How Does the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Compare to Other Coronavirus Vaccines? 4 Questions Answered
Why the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should be seen as a contender.
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More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000 Increase in Nursing Home Deaths, 160,000 Life Years Lost Due to Cuts in Care
Private equity greed knows no bounds: their nursing home acquisitions generated a “serious” rise in deaths and fall in other measures of care
Read more...Scandal-Splattered UK Outsourcing Giant, Serco, Sets Sights on the Ultimate Gravy Train: U.S. Defense Contracting
The company has been repeatedly caught falsifying records, at times on a gargantuan scale. Now it is seeking opportunities in an industry where money routinely disappears in the trillions. What could possibly go wrong?
Read more...Plastics Watch: Annie’s Homegrown Vows to Eliminate Ortho-Phthalates from Its Mac and Cheese
Annie’s Homegrown ventures where FDA has feared to tread and vowed to eliminate phthalates from its macaroni and cheese.
Read more...Feds OK’d Export of Millions of N95 Masks as U.S. Workers Cried for More
Despite a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear.
Read more...CDC School Reopening Guidance Suppresses Aerosols Based on Thin Evidence and Driven by Budgetary Concerns
Third strike for the CDC?
Read more...How to Make COVID Vaccines More Effective: Give People Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
Supplementing vitamin and mineral levels of the elderly before they get vaccinated could boost the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
Read more...‘Beyond Outrageous’: Big Pharma Using Loophole to Get Taxpayers to Fund Billions in Fines for Fueling Opioid Crisis
Big Pharma firms may try and take a tax deduction for some of the $26 billion opioid settlement, thus reducing its payout.
Read more...The Chip Shortage: Brought to You By American Neoliberalism
While the chip shortage will sort itself out in the next six months, the US can’t remedy its dependence on foreigners for critical supplies.
Read more...As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
Biden still wants to ramp up contact tracing. But will it really do much good in the US?
Read more...Intellectual Property Cause of Covid Death, Genocide
Refusal to temporarily suspend several WTO intellectual property provisions to accelerate broad progress against the pandemic is genocide.
Read more...Goldman Is Evil But McKinsey Is Worse
Why the McKinsey veneer is looking tattier and tattier with every passing day, and why that’s not likely to change.
Read more...Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID
The pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations.
Read more...Covid Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions
Rich countries are subverting a program to assure that poor nations can afford Covid vaccines. Is a WTO mechanism a way out?
Read more...Long-Haul Covid Cases Cast New Light on Chronic Fatigue Sufferers
Getting a better understanding of long Covid, including its worrisome frequency.
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