Daily Archives: April 11, 2022

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Not Ready for the End Game — Why Ending Federal Covid-19 Emergency Declarations Will Harm Access to Care | NEJM

When protesters call for an end to the Covid-19 emergency, they’re asking for a return to normalcy. Responding literally, as the Senate recently did in voting to terminate the declaration under the National Emergencies Act, won’t change the controversial requirements that drive opposition but will disrupt care and waste the opportunity for permanent implementation of the new systems that have proved successful. Source: Not Ready for the End Game — Why Ending Federal Covid-19 Emergency Declarations Will Harm Access to Care | NEJM

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Brazil’s largest indigenous reservation overrun by illegal gold mining, says report

An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil’s largest indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according to research and allegations included in a new report on Monday, blaming high gold prices and tacit government support. The report by the Hutukara Yanomami Association found a 46% rise in wildcat mining last year on rivers in the reservation where some 29,000 Yanomami live in northern Brazil, threatening isolated communities with little or no other outside contact. Under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has argued for more mining on indigenous land, law enforcement has failed to curb the growing invasion of Yanomami land.
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