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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)

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Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. The entire pandemic response hinged on vaccination as a silver bullet. By Justin Feldman.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)

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On December 1, 2021, the CDC issued a press release announcing that it had identified a case of the Omicron variant in the U.S. The rate of inflation was nearly 7% in 2021, which is unprecedented in recent economic history. ” which was originally published on January 5, 2022 on Medium. By Justin Feldman. for the first time.

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Trust Plummets Around the World: The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer in #CES2021 and Microsoft Context

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where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn. Edelman then connects the dots between information hygiene and vaccine hesitancy in this chart. The info hygiene-vaccine gap in the U.S.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

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You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

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The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. Looking forward, the test of the sustainability of upwardly-mobile pharma reputation in 2021 and 2022 will be drug pricing.

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

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2: Moderna, funded with nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, sets the highest prevailing market price for the product. The controversy here is that this was the highest price set although the company received 100% of the development costs for the vaccine covered by the U.S. government. .”

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Please Keep Your Masks On

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And, though vaccines are effective in reducing the likelihood of severe outcomes and death, data shows that this protection is not perfect — for example, in the first week of December 2021, nearly a quarter of COVID-19 deaths occurred in “fully” vaccinated people ( 682 of 2,912 deaths ). .

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