0:08 – COVID relief package in Congress down to the wire
Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
0:34 – The psychology of COVID risk
Melissa Auerbach is associate professor of instruction in psychology at Temple University, where she specializes in health risk behaviors, health promoting behaviors, self-control and stress.
1:08 – KPFA News: The COVID-19 vaccine has officially arrived in the Bay Area, with the very first vaccinations administered this morning in San Francisco. KPFA’s Sam Anderson reports.
1:15 – Pfizer unblinds vaccine trial recipients
Dr. David Tom Cooke (@DavidCookeMD) is head of thoracic surgery at UC Davis Health, and was part of the clinical trial of the Pfizer covid vaccine.
1:34 – Report: prisons contributed to 500,000 COVID cases in summer 2020
Gregory Hooks is a professor of sociology at McMaster University in Ontario, and co-authored the new report “Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and community spread.”
Wanda Bertram is the Communications Strategist at the Prison Policy Initiative.
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