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COVID-19
COVID Boosters Are Critical, But Using Only Animal Data Is a Needless Gamble
FDA’s reliance on animal-tested data ahead of a planned Fall 2022 booster rollout is nothing short of cutting corners.
Focusing on “Learning Loss” Obscures How Much We’ve Truly Lost in the Pandemic
The pandemic’s deaths have been un-dealt with most profoundly by prioritizing saving the economy rather than lives.
Schools Should Prioritize Mental Health Resources — for Both Students and Staff
COVID has exacerbated long-standing mental health problems for educators and students amid a rush to return to “normal.”
When We Rose to Fight COVID, We Were Deliberately Turned Against Each Other
There was a time when we came together to fight COVID, but that energy threatened the status quo more than the virus.
Federal Jury Finds 2 Men Guilty of Plot to Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Prosecutors said that the men’s plot was meant in part to start a civil war.
COVID Is Still Rampant, But Big Pharma Will Soon Charge for Shots and Treatments
COVID isn’t gone, and it is about to get expensive.
Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
“All of these systems of extraction are always connected,” says Beatrice Adler-Bolton.
COVID Hasn’t Been Defeated, But Effective Public Health Measures Have Been
The demands of the market have been treated as more sacrosanct than the obligation to control and prevent a pandemic.
Black Panther and Former Political Prisoner Albert Woodfox Has Died of COVID
Woodfox spent 43 years in solitary confinement due to a wrongful conviction.
17 States and DC Have Stopped Reporting Active COVID Cases Behind Bars
People inside prisons report that infections are ongoing even though precautions and testing have fallen by the wayside.