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Critics of California’s new age-based vaccination scheme say it defies the evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread, and fear largely minority essential workers will fall even further back in the vaccine queue.

Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations. Only a serious reform of American capitalism can address the kind of distress and insecurity that kills.

The data analysis was conducted before a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus had been documented in the U.S.

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The demand is still, more than ever, #DefundThePolice, #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives.

The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad.

It’s urgent not to return to the previous status quo. It’s time for creative thinking and bold action. This is a time for a true pandemic pivot.

“Rent strikers and people at risk of losing their shelter are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.”