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“…EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency health care. But it provides no funding mechanism to do it.”

Conservatives Backed the Ideas Behind Obamacare, So How Did They Come to Hate It?

Salon | Christopher Robertson and Wendy Netter Epstein | November 27, 2020

“Health care workers and first responders will get the first vaccines. But what if there’s not enough for all of them at the beginning?”

Massive Coronavirus Vaccine Effort Faces Enormous Challenges in California

East Bay Times | Teri Sforza | November 29, 2020

“Moderna and the Pfizer/BioNTech collaboration say their vaccines worked to about the same degree in all different groups, ethnicities, and genders.”

‘Absolutely Remarkable’: No One Who Got Moderna’s Vaccine in Trial Developed Severe COVID-19

Science Magazine | Jon Cohen | November 30, 2020

“At least 20% of respondents said they’d want to get the vaccine right away while another 20% were unsure about getting it at all and 14% did not want to get it. Meanwhile 46% of the respondents said they’d rather wait for others to get vaccinated first before doing it themselves.”

UPDATED Coronavirus Tracker: California Requires Hospitals to Test Staff, Patients for COVID-19

Fierce Healthcare | Healthcare Staff | November 30, 2020

“The leadership and the corporatist majority in the party reject socialist projects not because they are unpopular, but … because those radical transformative plans do not align with interests they represent.”

The Center Cannot Hold: Biden and the Challenge for Progressives

CounterPunch | Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi | November 30, 2020

“Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti estimated that more than 4,000 residents could die in the next five weeks if the virus’s spread isn’t slowed.”

California Hospitalizations from COVID-19 Surging; ICUs May Be Overwhelmed in Weeks

NPR | Reese Oxner | November 30, 2020

“Missteps will come with real consequences, in a pandemic that has already cost 270,000 lives in the United States alone.”

The COVID-19 Vaccines Are a Marvel of Science. Here’s How We Can Make the Best Use of Them

Stat | Helen Branswell | December 2, 2020

“The scramble comes as millions of Americans face losing support programs at the end of the month and cases and hospitalizations are surging across the country.”

Momentum for Coronavirus Relief Bill Builds, But Time Short as Parties Work on Deal

National Public Radio | Deirdre Walsh and Claudia Grisales | December 4, 2020

 

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