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States Must Factor Race In COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization By Maya Manian and Seema Mohapatra Law360 is providing free access to its coronavirus coverage to make sure all members of the legal community have accurate information in this time of uncertainty and change. Use the form below to sign up for any of our weekly newsletters. Signing up for any of our section newsletters will opt you in to the weekly Coronavirus briefing. Sign up for our Access to Justice newsletter You must correct or enter the following before you can sign up: Email (NOTE: Free email domains not supported...

Wasserman is a geriatrician who was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine’s Committee for the Equitable Allocation of the COVID-19 Vaccine. He is a member of California’s Community Vaccine Advisory Committee. He lives in Newbury Park. Political leaders and government officials continue to make positive statements about the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I can only imagine the pressure they face, but that pressure pales in comparison to the toll this virus has taken on the most vulnerable among us. It is time for the truth. The people must be...

Advertisement: Tier three includes the second doses needed to provide complete immunization, tier four contains first doses for those 70 and older and others in the 1B priority group, tier five includes extending vaccinations to the 65+ population and tier six focuses on the state-operated site at UA. Pima County’s limited vaccine supply will be distributed in this order, but the amount of available vaccine falls far behind the need for them, especially in vulnerable communities. Limited vaccine supply undermines county’s efforts to rea...

Is 2021 the next 1848 or 1968, a year of insurrection? It’s still January and we’ve had two seismic stormings of seemingly impregnable ramparts organized by very different sets of disaffected outsiders on social media. After the Capitol and Wall Street, which citadel will be targeted next? Anyone still in possession of their reason was obviously appalled to their very core by the Jan. 6 attack on our democracy. An assault on Wall Street hedge funds that seek to profit from the woes of troubled companies, on the other hand, will naturally elicit a wider range of emotions. Schadenfreude, fo...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced via Twitter on Tuesday that he was mobilizing the National Guard to help with COVID-19 vaccinations across the state. This comes as the CDC announced that NC had one of the worst vaccine rates in the country.