The purpose of this web page is to provide information and resources concerning the global pandemic called COVID-19.
The Global Pan African Movement, North America will use its platform to provide as accurate as possible information on the evolution, spread and morbidity of this pandemic in Global Africa. The book by Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present has laid out in grim details the experiences of Africans in the western health system. The pandemic has laid bare the extreme conditions under which African people live.
Introduction:
The Worldometer site gives up to date information every day on the deaths in each country.
COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic – https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
In the United States of America, the information is clear where more than 66 per cent of those succumbing to the pandemic has been African descendants.
This site will bring the most current information on what is happening in the struggles for heath.
In Africa, the John Hopkins University is posting the daily situation in Africa.
The African Union’s Position:
Given the response to HIV AIDS and Ebola, the African Union established the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework (CGHRF) – one of four global commissions established in the aftermath of the Ebola epidemic
African Union Support to Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA) as part of their efforts in eradicating Ebola in the continent. The establishment of ASEOWA was one of the decisions of the 450th Peace and Security Council Meeting of the AUC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on August 19th, 2014.
Center for Disease Control (CDC) for Africa to enhance the medical capability and research on the challenges Africa is facing with diseases, to start assessing and discussing the post Ebola socio-economic recovery phase for the affected countries.
As African descendants, it is known that major endemic diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, are becoming increasingly resistant to known medications.
Recommended Articles:
Basic information on how the virus works –
Introduction to the Viruses, https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/virus.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/10/heres-how-body-gains-immunity-coronavirus
Reports on the Virus in the USA:
https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate
As of Friday morning, African Americans made up almost half of Milwaukee County’s 945 cases and 81% of its 27 deaths in a county whose population is 26% black. Milwaukee is one of the few places in the United States that is tracking the racial breakdown of people who have been infected by the novel coronavirus, offering a glimpse at the disproportionate destruction it is inflicting on black communities nationwide.
In Michigan, where the state’s population is 14% black, African Americans made up 35% of cases and 40% of deaths as of Friday morning. Detroit, where a majority of residents are black, has emerged as a hot spot with a high death toll. As has New Orleans. Louisiana has not published case breakdowns by race, but 40% of the state’s deaths have happened in Orleans Parish, where the majority of residents are black.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/stop-looking-away-race-covid-19-victims/609250/
On Friday, the Illinois Department of Public Health became one of the few state offices to release some racial data. And the data showed a pandemic within the pandemic: African Americans are significantly overrepresented in infection rates in Illinois, while whites and Latinos are significantly underrepresented. African Americans make up 14.6 percent of the state population, but 28 percent of confirmed cases of the coronavirus. White people comprise 76.9 percent of the Illinois population, and 39 percent of the confirmed cases. Latinos comprise 17.4 percent of the state population, and 7 percent of the cases. In Illinois, Asian Americans were the only racial group without a significant disparity between their state population, at 5.9 percent, and confirmed cases, at 4 percent. (Nearly a third of cases were recorded as “other” or left blank. Illinois did not release racial data on Native Americans, or on testing, hospitalization, and death rates by race.)
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/04/02/black-people-make-up-12-of-michigans-population-and-at-least-40-of-its-coronavirus-deaths
The coronavirus is infecting and killing an alarming proportion of Black residents in Michigan.
Black people make up 12% of Michigan’s population. But of the state’s 417 coronavirus deaths, 40% are Black, 26% are white, 30% are unknown, and 4% are mixed race or other, according to data released Thursday by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).
Of the nearly 11,000 who tested positive for the coronavirus, 35% are Black, 25% white, 34% are unknown. An additional 6% represent other races.
Impact of the Virus on political organizing from mainstream economist.
Saving Lives or Saving Capitalism
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/07/pers-a07.html
COVID-19 exposes fragile world order, thin veneer of civilization – Published in SUNS #9096 dated 7 April 2020
Reports on the Virus and Africa
https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19
Coercive responses of African governments to COVID 19
International Solidarity
Cuba Continues African Solidarity in COVID-19 Battle
US would welcome AID from Cuba
