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  1. Unsanitized: Vaccine Development Should Trigger Transformation of Monopoly Patent System
    12 Dec 2020 … For the long-run threat to innovation, considering that companies used public money to develop the vaccine, and it worked in record time, the only thing that should be questioned is the current patent-based system. Innovation seemed to work fine with Continue reading
  2. Unsanitized: Vaccine News Should Make People More Cautious of COVID Pfizer's corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … Pfizer is out this morning saying that an early look at its Phase 3 trial for the coronavirus vaccine shows that there’s been a 90 percent effectiveness rate. It’s important to begin with the point that this is preliminary and not Continue reading
  3. We’ll Need More Vaccines in a Warming World Child getting vaccinated
    2 Feb 2015 … Vaccines protect vulnerable populations from diseases that will be made worse by climate change, especially in developing nations. Continue reading
  4. The Electoral College Has Spoken
    12 Dec 2020 … December 14, 2020 Today, Americans began receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Dr. Michelle Chester administered the vaccine to Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, the first American to get the vaccine. Lindsay is a Covid nurse Continue reading
  5. A Second Patriot Act and ‘Bracing for Bioterror: Weighing the Costs of the Smallpox Vaccine’ patriot act- lady liberty
    2 Feb 2003 … This episode of NOW investigates what the Patriot Act does to the balance of security and liberty, and analyzes the threat of smallpox as a bio-weapon. Continue reading
  6. Unsanitized: Vaccination, Just Billions of Dollars Away From Success
    12 Dec 2020 … A lot of positive signs, but states need money to distribute the doses. Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: We’ve Given Almost Nothing to States and Cities for Vaccine Distribution
    11 Nov 2020 … How you get a drug manufactured, stored, and shipped to every corner of the globe, to be administered, twice, to virtually everyone on the planet is not small matter. At some point the science gives way to a logistics operation Continue reading
  8. Fighting COVID Should Not Be A Partisan Issue Pfizer is out this morning saying that an early look at its Phase 3 trial for the coronavirus vaccine shows that there’s been a 90 percent effectiveness rate at preventing infection.
    12 Dec 2020 … The E.U. has twice the Pfizer vaccine that the US.does. The company says it will not have more vaccines available for purchase until next June or July. Continue reading
  9. Unsanitized: The Great Race of Vaccination Versus Mutation
    1 Jan 2021 … There, the B.1.1.7 variant of the virus is at an advanced stage, responsible for most new cases. One in thirty people in London are infected right now. The Royal Mail has had to be cut back because too many postal Continue reading
  10. Moving Ahead on Vaccines and Some Evangelical Leaders Disavow Trump
    12 Dec 2020 … While a president-elect generally stays quiet in the weeks before taking office under the principle that America has only one president at a time, Biden is indicating that he will not stay silent in the face of mounting deaths the Continue reading