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- BREAKING: Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response. buff.ly/38ndSiS
- How @DGlaucomflecken, the alter ego of ophthalmologist Will Flanary, became an internet sensation. buff.ly/3JIRBeU
- EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration invited the leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to a celebratory “Vaccine Summit” on Tuesday. Neither plans to attend. buff.ly/2JAxbLC
- SCOOP: The Trump administration quietly spent $10 billion from a fund Congress created to help health care providers with Covid-19 costs, and used it on Operation Warp Speed contracts instead. buff.ly/2NVzZ87
- New research finds that crows can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals. buff.ly/300Jshh
- EXCLUSIVE: @DrPhil presents himself as a crusader for recovery who rescues people from their addictions. But his show has put at risk the health of some of those guests it purports to help, a STAT @BostonGlobe investigation has found statnews.com/2017/12/28/dr-…
00:00 - BREAKING: The first known U.S. case of the highly transmissible variant of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K. has been reported in Colorado. Story to come.
- “He will reach out to Tony Fauci. He will declare his intent to be an active participant in the WHO and in the world. And I believe that in very short order, he’ll be in touch with governors and mayors around the country." buff.ly/35aA7GJ
- Johnson & Johnson expanded global access to tuberculosis drug this week amid novelist and YouTube star John Green joining an advocacy campaign.
- BREAKING: ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from prison buff.ly/3yOVH2y
- BREAKING: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate buff.ly/38tuC7U
- BREAKING: 'A blizzard of prescriptions': Documents reveal new details about Purdue's marketing of OxyContin buff.ly/2VNUiDs
- BREAKING: FDA grants historic approval to Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow cognitive decline buff.ly/3w0LpZ3
