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Study: COVID-19 Variants Responsible for Nearly Half of the One Million Deaths in the U.S.

https://www.citizen.org/news/study-covid-19-variants-responsible-for-nearly-half-of-the-one-million-deaths-in-the-u-s/

 

Pandemic Profiteering: How Corporations Are Capitalizing on the Crisis.  When the pandemic hit and sent the economy into a tailspin, corporations saw an opportunity — to wring more and more profits from us.

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2022/06/27/pandemic-profiteering-how-corporations-are-capitalizing-on-the-crisis/

 

San Jose church that flouted COVID rules avoids nearly quarter million in court fines: The appeals court decision stands as yet another example of the influence of the conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/16/san-jose-church-that-flouted-covid-rules-avoids-nearly-quarter-million-in-court-fines/

 

COVID-19 STATS FOR August 21, 2022

https://pdamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/COVID-19-STATS-for-August-21-2022.pdf

 

COVID-19 Metrics for United States Congressional Districts

https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/coviduscongress

 

Public policy and health in the Trump era

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext

 

The C.D.C. acknowledged it had botched its Covid response. It is part of a broader set of failures. August 18, 2022

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