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100+ Countries Push to Loosen WTO Rules on Vaccine Patents. Why Is the U.S. Still Blocking the Way?
As the pandemic’s death toll nears 2.5 million, stringent rules around intellectual property rights could be preventing much of the world from obtaining COVID-19 vaccines. Over 45 million people in the United States have received…
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Bernie Sanders on the Crises Facing Our Country
Americans need help, higher wages, COVID relief. Bernie Sanders talks with Thom Hartmann about how to address the crises facing this country. He talks about redefining "bipartisan," when a majority of American people, Republicans and…
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Everyday Mini Chernobyl Nuclear Disasters
Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Nevada's proposed Nuclear waste site, all are just the very beginning of a very bad nuclear problem. Kevin Kamps is the nuclear waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Kamps joins Thom Hartmann…
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US COVID Death Toll Hits 500,000 as Rich Nations Hoard Vaccines, Leaving Poorer Nations Without Any
The United States has passed 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, by far the highest toll in the world. The morbid milestone comes as new COVID-19 cases continue to fall across the country amid an accelerating vaccine rollout,…
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Ro Khanna on How Medicare For All Saves Lives & Money
Medicare For All is not expensive. The way America's healthcare is run today is costing billions more than it should. Could a Medicare For All tax save American lives and money? Ro Khanna represents the…
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How to Wear a Mask & When to Wear Two to Reduce COVID Transmission & Increase Vaccine Effectiveness
While COVID-19 infection rates and hospitalizations appear to be waning, the United States has a long way to go before people can safely return to everyday life without masks. Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease…
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COVID Cases Down 64%, 2.2+ Million Vaccines in One Day
Coronavirus cases are now down 64% from their peak on January 11th, deaths have started to come down, and the US vaccinated a record 2.2 million people on each of two consecutive days in the…
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“Decades of Medical Racism” Led to Unequal COVID Impact on Black & Latinx People
Historians Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain dedicate their new book, Four Hundred Souls, to the “Black lives lost to COVID-19.” They put the content of their book in the context of the disparate impact…
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COVID Cases Down 56%, Vaccines Hit 2 Million Per Day
COVID-19 cases are down 56% from their average peak on January 11th, deaths start coming down, and the US does 2 million vaccinations per day each day this past weekend. David Pakman takes a look…
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Why Latinos Are So Hard Hit By The Pandemic
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Gustavo Arellano about why Latinos are so hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a time when the so-called “Latino paradox” as referred to in health care circles was an…
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Africa CDC Head Says Lack of Vaccines for the Continent Will Imperil World
Countries across the African continent are facing a second COVID-19 outbreak, linked to a variant first found in South Africa that has been detected in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Comoros and Zambia and more than 20…
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GOP Watched COVID Kill & Americans Are Angry
After losing their aunt to COVID-19, Michelle righteously lashes out at the system that values people less than profit. How many more Americans will feel like Michelle before the GOP takes COVID-19 seriously. Donald Trump…
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Neuroscience of the Creative Geek w/ Richard Silberstein
Are people with autism and ADHD more Creative? Professor Richard Silverstein has been looking at the link between creativity and ADHD and has come up with some interesting discovery. Richard Silberstein, author of the…
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Russia's Sputnik V Is Found to Be 91.6% Effective, Providing Boost for Global Vaccination Effort
Russia has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, recording about 73,000 deaths and over 3.8 million infections over the past year. Meanwhile, there is widespread skepticism over the domestically developed Sputnik…
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Latinx Covid Deaths Soar 1,000% in Los Angeles as Communities of Color Lag Behind in Vaccine Rollout
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Black and Latinx people in the United States have died at higher rates, and new data shows that they are getting vaccinated at much lower rates than white people. The Centers…
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The Real Reason Why The Vaccine Rollout Is So Slow
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Dean Baker about the vaccie rollout. The United States has currently vaccinated just over 25 million people, out of 325 million, against the COVID-19 virus. Vaccines, which were sold as…
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Richard Wolff: Cuba's COVID Response Beats US Response
Cuba has extremely lower COVID rates than the United States. What about the economic realities of Vietnam gave them an advantage in fighting the coronavirus? Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann to discuss why some…
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Share the Technology: Experts Say We Must End Big Pharma Monopoly on COVID Vaccine Supply & Price
As rich countries race to roll out their vaccination programs, leaders in the Global South and global health advocates are increasingly decrying vaccine hoarding that has pushed poorer countries to the back of the line…
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Dr. Peter Hotez: “Globalized Anti-Science Movement” Threatens Pandemic Response & Public Health
The Biden administration has vowed to increase the rate of vaccinations as COVID-19 continues to spread uncontrollably across the entire U.S., with 90,000 people predicted to die in the next four weeks. President Biden announced…
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