Old-Age Poverty

By Gerald C. Koinyeneh Monrovia — A group of elderly residents residing in Samukai Field Community within the Logan Town area over the weekend benefited from a donation of fifteen bags of rice from the Prince & Tawa Foundation, a local humanitarian group. The Samukai Field Community is considered as…

“We can’t keep doing this 100-percent stay-at-home, extreme physical distancing indefinitely, but we also can’t go back to business as usual at this point. There has to be some middle ground,” said Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. “Now is the time to figure out…

Skip to comments. WHO dismisses herd immunity as strategy to combat Covid-19 Denverchanncel ^ Posted on 05/13/2020 9:40:10 AM PDT by avkillick Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization’s Executive Director of Health Emergencies, did not mince words when the organization was asked on Monday about the concept of herd immunity.…

Sir Ian Diamond said an 'L-shaped' recovery – in which the economy takes several years to return to pre-crisis levels – would lead to a notable increase in mortality - ReutersA long, drawn-out economic recovery will lead to a "significant number" of indirect deaths from coronavirus, the UK's chief statistician…

One has to hold begrudging admiration for the determination of the enemies of Social Security among Republicans and conservatives: Not only are they refusing to let a global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic divert them from the long-term campaign to undermine the program, they’re using the crisis to justify…

View photosSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is fretting about the federal deficit, now that billions are going to working people in coronavirus aid, rather than to the wealthy via a tax cut.  (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)One has to hold begrudging admiration for the determination of the enemies…

I'm trying to figure out why some people still aren't taking curcumin. The only reasons I can come up with are that maybe their testosterone levels and sperm quality are irreproachable and they don't need any help modulating their estrogen receptors, thank you. It could also be that that their…

Emma Watson conducted an interview/conversation with Professor Valerie Hudson, author of Sex and World Peace, a data-driven examination of what happens when governments are male-dominated and toxic, and when women are driven out of any political power. I came into this transcript of their conversation simply hoping to grab a…

Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total…

The European Commission has recommended keeping the EU's external borders closed to non-EU citizens in an effort to prevent a second wave of the novel coronavirus. Follow DW for the latest. - The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen to over 272,000, while more than 3.8 million people are known to have…