July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 31m
English
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Politics, Protocols, and Patents
THERE IS NO GOOD TIME FOR A PANDEMIC, BUT 2020 COULD have been one of the worst times for a pandemic. In the United States, it was an election year in a deeply divided political climate.
A rapidly developed vaccine became a cultural lightning rod. In a generation, vaccines had gone from a well-accepted public health measure to protect communities to something that represented part of your identity, based on whether you would get the vaccine or not.
An August 2020 poll found that 35 percent of Americans said they would not get a free vaccine—and the reluctance fell along party lines. Fewer than half of Republicans (47 percent) said they would get the vaccine, despite the fact that it was a Republican administration ...