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Tying health care to employment has ALWAYS been unacceptable, but this pandemic has highlighted that fact as a mass unemployment crisis quickly became a mass uninsured crisis.

We need Medicare for All, and we need it now.

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Now it's our turn to build up and to back up our health care workers battling the coronavirus.

Our turn to restore faith and confidence in our leaders to deliver solutions that unite and heal us.

And we will build a nation where health care is a right—not a privilege.

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Check hospital capacities in your area here ⬇️⬇️

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COVID-19 hospitalizations are skyrocketing in the U.S.

Is your local hospital overwhelmed? Search NPR's new tool to see how health care facilities in your area are faring.
https://trib.al/aFKYt98

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Christopher Krebs, who led election security efforts at DHS, stands by his statement that the 2020 election was "the most secure in American History." He's suing Trump's campaign and others, saying their statements falsely painted him as a traitor. https://trib.al/q1N9uYv

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Former FDA Commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb confirms on CNBC that the Trump admin "didn't take up the additional 100 million [vaccine doses] option agreement" from Pfizer.

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Biden announces a new, three-part COVID initiative for the first 100 days of his presidency, designed in consultation with Dr. Fauci:
1. Everyone wears a mask
2. Get 100M vaccine shots into arms of Americans
3. Reopen the majority of schools in first 100 days if Congress acts.

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