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The Radical Plan for Vaccine Equity

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 19, 2022October 19, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the reliance on Big Pharma in the global North to supply life-saving vaccines to the rest of the world is ineffective and dangerous. In this in-depth feature, Amy Maxmen takes a look at global vaccine inequality, and the effort of a network of countries — led by Afrigen, a […]

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The Vaccine Tore Her Family Apart. Could a Death Bring Them Back Together?

by Seyward Darby November 21, 2021October 19, 2022

“Laurel Haught moved out of her own home to escape her unvaccinated daughter. Now they are facing a funeral, the coming holidays and the divide splitting many American families.”

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Red America’s Compassion Fatigue: A Report From Mobile, Alabama

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“But what, I wondered, about people living in red America who have embraced immunity? In the national battle over vaccination, their voices have largely been drowned out.”

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‘The Mark of the Beast’: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 6, 2021October 19, 2022

“The arguments made by today’s anti-vaxxers often echo those put forth by their nineteenth-century antecedents: claims of inefficacy, allegations of ghastly side effects, appeals to religion.”

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Team of Scientists Behind Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 4, 2021October 19, 2022

How scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.

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Luck, Foresight and Science: How an Unheralded Team Developed a COVID-19 Vaccine in Record Time

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 29, 2021October 19, 2022

Credit for the COVID-19 vaccine “belongs to a series of uncelebrated discoveries dating back at least 15 years – and a constellation of unsung scientists.”

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Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 30, 2020October 19, 2022

“As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.”

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Who Gets a Vaccine?

by Carolyn Wells September 28, 2020October 17, 2022

We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?

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How to Vaccinate a Planet

by Carolyn Wells September 25, 2020October 19, 2022

“By mid-August, preorders of COVID-19 vaccine candidates were reportedly stretching toward 6 billion doses, almost all of them claimed by wealthy nations. None of these vaccines has yet been proven to work.”

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The Rabbit Outbreak

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 2, 2020October 19, 2022

“As RHDV2 is poised to become endemic in the United States, the vaccine, which is the one thing that might stop it, is now caught up in the contradictions of rabbits.” The latest New Yorker feature from Susan Orlean tracks a highly contagious, deadly virus among rabbits.

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