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  Pizzigati: The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade

  What could be better than a drug that can stop Covid? A society that doesn’t let some make billions off a drug millions can’t access
• Walker: 4 in 10 Americans Plan to Defy CDC Guidelines on Thanksgiving

  As of Tuesday, more than 12.4 million Americans have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, with close to 260,000 having died from the virus so far
• Collective 20: From 2000 Feet

  The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
• Flowers: The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All

  The majority of people in the United States support a universal healthcare system. The opportunity to win it is now because the recession means our uninsured numbers will soar and the current healthcare system cannot address the COVID-19 crisis
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  Cockburn: America and Britain are big losers on world stage as they fail to control Covid

  “It was clear that none of the great powers were looking to the multilateral system to provide an answer [to the epidemic]. As the death count rose, every country acted as if it was on its own, closing borders, stockpiling medical equipment, and introducing export controls.”
• Streitfeld: American Exceptionalism?

  We’re the only country in the entire industrialized world that…
• Hiltzik: The Colossal Problem of Publicly Funded Vaccines in Private Hands

  As Pfizer and Moderna prepare to roll out their COVID 19 vaccines, the problems associated with publicly funded vaccines in the hands of private companies are already on the horizon, as the drug industry seeks to control global efforts for a cure
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  Yong: Dead Before Christmas

  As U.S. Passes 250K COVID Deaths, Healthcare Workers Brace for Holiday Surge
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  Pitt: Real Economic Recovery Can’t Happen Until COVID Is Under Control, Biden Says

  If COVID has taught us anything at all, it is that workers are the much ballyhooed “economy” our leaders spend so much time talking about
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  Cole: With 250,000 Dead, why is the US Virus Response so Particularly Bad?

  Is it the Trump-Monster or capitalist Plutocracy?
• Gonzalez-Ayala: El Paso at Breaking Point with Hospitals & Mobile Morgues Filling Up

  El Paso County, an area along the U.S.-Mexico border where 80% of residents are Latinx, is facing one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. and now has 10 mobile morgues to hold bodies
• Renwick: Anger After North Dakota Governor Asks COVID-Positive Health Staff to Stay on Job

  “We are willing to break our backs and work as hard as we physically can. But then to ask us to come in as a potential infectious source is just stunning.”
• Moss: Fighting Covid by Empowering Workers

  This winter, worker committees, the first in the nation, will come on line in Los Angeles County
• Ross: “No End in Sight”

  Nine Months into Pandemic, Nurses Are Tired, Demoralized & Still Lack Adequate PPE
• Corbett: Michigan Gov. Moves to Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline to Protect Great Lakes

  "Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of life."
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  Pitt: Mitch McConnell Is Sacrificing the Entire Economy to Impede Biden Administration

  When this COVID spike reaches its apex, the country will almost certainly be forced into another full shutdown. If McConnell and the Senate do not pass a robust aid package, the economic cost will be unimaginable
• Derysh: To truly recover, US needs 400% more coronavirus relief than McConnell is offering

  GOP-led delays “will increase the amount of money necessary” to save workers
• Hamblin: How Trump Sold Failure to 70 Million People

  The president convinced many voters that his response to the pandemic was not a disaster. The psychology of medical fraud is simple, timeless, and tragic
• Gupta: Our Vaccine Infrastructure Needs a Radical Overhaul

  Decades-long funding cuts for pandemic preparedness hamper coordinated distribution and equitable access. We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone
• Chen: The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave

  Health care workers don’t need patronizing praise. They need resources, federal support, and for us to stay healthy and out of their hospitals. In many cases, none of that is happening