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Share the Intellectual Property on COVID-19
Intellectual Property must serve the global good, rather than humanity serving the interests of a few private companies. And in the case of COVID-19, the global good is not in doubt: rapid worldwide immunization, in order to save lives, prevent the emergence of new variants, and end the pandemic.
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Opinion: White House's New Covid-19 Strategy is Madness
Sachs argues that the Trump Administration is receptive to pursuing a “herd immunity”. A ‘controversial approach to Covid-19 that threatens to bring nothing less than mass suffering.’ Sachs is a regular contributor to CNN.com
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How Inequality Fuels COVID-19 Deaths
High inequality undermines social cohesion, erodes public trust, and deepens political polarization, all of which negatively affect governments’ ability and readiness to respond to crises. This explains why the United States, Brazil, and Mexico account for nearly half of the world's reported deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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A Hopeful Vision of Service
Zogby argues that “while the noisy backlash to the pandemic is dominating the news and can be depressing, it is important to lift up all of these silent heroes whose efforts, though unconnected and not the subject of headlines, cry out to be recognised. What is needed is to lift them up, knit them together, and see them as a collective response to the crisis which we are facing.”
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Former NAACP President Ben Jealous Raises $1M Fund to Support Out-of-Work Baltimoreans
Morgan Eichensehr of the Baltimore Business Journal interviews Jealous about his newly launched relief fund aimed at supporting Baltimore-area workers that are struggling or have lost their jobs amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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The One Vital Message of Nearing 100,000 US Deaths
Six months into the epidemic and around 100,000 deaths later we still do not have systematic contact tracing across the country. Neither the President nor Congress has focused on the topic even though it is the key to keeping Americans alive and restoring the economy. Sachs is a regular contributor to CNN.com
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Nina Turner: Workers' Movement Grows as Sanitation, McDonald's Workers Strike
On Rising with Krystal & Saagar, Senator Turner draws parallels between New Orleans sanitation workers' strike, and the Memphis sanitation strike led by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
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