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Covid-19

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House Report Shows Trump 'Deliberately and Repeatedly' Undermined Covid-19 Response

"The Trump administration's nearly year-long crusade against FDA resulted in damaging consequences for the coronavirus response," the new publication states.

Brett Wilkins ·

A woman looks through a box at a food bank.

More Americans Than Ever Rate Themselves as 'Suffering' in New Survey

A growing share of Americans also report high levels of daily stress and worry, according to Gallup.

Julia Conley ·

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Ensuring Safe In-Person Education Remains an Afterthought in US Covid Plan

As schools prepare to open, the BA5 subvariant is once again driving cases upward as political will to act falls ever lower.

Anne N. Sosin ·

A 17-year-old receives a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile clinic during a back to school event offering school supplies, face masks, vaccinations, and other resources for children and their families at the Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA on August 7, 2021. (Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

'Terrible Idea': Biden Preparing to Shift Costs of Covid Treatments, Vaccines to Patients

"We must push back," said one doctor. "Free provision of vaccinations, Paxlovid, and monoclonals has been critically important."

Kenny Stancil ·

Tate Reeves

Despite Housing Crisis, Mississippi May Return Up to Millions in Federal Rent Aid to DC

"For them to suggest people like me aren't working? It's a slap in the face," said one woman affected by the end of the pandemic assistance program. "It's very insulting and degrading."

Brett Wilkins ·

Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

Rich Nations Again Accused of Vaccine Hoarding as UK OKs Moderna Omicron Booster

"While countries like the U.K. buy updated vaccines for their fourth doses, people in low- and middle-income countries are fighting today's variants with yesterday's vaccines."

Brett Wilkins ·

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How We Must Address the Monkeypox Emergency

Science will need to be at the center of every strategy deployed by this response team: testing, tracking cases, keeping up-to-date on monkeypox research, effective messaging, vaccine distribution, and more.

Jacob Carter ·

Demonstrators protest outside Moderna headquarters

Moderna Revenue Shows Pandemic Has Been 'Lucrative Smash-and-Grab' for Big Pharma

"In the Covid-19 pandemic, world leaders have allowed pharmaceutical companies to place extraordinary profits ahead of saving lives," lamented one campaigner

Brett Wilkins ·

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Activists Disrupt Global AIDS Conference to Demand Action on Monkeypox

"We're demanding immediate equitable global sharing of supplies of testing, treatments, and vaccines."

Jessica Corbett ·

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We Are Not 'In This Together': The Biden Adminstration's Covid-19 Policy Is Still Killing Vulnerable People

Our government has abandoned its responsibility to protect its citizens by blaming its failures on the very individuals it was elected to protect.

Maggie Mills ·

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