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 January 1, 22,000 patients covered by Tufts Health Direct health insurance lost in-network coverage at UMASS Memorial Health and Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, resulting in a situation where patients must either switch doctors or find new health insurance.
Labor plans to slash $60 billion from disability funding over the next decade, imposing stricter eligibility criteria and cost-cutting assessment tools.
In Brisbane, Dr Zewlan Moor said she was speaking as a socialist, condemned the complicity of the Australian government in the genocide and called for an independent movement of the working class to fight it.
The workers’ primary demands include safer staffing levels, livable wages, tangible improvements in working conditions, and reliable, affordable healthcare.
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.