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Artiles worked with GOP firm Data Targeting on Senate races


Artiles worked with GOP firm Data Targeting on Senate races
The firm agreed to pay Artiles, a former legislator, $90,000 to work on “state legislative campaign assignments.”
 
 
Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
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Long before Frank Artiles, a Miami legislator turned lobbyist, became the focus of a public corruption investigation, he got a call from one of Florida’s most influential Republican consultants on a Monday afternoon in May 2020.
The conversation lasted five minutes.
Three weeks later, on June 9, they jumped on the phone two more times. By the end of the day, Pat Bainter, who runs the prominent GOP research firm Data Targeting Inc., and Artiles, who owns Miami firm Atlas Consultants, had a deal. ....

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Monkeys Used in Animal Testing Helped Develop COVID Vaccine


This week, U.S. healthcare workers began receiving the first doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine and we almost certainly have monkeys to thank for that.
Monkeys and other nonhuman test subjects have been an extremely valuable research component in helping the medical community better understand COVID, which has so far killed 290,000 people in the U.S. and more than 19,000 in Florida. In two peer-reviewed studies published this spring in
Science magazine, researchers who infected groups of rhesus macaque monkeys with the coronavirus found that primates were capable of developing protective immunity against the disease. That development helped pave the way for the vaccines that could start to put an end to the pandemic. ....

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