President Joe Biden loosened intellectual property restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines last week in an effort to slow the pandemic — which, reminder, is very much still going on. On today’s show, we’ll follow on that news a bit and talk about where the real money is made from those vaccines. Plus: The Food and Drug Administration says yes to vaccines for more teens, attorneys general say no to Instagram for kids, and America says “well … OK” to the return of Bennifer.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
“States Urge Facebook to Abandon Plan for Children’s Instagram” from The Wall Street Journal
“Indian coronavirus mutation a ‘variant of concern’” from The New York Times
“Why Joe Biden Punched Big Pharma in the Nose Over Covid Vaccines” from Matt Stoller’s newsletter “Big”
Ben Affleck and J. Lo are on the same schedule as the cicadas
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