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The CDC’s $1.75 billion sequencing boom may be throwing money at the wrong problem
Shortly after President Biden was inaugurated, the man who was being given command of his coronavirus response had a message about what America needed to do. “We’re 43rd in the world in genomic sequencing,” said Jeff Zients at a press conference in January. “Totally unacceptable.” The answer, he suggested, was to “do the appropriate amount…
How the pandemic is fueling the tech industry’s union push
The last votes for one of the most closely-watched unionization drives in modern history came in on Monday, March 29, and results could be announced shortly. The vote among almost 6,000 workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama on whether to join the Retail Warehouse and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, drew reaction…