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Rich countries are now stockpiling vaccines that they have grabbed but are unable to distribute. 2 hours ago Senior citizens wait to receive a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Rajawadi hospital in Mumbai on March 3. | Punit Paranjpe / AFP The Covid-19 pandemic has been unusual in several ways: the disproportionate extent to which people in rich countries (particularly in Europe and North America) have been affected; the sheer scale of the policy response for containment; and the speed and urgency of the global response. The active interest in controlling the pandem...

Yves here. Aside from Bill Gates’ unsavory role in defending the right of Big Pharma to rake in profits at the expense of the public during a massive public health crisis, there is also the wee problem of determining what selling a vaccine at cost would amount to. As a client put it, pointing to a conference room chair, “What does that chair cost? I can make it cost whatever I want to.” Specifically, big companies have considerable latitude as to the costs and overheads they allocate to products and businesses (that’s one reason they regularly have to call in McKinsey, the internal pr...

By Liz Szabo, Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen and Jay Hancock Kaiser Health News/TNS Americans are dying of COVID-19 by the thousands, but efforts to ramp up production of potentially lifesaving vaccines are hitting a brick wall. Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are running their factories full tilt and are under enormous pressure to expand production or collaborate with other drug companies to set up additional assembly lines. That pressure is only growing as new viral variants of the virus threaten to launch the country into a deadlier phase of the pandemic. President Joe Biden h...

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY — A man arrested in connection with three drive-by shootings in a Salt Lake neighborhood Wednesday night now faces federal charges. Jordan Gonzales, 26, was charged Thursday with being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a complaint filed in federal court. A second person arrested in connection with the shootings is a juvenile, according to the complaint. About 9:15 p.m., shots were fired at a house near 1600 West and 500 South, according to police. A second shooting was reported just before 10 p.m. near 900 West and 1600 South. Then just before 11 p.m., a...

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber and Jay Hancock Kasier Health News (TNS) One tray of COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer contains 975 doses — way too many for a rural hospital in Arkansas. But with the logistical gymnastics required to safely get the Pfizer vaccine to rural health care workers, splitting the trays into smaller shipments has its own dangers. Once out of the freezer that keeps it at 94 degrees below zero, the vaccine lasts only five days and must be refrigerated in transit. In Arkansas — where more than 40% of its counties are rural and COVID-19 infections are c...