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Millions of Americans Face the Nightmare of Getting COVID-19 While Underinsured
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identify two categories of people who are at increased risk for developing severe, life-threatening illness if they contract COVID-19: older adults and people with underlying medical conditions. As the pandemic…
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Telegraph
COVID-19 Treatments Belong to the People, Not Price-Gouging Pharma Companies
On Monday, Gilead Science announced the cost of remdesivir, the first approved treatment for COVID-19. The drug doesn’t improve a patient’s chances of surviving — at best, it speeds up recovery and lowers the need for hospitalization from fifteen to eleven…
telegra.ph/When-Harlem-Renaissance-Novelist-Claude-McKay-Decamped-for-the-Port-of-Marseille-07-02 | source
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When Harlem Renaissance Novelist Claude McKay Decamped for the Port of Marseille
A review of Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay, Penguin Classics, 2020. In the opening passages of Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens describes how “Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks…