeat the unpleasant realization that help is not on the way from above, and attempt to think my way out of the assumptions that set me up for future unpleasant astonishment, I keep returning to two works of art.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In our forthcoming book, Health Communism , we write that “health” is an impossibility under capitalism. So, if there are lessons to be had from COVID, we find them here: in the moments where what could appear to be state failure are revealed as intentional sites of abandonment.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

By Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Interestingly, these are two of the most prominent life science companies that have been part of Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Among the top 20 in this study were two pharma brands — Pfizer and AstraZeneca. The coronavirus re-shaped people in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

He is the author of the book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. . The post Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As a MarketWatch headline put it , “Dow, S&P 500 book best day in two weeks after Biden vows no return to March 2020-style lockdowns as Omicron rages.”. And for Wall Street, the speech was meant to provide a crucial piece of reassurance: There would be no federal support for public health measures that restrict commerce.

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