COVID-19 Vaccine Giveaways Are Getting Out of Control
In theory, random extra-dose lotteries give anyone a chance at early vaccination. In practice, though, they privilege those who have the time to wait all...
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Listen: How Badly Is Vaccination Going?
Okay, normal-ish this summer. Do we have any understanding of what happens between now and normal-ish, or is it really hard to say? Are there...
America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The resulting database is a patchwork, built from the individual components that each state’s data systems capture and from the numbers that local political leaders...
FDA Expected to Authorize Use of First COVID-19 Vaccine
FDA officials present offered similar support. “FDA has been conducting ongoing review of manufacturing quality, consistency, and control,” said the agency’s deputy director in the...
Nursing-Home COVID-19 Deaths Jumped 27 Percent Last Week
A new COVID-19 spike in America’s long-term-care facilities emerged in the West and Northeast last week, with both regions reporting their highest numbers of new...
Why You Can Dine Indoors but Can’t Have Thanksgiving
But that’s not the country Americans live in. Responding to this national disaster has been left to governors, mayors, and city councils, basically since day...
America’s Best-Prepared Hospital Is Nearly Overwhelmed
To hear such talk from someone at UNMC, the best-prepared of America’s hospitals, should shake the entire nation. In mid-March, when just 18 Nebraskans had...
The Lame-Duck Vaccine
A Biden administration is also a return to the very basics of scientific communication: not openly fighting with agencies, letting scientists rather than politicians speak,...
How Trump Sold Failure to 70 Million People
The phenomenon transcends ideological bounds. We all fuse our identities in some ways. If you are a diehard Red Sox fan, you are almost certainly...
Listen: Is COVID-19 a Preexisting Condition?
Hamblin: And the initial challenge to the ACA in the Supreme Court was over the mandate being unconstitutional? Katherine Wells: Yeah, I thought we already...