These comments from international workers opened the International May Day Online Rally on May 1. Visit the main rally page at wsws.org/mayday.
Trump-Kennedy attacks on vaccines and public health will kill millions globally
Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a coordinated abandonment of America’s role in global health leadership with devastating consequences for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
New study shows immense impact of public health on life expectancy
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
Kennedy’s hand-picked ACIP elevates anti-vaccine pseudoscience into US public health policy
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
Sri Lankan government continues to ignore the rise of COVID-19 and other dangerous infections
While public concern is rising over the worsening situation, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna/National People’s Power (JVP/NPP) government is concealing the true extent of the spread of this and other highly infectious diseases.