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New data suggests Pfizer vaccine is 85% effective in preventing spread, plus more on the latest COVID research with Dr Swartzberg; Plus: KPFA Fund Drive Special: A Black Women’s History of the United States

0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: the legacy of Rush Limbaugh, status of COVID relief, and more

Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA.

0:34 – John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, and joins us every Monday to talk about the latest COVID research. 

1:08 – Fund Drive Special: A Black Women’s History of the US

Daina Ramey Berry (@DainaRameyBerry) is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin.

Kali Nicole Gross (@KaliGrossPhD) is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University. They’ve just co-authored A Black Women’s History of the United States.

Yours for a pledge of $100 to KPFA, includes the KPFA event audio and the book.