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A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response

Bill of Health

The promise of herd immunity, where we would protect each other by protecting ourselves through vaccination, was on the distant horizon. A collective policy response complemented this rhetorical and ideological framing. The social allocation of COVID-19’s costs should therefore be seen as a dramatic upward wealth redistribution.

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