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January 29, 2021
Melody Schreiber
Our Vaccine Rollout Has an Inequality Problem
The furor around D.C.’s vaccine prioritization shows how hard it is to get this vaccine to those who need it most.
January 20, 2021
Melody Schreiber
How to Vaccinate a Country Amid Trump’s Wreckage
The vaccine rollout has been plagued by bottlenecks and avoidable confusion. The Biden team says it wants to fix that.
January 8, 2021
Alex Pareene
The $2,000 Checks and Our Failing Vaccine Rollout Have Something in Common
Some Democrats are more afraid of backlash than they are concerned with making government work for people.
January 4, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Bungled Vaccine Rollout Is a Bad Omen
America’s disastrous response to Covid-19 is an unsettling preview of how it might respond to the climate change crisis.
December 16, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
How Pandemics End
The first Covid-19 vaccines have arrived. But when will life as we knew it finally resume?
December 16, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Transcript: The Vaccine Pipeline
December 4, 2020
Melody Schreiber
So You Won’t Get an Early Covid-19 Vaccine. That’s OK.
“Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line” tools encourage people to think individualistically about the pandemic. That’s not how pandemics work.
November 25, 2020
Melody Schreiber
Pharma Executives Are Profiting From Covid Vaccine Press Releases
The timing of the announcements, and their lack of detail, are raising worries about insider trading and unrealistic expectations.
November 9, 2020
Melody Schreiber
There’s a Lot We Don’t Know About the Promising Covid Vaccine
Experts celebrated the news that Pfizer’s vaccine could potentially prevent 90 percent of cases, but the road ahead is still very long and very uncertain.
September 8, 2020
Libby Watson
Trumpian Politics Is the Greatest Threat to a Coronavirus Vaccine
There’s no inoculation for what this election season might do to the vital science of ending the pandemic.
August 7, 2020
Libby Watson
The Deadly Coronavirus Vaccine Gold Rush
America is putting an awful lot of trust in a pharmaceutical industry that hasn’t earned it.
June 3, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Vaccines Don’t Make Money
Why we can't leave pandemic prevention to Big Pharma
May 27, 2020
Matt Ford
The Biggest Threat to a Coronavirus Vaccine Is the American People
The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.
May 13, 2020
Libby Watson
It Will Be Needlessly Hard to Get a Coronavirus Vaccination in the U.S.
A health care system designed to rake profits for an elite few is ill-suited to carrying out a nationwide herd immunity project.
March 18, 2020
Dean Baker
Inoculating the Coronavirus Vaccine Against the Profit Pandemic
Competition among private medical interests is impeding the race for the cure.
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