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  1. Morning Reads: SCOTUS OKs TX Voter ID; Possible Ebola Vaccine? A medical worker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers who are working on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, works at their laboratory in Entebbe 42kms (29 miles) from the capital Kampala Thursday Aug. 2, 2012. The latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda has dimmed hopes of a successful year for the country's growing tourism industry, government officials and tour operators said as tourists began to cancel trips amid rising cases of the deadly disease in the East African country. However the CDC team leader in Uganda says there is no cause of alarm since the disease is now under control. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
    10 Oct 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Anti-Vaccine Hysteria Sparks Outbreaks; Holder Quits Child gets vaccinated by a nurse. (Image: Centers for Disease Control PHIL Public health image library)
    9 Sep 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  3. Biden Administration Working Hard on COVID
    2 Feb 2021 … Vaccinations rates are picking up, and now nearly 1 in 5 adults have had their first shot. Continue reading
  4. Mapping Global Disease Outbreaks
    2 Feb 2012 … Use an interactive map from the Council on Foreign Relations to plot vaccine-preventable outbreaks around the world. Continue reading
  5. Corrupted: The COVID-19 Response
    8 Aug 2020 … Corruption is sometimes just an isolated scandal. But the coronavirus pandemic and the government’s response are illustrating just how corrupt the functioning of our government has become — and just how high the stakes are. Unfair advantages that the well-connected Continue reading
  6. A Conversation with Bill Gates: Making a Healthier World for Children and Future Generations Bill Gates
    5 May 2003 … NOW examines health issues around the world and Bill Moyers sits down with Microsoft mogul and public health student Bill Gates. Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: Slice the Money Cannon Into Money for the People
    11 Nov 2020 … Eight months into this crisis, more people are filing for benefits every week than the worst week of the Great Recession. As of last week, 21 million workers are claiming meager unemployment benefits, without any federal enhancement. Continue reading
  8. Trump and McConnell Break Up Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)(center), Sen. John Thune (R-SD)(right) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) speak to the media at the White House on July 19, 2017. The senators met with President Donald Trump to discuss the health care bill. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … The complicated fight in the Senate over the one-time stimulus payment of $2000 illustrates that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), not Trump, now controls the Republican caucus. Continue reading
  9. Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America?
    2 Feb 2021 … Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure. Continue reading
  10. Unsanitized: The Battle of Los Angeles Los Angeles
    1 Jan 2021 … The nation’s biggest county has the biggest COVID outbreak. Plus, a memorial to the dead. Continue reading