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With little science to guide them, experts clash on best use of limited supply

Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Finding the best ways to do good. In the past couple of weeks, experts and pundits have debated a big question surrounding the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna: Do we stick to two doses for every person, spaced a couple of weeks apart, as originally planned? Or should we go ahead and give out single doses to more people even when we’re not sure we’ll manage the seco...

Biden says he’ll tell the U.S. to stop holding back doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. The debate about holding back doses, explained. Vox.com 1/8/2021 Kelsey Piper © Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images In Berlin, people line up to get vaccinated against Covid-19. In the past couple of weeks, experts and pundits have debated a big question surrounding the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna: Do we stick to two doses for every person, spaced a cou...

A If there’s a common theme in the errors of the US response to Covid-19, it’s been the astounding amount of squandering. Our leaders squandered time, as well as public trust and people’s economic and emotional resources. And they squandered the chance to do good science — testing drugs and vaccines in a way that serves the public interest rather than the interest of pharmaceutical companies. There’s no question that Covid-19 vaccines and therapies will save many lives. But we’...

The thing thats wrong with the COVID-19 vaccine trials Were not doing the kinds of scientific studies needed to get the most out of this work.  By Faye Flam, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS) December 22, 2020 — 11:22am Text size Copy shortlink: If theres a common theme in the errors of the U.S. response to COVID-19, its been the astounding amount of squandering. Our leaders squandered time, as well as public trust and peoples economic and e...

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Cohen -- they revealed they paid cohen on a contract from january to december of 2017 and total payments of $600,000. at&t says it was cohen who approached them in the transition telling them he would be leaving the trump organization to do consulting for a select few companies who wanted his take on the new president and his administration. the key players, the priorities and how they think. at&t also revealing today they were contacted by the special counsels office in the fall of last year. a...

Little shy and sends out regulations and says we want the private market to work but here is a whole list of drugs you must include. once they say that, every drug for cancer, for example. once you say that to a private insurer you must include it, all negotiating opportunity is gone. >> dana: we are waiting for the president. he is going to join us here in the rose garden any moment. it will be a speech on lowering drug prices. i dont know if this will be in the speech or not but while i have y...

boy in a locker room shower. thats all he was required to do under pennsylvania law. tell the people in charge and let them decide whether to contact police. well, governor tom corbitt told nbc that just wasnt good enough. he says, "by law someone in paternos position should have to call the cops himself." >> should the law be changed? absolutely. i know that members of both party, republican and democrat, have already introduced measures to make that change. >> well, corbett is on the...

jerry sandusky was seen raping a boy in a locker room shower. thats all he was required to do under pennsylvania law. tell the people in charge and let them decide whether to contact police. well, governor tom corbitt told nbc that just wasnt good enough. he says, "by law someone in paternos position should have to call the cops himself." >> should the law be changed? absolutely. i know that members of both party, republican and democrat, have already introduced measures to make that c...