Massachusetts Public Health Council member pledges to take COVID vaccine to show it’s safe
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
A doctor in the Massachusetts Public Health Council suggested the body join a growing number of top doctors and elected officials in the state in taking the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them not only as a safety measure, but as an act of trust in the product developed in hopes of ending the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Michael Kneeland, who works at University of Massachusetts Medical School, said he’s often asked by friends outside of the medical field about whether he or his family would get the vaccine. He suggested the PHC members promote the vaccine by getting inoculated together.
December 11, 2020
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Voice More than a century ago, Eduard Bernstein claimed that it was time for socialists to abandon their revolutionary goal of overthrowing capitalism. He argued that the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) should adopt a reformist approach that strictly relied on legal channels, such as elections in which socialism could slowly be voted into power. To support his position, Bernstein cited the authority of Friedrich Engels, who had allegedly reached similar conclusions in one of his last works. Citing Engels’s introduction to Marx’s
Class Struggles in France, Bernstein argued, “Engels is so thoroughly convinced that tactics geared to a catastrophe have had their day that he considers a revision to abandon them to be due even in the Latin countries where tradition is much more favourable to them than in Germany.”
Stateâs ambitious vaccine campaign hinges on more companies winning FDA approval
Vaccinating 5 million residents depends on factors beyond Massachusettsâ control
By Robert Weisman and Deanna Pan Globe Staff,Updated December 10, 2020, 6:56 p.m.
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Registered nurse Winter Drury cared for a patient in the COVID intensive care unit at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
The success of Governor Charlie Bakerâs plan for the largest public vaccination in Massachusetts history hinges on critical factors outside the stateâs control, including approval of more COVID-19 vaccines in addition to the two developed by Pfizer and Moderna, health officials said Thursday.