Exhausted Massachusetts nurse drives off top of parking garage
The near-fatal accident at Boston’s Faulkner Hospital calls attention to the increasing problem of drowsy driving among nurses.
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The near-fatal accident at Boston’s Faulkner Hospital calls attention to the increasing problem of drowsy driving among nurses.
“The brutal assault on the Palestinian people is just one front in a global war instigated by US imperialism and its allies which threatens to escalate into a nuclear war.”
The Palestine-born doctor, now working in south Florida, is the author of a new book on the health impacts of modern warfare.
“Socialist opponents of the Ukraine war are being demonised as traitors just as opponents of the Gaza genocide are being slandered as antisemitic and terrorist supporters.” – Dr Zewlan Moor
The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
This video describes the current surge of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reviews the immense societal impacts of Long COVID and outlines a strategy of what must be done to end the pandemic. It has subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish and Italian.
On October 27 Montreal port workers held another one-day strike, while 1,300 pilots at Allegiant are set to vote to authorize a strike after going 8 years without a wage rise.
A big strength of the study is the significant number of people examined, which enabled the researchers to assess the effects of the vaccines across a wide variety of demographics and clinical subgroups, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and prior health conditions.
Eighty six percent of union members voted overwhelmingly to authorize strike action against Michigan Medicine to win their demands for wage and benefits increases and an end to understaffing at the University of Michigan hospital system.
What the investigation has revealed is not just the criminal acts of malicious individuals. It also exposes the nature of the current healthcare system, which is increasingly being hollowed out in a capitalist system where profit comes before human life.
In this video testimony, Catherine Pace’s family describes the working conditions which led to her death and the deaths of countless other autoworkers during the still-raging pandemic.
Ed, a retired auto worker, and Tammy, a retired care worker, have been “living with” COVID-19 for two years, and they’ve had enough.
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.