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Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
29 Dec 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US

“The US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the people” in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writer anthology “Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China and the US.” The US accounts for a quarter of the world’s infections and a third of deaths, a catastrophe due to “the cost of health care for profit, of no national health care, and no national coordination,” said Flounders, who notes that the US “does not lack infrastructure in police, in the military, and in prisons.”

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