While “less than 7% of people in low-income countries are fully vaccinated,” Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said the U.S. must “invest more in global vaccination efforts immediately.” A full two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, a grim milestone was reached Monday as the global death toll surpassed 6 million people—a figure much higher, say many experts, than […]
“Pharma execs and shareholders are making a killing from a crisis they helped to create,” said one justice campaigner. In the first week that the Omicron variant sparked global fears of a new wave of infections, a small handful of investors and executives with Pfizer and Moderna—currently the world’s preeminent makers of Covid-19 vaccines—saw over $10 […]
“Millions of Americans depend on the mail every day,” said Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. “One political appointee does not get to decide the fate of the Postal Service.” Twenty state Attorneys General on Friday filed a joint complaint in an effort to block changes to the U.S. Postal Service enacted last week by Postmaster […]
Anger and warnings of looming “calamity” for tens of millions as federal assistance programs for jobless Americans come to an end. Progressives and economic experts fumed Monday as boosted unemployment aid—which has kept millions of workers, their families, and the overall economy afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic—came to an unceremonious end despite the persistence of the virus […]