Johns Hopkins University, known as one of the world’s leading public health institutions, and the most frequently cited COVID-19 data source in the daily news, insists on its undergraduate students and many graduate students returning to in-person classes. Focusing on...
False Choices The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis that has devastated to one degree or another almost everybody in the United States and around the world. All of the economic fallout from the shutdowns, from massive unemployment to shuttered small...
In France today, many people are wondering about what is known as the Sanofi “fiasco.” This large pharmaceutical group (7th biggest in the world) and a leader in vaccine production, has not been able to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, has initiated a plan to...
For nearly the past year everyone has been talking about how awfully this pandemic has been handled by those in power. From the White House all the way down to the local level, we are capable of so much more than what we have seen. Case in point with the rollout of...
There are 2.4 million people in federal, state, and local prisons and jails in the U.S. In December, the COVID death rate was twice as high among prisoners as among the general population, and the rate of positive cases was four times as high. Throughout the pandemic,...
