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The Scripps Howard Foundation announced this week that ProPublica’s reporting on mismanagement in the federal response to COVID-19 is a finalist for the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards in the Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting category. Soon after the COVID-19 crisis set in, ProPublica found that the federal government tossed aside its many rules on contracting to give out billions of dollars to just about anyone who said they could supply personal protective equipment. Unsurprisingly, an unprecedented array of opportunists emerged. A story by Patricia Callahan and Sebastian Rotella showed how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services paid tens of millions of dollars to develop low-cost portable ventilators that the contractor never delivered. In addition, the reporters exposed that the White House had struck a new deal to get the ventilators but for four times the original price. ....
The meat-processing industry, as is well known by just about everyone at this point, was one of the hardest hit of any industries in the United States by ....
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The Technology 202: Facebook is cracking down on all vaccine misinformation after years of pressure Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer Facebook says it’s going to remove common misleading claims about vaccines after allowing health misinformation to flourish on its platform for years. The company is going farther than its decision in December to remove claims about the coronavirus vaccines debunked by government health agencies amid public health efforts to boost confidence in the immunizations. Now the company will start prohibiting claims including that vaccines are toxic, cause autism or that it’s safer to get the disease they re intended to prevent. ....
The Senate voted 51-50, after Vice President Kamala Harris broke her first tie, to adopt a budget blueprint for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion virus relief package following nearly 15 hours of wading through amendments from both parties. ....