Who takes responsibility for vaccinating detainees? “I don’t know,” said California’s surgeon general. Author: Ana B. Ibarra, CALmatters Published: 8:45 PM PST February 22, 2021 Updated: 8:45 PM PST February 22, 2021
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Who is responsible for vaccinating immigrants in California’s detention centers? Neither state officials nor federal agencies have taken responsibility.
In the midst of this chaos, one county, San Diego, has already taken action and sent doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to a local detention center. But another county, San Bernardino, is awaiting instructions from state health officials on when detainees will become eligible for shots.
Freakonomics Radio is usually pretty interesting (although sometimes they get it really, really wrong. In one episode a guest argued that the reason urban housing prices are so high is that landlords are required to keep their property up to code).
The episode I heard on the radio this weekend was excellent – and has a message for policy makers at every level in this country. The question was one that’s come up quite a few times in the past:
Why are people in the Nordic countries, in this case Denmark, so much happier – by almost any standard – than people in other places?
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Considering what we might have expected from his long and often troubling record in government, Biden’s tone and actions so far should give American progressives some reason for cautious optimism during this very difficult time.