The criminal responsibility of the Chilean state for the COVID-related crisis
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Science) shed further light on how long-standing class war and malign neglect policies against the poorest sections of the working class have played out during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile. They add weight to a mountain of evidence that the state’s class-based health care system bears criminal responsibility for the avoidable deaths of tens of thousands and the spread of the disease in the working class population.
The latest epidemiological study, released by the Chilean Ministry of Health on Wednesday, reported 1,907,154 accumulated cases since March 2020 and 43,855 deaths associated with the coronavirus. This tragedy is the product of deliberate policies. The rapid and unabated spread of coronavirus across every part of the nation is due to the prioritization of the economic interests of the corporate and financial elite above all else.
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Chilean health authorities announced a blanket lockdown across the capital Santiago on Thursday following some of the worst COVID-19 case numbers since the pandemic began, despite having fully vaccinated more than half its population.