Tag: Covid-19 vaccine
Pfizer’s record-shattering $100 billion in revenue denounced as ‘sickening’
"A people-funded vaccine should be cheap and freely available."
Supreme Court blocks Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine rule for businesses
The Supreme Court ruled that under the law that created OSHA it "empowers the Secretary to set workplace safety standards, not broad public health measures."
My year and welcome to it
Here are four (million) of my own takeaways from 2021, a classic hell-on-Earth year that, if worse weren’t potentially on the horizon, could perhaps be quickly forgotten.
2.5 million nurses demand UN probe into ‘COVID-19 criminals’ blocking patent...
"Continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver is resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world."
Moderna slammed for ‘cheating US taxpayers’ in COVID-19 vaccine patent dispute
Along with "being scientifically dishonest," and "trying to cheat NIH scientists," the company "is leaving people to die."
AOC: US must mass produce COVID-19 vaccine for world, or pandemic...
She calls on the United States to use tools like the Defense Production Act to mobilize mass production of vaccines to export for free around the world.
Delta variant linked to COVID surges amid slow US vaccination rates...
“Our expectation should be, by July, this will be the dominant variant.”
‘We need a people’s vaccine, not a profit vaccine’: Sanders urges...
“Ending this pandemic requires collaboration, solidarity, and empathy. It requires a very different mindset—a mindset that puts people over profits at every turn.”
Rich nations are getting vaccines, poor countries not: Which is a...
“Between them, G7 nations have secured enough vaccines for every one of their citizens to be vaccinated three times over, while many poor countries are yet to receive a single dose."
Reports of racial disparities in COVID vaccines distort science
Out of context numbers and percentages only create public misunderstanding of the scientific results.
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado River water. Four...
If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.
A mulish fool, a farce-spoiled pool and more swill from staggering misrule
No matter the mayhem, great or small,/ Dredge up “vandals did it” protocol.
Apathy in the American Medical Association
It is well past time that they break their silence.