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    Unsanitized: Vaccine Development Should Trigger Transformation of Monopoly Patent System
    December 11, 2020
    | David Dayen

    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.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Pay People to Get the Vaccine
    December 10, 2020
    | David Dayen

    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.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Distributing the Vaccine, Here and Abroad
    December 8, 2020
    | David Dayen
    Supply chain issues may be a concern; lack of access to the developing world is far greater of a calamity.
  • Letters From an American
    Fighting COVID Should Not Be A Partisan Issue
    December 8, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Despite the coronavirus crisis, the Trump administration continues to put its energy into trying to overturn the 2020 election.
  • Democracy & Government
    Unsanitized: Key Senate Democrats May Agree to McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Measure
    December 7, 2020
    | David Dayen
    Sens. Warner, Manchin, and Shaheen are conceding to McConnell’s expansive language, sources indicate.
  • Health & Science
    New CDC Data Confirms the Pandemic’s Outsize Impact on People of Color
    December 7, 2020
    | Julia Lurie

    Black, Native, and Latinx people are between three and four times more likely to be hospitalized with the coronavirus than white people.

  • Health & Science
    The Freakout About Giving COVID Vaccines to Prisoners Has Already Begun
    December 7, 2020
    | Madison Pauly

    As the arrival of the first COVID vaccines approaches, a political backlash has been brewing over the idea that inoculating people behind bars should be a priority.

  • Letters From an American
    Biden Delivers a Reality Check
    December 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    For those who cannot see it: we are in one of the most profound crises of American history.

  • Letters From an American
    A Deadly Attack On Our Democracy
    December 3, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The president has largely ceased to govern, nursing his grievances in the White House and emerging only to golf. Mainstream Republicans have largely abdicated responsibility.

  • Democracy & Government
    Coddling Corporations Again
    December 2, 2020
    | Jake Johnson
    Critics Smell 'Economic Sabotage' as McConnell Unveils Covid Plan With $0 for Unemployment Boost, Direct Payments


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