Fizer submits clinical trial data about the safety and efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccine

in children aged 5 to 11 to the FDA in preparation to apply to extend their emergency use authorization.

Merck announces results of a clinical trial on a new COVID-19 antiviral pill that they

say reduces hospitalizations by 50%.

Thousands of healthcare workers are choosing to lose their jobs rather than get vaccinated

as mandates go into effect.

This is American Deceptive.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdu Lalsaim.

There are few countries in the world that have been hit as hard with COVID-19 as the US.

A little more than a year and a half since the pandemic began,

we've crossed 700,000 lives lost to COVID-19,

more lives lost than in any other nation.

And yet so much of the devastation was of our own making.

We'll have a fly!

These healthcare workers who can see behind me say they believe it should be their choice

as to whether or not they choose to get the vaccine.

Some say they're even willing to get fired over not getting it,

but they say who it really hurts are the patients and the midst of a nursing shortage.

From the jump, Americans balked at the most basic standards of safety in a pandemic.

Social distancing, lockdowns, masks, contact tracing,

an astoundingly large proportion of our country,

fueled by politicization by a former president and misinformation by some of our largest corporations,

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