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250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India — The Free

Originally posted on The Most Revolutionary Act: Peoples Dispatch Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers and farmers and their allies across India participated in the pan-India strike action against the recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by the Narendra Modi government On Thursday, November 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history.…

250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India — The Free

CENSORED NEWS: Navajo Council say $300 million must revert to hardship relief — Navajo government in chaos over unspent federal virus relief funds

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

Source: CENSORED NEWS: Navajo Council say $300 million must revert to hardship relief — Navajo government in chaos over unspent federal virus relief funds

FTC warns of new Apple support call scam | AppleInsider

In the case of Apple, call recipients are informed of supposedly suspicious iCloud account activity or an outright breach. Fake calls from Amazon are similarly worded, claiming a user’s account shows suspicious purchase activity, a lost package, or problems with a recent order, the FTC says.

Source: FTC warns of new Apple support call scam | AppleInsider

Megachurch pastor dies of COVID-19 after church reopens – Los Angeles Times

An associate pastor for a megachurch in San Bernardino County died of COVID-19 about a month after the facility reopened indoor services.

Bob Bryant of the Water of Life Community Church in Fontana tested positive for the coronavirus in November and soon developed an aggressive pneumonia in both of his lungs, according to a post on the church’s Facebook site. He then suffered a heart attack. He ultimately was placed on a ventilator and died Monday. He was 58. RIP

Source: Megachurch pastor dies of COVID-19 after church reopens – Los Angeles Times

WHO trial finds no benefit of 4 drugs for hospital COVID patients | CIDRAP

None of the four once-promising drugs evaluated for the treatment of COVID-19 in the ongoing World Health Organization (WHO) Solidarity Trial—remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, or interferon-beta-1a—prevented in-hospital death, reduced the need for ventilation, or shortened the duration of hospitalization.

The interim results of the open-label study, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved randomly assigning hospitalized COVID-19 patients equally to whichever trial drugs were available locally or to a control group from Mar 22 to Oct 4.

Source: WHO trial finds no benefit of 4 drugs for hospital COVID patients | CIDRAP

Study: Kids, adults equally susceptible to in-home COVID-19 spread | CIDRAP

study published today in Pediatrics found that children in two states were just as likely as adults to become infected with COVID-19 within their households, and while kids spread the virus in one fifth of homes, their lack of severe symptoms may have allowed their infections to otherwise escape detection.

Led by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study enrolled 58 households with 120 adult and 68 pediatric contacts from March to May in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The study involved administering questionnaires and collecting blood and respiratory samples.

Source: Study: Kids, adults equally susceptible to in-home COVID-19 spread | CIDRAP