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    As the Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare to take to the debate stage tonight, we turn to a central issue of the campaign: Medicare for All. In a new study, Yale scholars have found that Medicare for All will save Americans more than $450 billion and prevent 68,000 deaths every year. The study in The Lancet — one of the oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals — found that…

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    The state of New York has declared a state of emergency over an outbreak of poliovirus, which has been detected in wastewater in four counties since April, as well as here in New York City. Vaccination rates among children in the affected communities run as low as 58%; public officials say their goal is to vaccinate over 90% of New Yorkers. The CDC recommends children receive four doses of polio…

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    As coronavirus cases increase across much of the United States, the Trump administration has reportedly adopted a policy of deliberately letting the virus infect much of the U.S. population in order to attain “herd immunity” — despite warnings from the World Health Organization against such an approach. We host a debate on the contentious issue of herd immunity and how best to confront the virus…

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    • Um, @AbraarKaran already debated Martin Kulldorff! Dr K looks a bit sad throughout this debate, & this was before he did a panel with Steve Kirsch & before he became science director of the Brownstone Institute. These days there’d be even more to debate 🙃 https://t.co/PRBwgmxsaN https://t.co/a5HqSFFwrh

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    As COVID cases skyrocket, we speak to Dr. Peter Hotez at Texas Children’s Hospital about the Omicron surge, as well as his groundbreaking work developing an affordable patent-free coronavirus vaccine. Last week the Indian government gave emergency approval to the new low-cost, patent-free vaccine called Corbevax, which Hotez co-created. He says it could reach billions of people across the globe…

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    • “A Vaccine for the World”: U.S. Scientists Develop Low-Cost Shot to Inoculate Global South https://t.co/ub645Q9BD9 via @democracynow

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    With the emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, the United States is now averaging over 130,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, and health officials warn the U.S. could see a million new cases a day by February. We speak with health expert Dr. Carlos del Rio, who says that vaccination complemented by booster shots is the best defense against severe illness. “Everybody’s going to get…

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    U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday condemned travel bans imposed by dozens of countries on Southern African nations that first detected the Omicron variant, blasting the restrictions as “travel apartheid.” Gutteres noted the virus had already appeared in Europe before it was first detected in Africa, and is now in dozens of countries around the world.  Secretary-General António…

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