The United States passed the heartbreaking marker of 500,000 official deaths from COVID-19. The GOP resorts to old playbook and suggest Trump will run in 2024.

The biggest challenge right now is getting shots into arms before the mutation takes over and surges cases.

A lot of positive signs, but states need money to distribute the doses.

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 White House refuses to acknowledge.

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 what amounts to a public process.

That should be part of a relief bill entirely focused on getting the vaccine to people as fast as possible. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 10, 2020.

There’s a gap in transparency and a gap in funding. Plus, looking at the holiday travel stats.

Biden appears to be recovering the structure and stability of our government while also enabling it to reflect our nation more accurately than it ever has before.

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 and wealthy have accumulated over decades produced a system that gives the “have-mores” even more in the middle of a global health crisis.