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DESCRIPTION:On Sunday, August 22, the World Socialist Web Site is hosting an online 
 event featuring leading scientists from around the world. It will discuss 
 and outline the realistic and achievable measures that must be taken to 
 eradicate the coronavirus, stop the wave of death and end the pandemic. Its 
 aim is to provide the public with the information and knowledge it needs to 
 initiate a broad-based and determined world-wide popular movement to end 
 the pandemic and reclaim the future.\n\nThis event will feature three 
 distinguished scientists who have been in the forefront of the global fight 
 for eradication: Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, Dr. Deepti Gurdasani and 
 Professor Michael Baker. It will be moderated by World Socialist Web Site 
 Editor David North.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic is escalating. Amid the global 
 spread of the Delta variant, the number of daily new cases is approaching 
 all-time highs. There are growing reports of breakthrough infections. Most 
 ominously, the virus is infecting children in alarming numbers, resulting 
 in long-term debilitation and even death.\n\nInadequate and even blatantly 
 wrong policies have allowed the virus to spread and mutate into more 
 infectious and vaccine-resistant variants. The drive to fully reopen 
 schools worldwide, even as the virus spreads out of control, is socially 
 irresponsible and ignores the scientifically established facts about viral 
 transmission.\n\nCurrent media talk about “learning to live with the 
 pandemic” not only underestimates the extreme danger posed by a highly 
 infectious virus. It also justifies the refusal to take the measures that 
 are necessary to stop viral transmission and end the pandemic.\n\nThe world 
 faces a stark alternative: Either the eradication of COVID-19 or the 
 continuation of the pandemic for years to come, resulting in the long-term 
 debilitation and deaths of millions of infected people.\n\nOnly the first 
 alternative is acceptable. Without eradication, there can be no safe 
 workplace, let alone a safe “return to schools.” There is no 
 “acceptable” level of mortality which can be tolerated. The pandemic 
 can and must be defeated, but the only effective and scientifically based 
 strategy to save lives is one which is aimed at the eradication of 
 COVID-19.\n\nSunday August 22 \n5:00 PM - 7:00pm US Eastern Time\n\nTime 
 zone Conversions:\n\nSan Francisco: 2pm, Sunday, August 22\nMexico City: 
 4pm, Sunday, August 22\nLondon: 10pm, Sunday, August 22\nBerlin: 11pm, 
 Sunday, August 22\nIstanbul: 12am, Monday, August 23\nMumbai: 2.30am, 
 Monday, August 23\nBeijing: 5am, Monday, August 23\nSydney: 7am, Monday, 
 August 23\nAuckland: 9am, Monday, August 23\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/21/18844438.php
SUMMARY:For a global strategy to stop the pandemic and save lives!
LOCATION:An online meeting streamed at wsws.org/live\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/21/18844438.php
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