As Pandemic Rips Through Indian Country, Indigenous Communities Work to Save Elders & Languages
Democracy Now! looks at the fight to save tribal elders and Native language speakers as the pandemic rips through Indian Country, with Indigenous communities facing woefully inadequate healthcare, lack of governmental support, and the living…
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Is President Joe Biden Going Far Enough In Battling The Pandemic?
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam about President Biden's response to the pandemic. Last year when describing the worst-case scenarios of the coronavirus pandemic, government scientists warned we could see deaths numbering between…
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Would You Patent the Sun? Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVD Vaccine
The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is set to top 400,000 before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, but the rollout of coronavirus vaccines has been slow, with many describing a…
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U.S. Needs to Quickly Ramp Up Vaccinations as COVID Kills Over 4,000 in Single Day
As the United States breaks all records for coronavirus cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns another 92,000 could die in the next three weeks as complaints grow over the slow distribution of…
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COVID Scientist Rebekah Jones Condemns Armed Police Raid on Her Home & Florida’s Pandemic Response
As Florida sets new records for daily coronavirus cases, DN speaks with a whistleblower who was fired in May from the Florida Department of Health after she refused to censor information about the state’s COVID-19…
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Survival of the Fittest? Florida Seniors Forced to Camp Overnight in Cars, Hoping for Vaccine
As the United States reports record COVID-19 deaths, Florida broke the record for the highest single-day increase in new cases Thursday. Across the state, long lines to get vaccinations against COVID-19 left senior citizens camping…
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Israeli Vaccine Drive Excludes Millions of Palestinians in Occupied Territories
Israel has administered COVID-19 vaccines faster than any country in the world, with more than 14% of Israelis receiving vaccines so far. Despite the fast rollout, human rights groups are expressing alarm over Israel's decision…
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New Doc Examines Trump’s Failures On The Pandemic
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger, and Ophelia Harutyunyan about Trump's failure to handle a pandemic. If you are a believer in the cult of President Donald Trump, you may be under…
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Toward A New Understanding Of Disease And Infections
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Sonai Shah about understanding infections and disease. Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing across the US with global data showing that poorer nations—and the US—are driving infections up internationally. Misinformation about the…
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71% Now Want Coronavirus Vaccine
A new high of 71% of Americans now want to get the coronavirus vaccine, a continued steady increase as more is learned about the vaccine, and as more people are vaccinated. -- The David Pakman…
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“Worse Than Being in Iraq”: Veteran & ER Doctor Says Pandemic Is Pushing Hospitals to Breaking Point
As the U.S. averages more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, DN speaks with Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency physician who has been treating patients since the beginning of the U.S. outbreak, first in…
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Black Critical Care Dr. Taison Bell of UVA on Fighting COVID, Racism & Securing Fair Vaccine Access
More than 40 countries have temporarily suspended some or all travel from the United Kingdom after British health officials announced a highly infectious variant of the novel coronavirus has been spreading in the country. South…
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The Roots Of Vaccine Skepticism In Black Communities
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Alexandre White about Black communities' skepticism in a COVID vaccine. A new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that a whopping 35% of African Americans would probably or…
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2020: A Year Unlike Any Other In Recent Memory
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Arun Gupta about the year 2020. Ah 2020, what a year it has been. Who could have predicted at the start of the year when the U.S. Senate was acquitting…
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“No Reason to Let Up” on Masks as U.S. COVID-19 Deaths & Infections Skyrocket During Vaccine Rollout
As the “very exciting” rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution gets underway in the United States, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, says the country is still experiencing “astronomical”…
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As COVID Surges Behind Bars in California, Why Is San Quentin Transferring Hundreds of Prisoners?
Prisons across the U.S. are facing their greatest swell in COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Nearly a quarter-million incarcerated people in the U.S. have been infected with COVID-19, according to the Marshall…
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Trump Trying to Wreck Social Security on His Way Out
Donald Trump has launched a last-minute attack on Social Security, trying to ram through a load of new rules. Republicans hate social security and are attempting to damage it as much as possible before they…
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New Analysis Confirms Medicare For All Saves Money
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Matt Bruenig about how Medicare for all saves money. A little-noticed financial analysis of a Single-Payer system by the Congressional Budget Office concluded that transitioning to a government run system…
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Coronavirus Vaccination Has Started in the US
Coronavirus vaccinations start today with the first approved vaccine from Pfizer and Biontech. David Pakman outlines what the next few months might look like in terms of vaccinated the population. -- The David Pakman Show…
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Vaccine Equity: Why Communities of Color & Incarcerated People Should Get Early Access to Shots
As the first shipments of a federally approved COVID-19 vaccine arrive across the United States, healthcare workers and residents of nursing homes will receive the first shipments, and epidemiologist Camara Phyllis Jones says communities of…
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