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Celebrities Urge Hollywood to End Support for Big Pharma’s Vaccine Monopoly
Nearly 300 celebrities and creative professionals signed an open letter endorsing a patent waiver for COVID vaccines.
Vaccine Mandates Are Working. Democrats Should Act Boldly on Other Issues Too.
Conservatives are calling Biden’s federal vaccine mandate authoritarian and dictatorial. What else is new?
My Daughter Was Exposed to COVID. Thank Goodness She Was Vaccinated.
Everyone deserves to know what it’s like to be able to worry just a little bit less because they are vaccinated.
Mark Meadows Reveals Trump Tested Positive for COVID Ahead of First Debate
After Trump tested negative for COVID in a second test done shortly after the positive one, he continued campaigning.
Republicans Are Threatening to Shut Down Government Over Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
It's a last-ditch attempt by the GOP to deny funding for enforcement of Biden's vaccine mandate for large businesses.
Moderna Refuses to Share Vaccine Recipe With Africa as Omicron Rises
Moderna projects $18 billion in sales as a handful of countries block an international patent waiver for vaccines.
Medical Experts Decry Omicron Travel Bans That Unfairly Target African Countries
Travel bans impose punishments on countries that properly alert the world to new coronavirus variants, experts say.
Capitalism Must Not Dictate Our Response to Omicron Variant
In the face of the virus's new iteration, we must prioritize saving lives.
2.5 Million Nurses Demand UN Probe Into Rich Countries Blocking Patent Waivers
The small group of rich nations is “endangering millions of lives around the world,” the nurses declared in a petition.
Unnecessary and Complicated Transfers Are Spreading COVID in Federal Prisons
Incarcerated people are routinely subject to air, bus and van transport that heightens their risk of contracting COVID.