Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children.

I'm your host, Richard Wolff.

In today's program, we're going to be talking about a number of particularly medical issues,

the impact of COVID deaths in the United States, who was affected.

We're also going to be talking about poverty in the United States, about the problem of

immigrants as they are being held back by the leaders of the United States and Canada.

Military strikes by the United States and the contrast between that and the global activities

of China, finally we'll be looking at Amazon's free delivery, which is going down the tubes.

And then we'll have an interview with Dr. William Bronson, a leading physician with the

struggle for a universal single-payer health system in the United States.

So let's get busy, we've got a lot to cover.

COVID deaths in the United States have been studied now, systematically, state-by-state across

the 50 states of the United States, with a report issued in the very important British

medical journal called the Lancet.

And in this study, one reality is hammered home, that the income, class, racial, educational,

many qualities of the United States were made worse by COVID.

In other words, COVID deaths are higher among non-whites than whites, among poorer people

relative to richer people, more among poorly educated compared to those with much education,

and more among people who voted for Donald Trump than among people who didn't.

But all of that together think about it.

The United States doesn't have a medical insurance system that covers everybody more or less equally.

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