The Choice: Vaccine Equity or a Prolonged Pandemic

The Novel Coronavirus Does Not Respect Borders

Hank Kalet Jan 28

Vaccination in Ethiopia. Credit: World Health Organization
The news here is good. Mostly. A surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant appears to be waning, which should provide relief to overburdened emergency rooms and hospitals. Vaccinations proceed apace, despite pockets of anti-vax activism on the fringe.

“Things are looking good,” Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Biden administration’s top adviser on the pandemic, said on Sunday. “We don’t want to get overconfident, but they look like they’re going in the right direction right now.”

Right now. Maybe. Overconfidence is an American trait. The science may point in a different directions. The same Times article that quotes Fauci’s statement of relief, raised questions about whether Covid-19 can be eradicated, or whether it might become an endemic, circulating but less severe virus. Like the flu.

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Grassroots: A Hate that Runs Deep

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Hank Kalet Jan 19

An antisemitic cartoon from 1896. Watson Heston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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A Hate that Runs Deep

A gunman. A synagogue on a Sabbath morning. A hostage crisis that, thankfully, ended without injury to the hostages. This is the United States in early 2022, a nation gripped by a wave of hate normalized by a rightwing growing in power and embedded in some of the nation’s most influential institutions…

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