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"Canada failed to learn lessons from past pandemics"
By admin - Published on Wednesday, 08 April 2020 15:34
"Canada has failed to learn vital lessons from past pandemics, and front-line workers are now paying the price, according to some of Canada's top health-care associations.
They say Canada entered the COVID-19 crisis without enough personal protective equipment, ventilators or workers — and a health-care system that routinely operates over capacity."
"BC Boosts Pay for Long-Term Care Workers amidst COVID-19"
By admin - Published on Wednesday, 08 April 2020 15:30
"The B.C. government is taking over as the employer of all long-term care workers in the province in response to the COVID-19 threat in seniors’ homes.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said this week that every worker would be hired full-time and paid standardized wages for the next six months."
Read more: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/01/Long-Term-Care-Worker-Pay-Boosted/
Lack of decent compensation, high risks for all health care workers
By admin - Published on Wednesday, 08 April 2020 15:24
"In New York City “doctors are getting sick everywhere,” William P. Jaquis , president of the American College of Emergency Physicians told the New York Times. Two New York nurses have already died. In Italy, where hospital systems are on the verge of total collapse, 4,824 health-care workers had been infected with the virus as of March 22; 61 doctors have died, 40 of them in Lombardy, Italy’s worst hit region."
"The Rise of Neo-Feudalism"
By admin - Published on Wednesday, 08 April 2020 15:17
"The history of the modern democratic state can be understood as a story of shifting authority and lawmaking, first from private potentates to sovereign monarchs, and then to publicly accountable democracies. Today, this centuries-long democratizing trend is rapidly being reversed. Western democracies are not simply embracing neoliberalism in the sense of deregulating the economy. Elites are pursuing something aptly described as a new form of feudalism, in which entire realms of public law, public property, due process, and citizen rights revert to unaccountable control by private business.
The system of finance, once supervised by bank regulatory agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been delegated to private realms of law. The financial collapse of 2008 is best understood as the seizure, corruption, and abuse of entire domains of regulation and jurisprudence. Laws to protect workers and consumers, reflecting 70 years of struggle to expand rights, are now erased by compulsory arbitration regimes. Trade law permits..."
Read more: https://prospect.org/economy/rise-of-neo-feudalism/
"How a simple plastic box could protect health-care workers across Canada from COVID-19"
By admin - Published on Wednesday, 08 April 2020 15:09
"In a WhatsApp group for physicians, where COVID-19 articles were flying back and forth, her colleague Dr. Daniel Shogilev shared coverage of a doctor in Taiwan who'd developed a transparent plastic shield to cover patients during intubation, helping reduce the risk to clinicians.
That was a few weeks ago in mid-March. Wong knew some people outside the medical community who might be able to help make the concept a reality in Canada, and a small team hoping to develop what they've since dubbed the "COVID Box" met on a Zoom teleconference..."
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