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  1. Unsanitized: COVID Relief Success Depends on Vaccination Success
    12 Dec 2020 … This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Response After a weekend full of impasses and breakthroughs, today a COVID relief bill will pass, nearly nine months Continue reading
  2. Unsanitized: Biden’s Vaccine Plan v. The COVID Variant
    1 Jan 2021 … The biggest challenge right now is getting shots into arms before the mutation takes over and surges cases. Continue reading
  3. Unsanitized: The Vaccine Distribution Gaps
    12 Dec 2020 … There’s a gap in transparency and a gap in funding. Plus, looking at the holiday travel stats. Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: CA Moves to Limit ‘Personal Belief ‘ Exemptions for Vaccinations Linda Potter, left, receives a shot of H1N1 flu vaccine from a research nurse during the first of several clinical trials of a new vaccine conducted by Emory University, Mon., August 10, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
    2 Feb 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. Dr. Hahn’s Betrayal: The FDA in Crisis FDA lab technician pipette
    9 Sep 2020 … The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for assuring the safety and efficacy of any new medical treatment. But Donald Trump and FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn have destroyed the agency’s credibility. In fact, drug manufacturers are now reassuring the Continue reading
  6. Jonas Salk on Searching for the Next Medical Miracle
    2 Feb 1990 … The doctor who invented the polio vaccine believed that medical solutions are not invented, but rather revealed from nature. Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: Pandemic Recovery in a Plutonomy
    1 Jan 2021 … First Response The economic outcome from the coronavirus crisis hinges on a big if about vaccine distribution. But let’s think positive for a moment and play out the best-case scenario. We passed bridge funding for the unemployed and low-value checks (maybe they’ll Continue reading
  8. Reality Check: COVID, Russia and Biden’s High Approval Rating People participate in a protest against wearing face masks outside the Gallatin County Public Health office on October 2, 2020 in Bozeman, Montana. (Photo by William Campbell/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2021 … The vaccines will come none too soon for people in Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott announced he will end the statewide mask mandate and permit all businesses to reopen without coronavirus restrictions. Continue reading
  9. ‘What We’re Inheriting Is So Much Worse Than We Could Have Imagined’ Biden says he is approaching the coronavirus with a “wartime” strategy, moving the power of the federal government behind the effort to get everyone vaccinated.(Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2021 … "What we're inheriting is so much worse than we could have imagined," said President Biden's coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients in a call with reporters. Another official said: “There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have Continue reading
  10. Dr. Jonas Salk on Using Our Intelligence to Think Like Nature Jonas Salk (AP Photo)
    10 Oct 2014 … In this age of Ebola, it's enlightening and inspiring to hear Salk talk about the lessons he learned in developing the polio vaccine. Continue reading