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Across the U.S., 57.3% of nursing home staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 compared to 80.2% of residents •Lagging vaccination rates among workers are being linked to breakthrough infections and deaths among seniors •At one facility in Grand Junction, Colorado, 16 fully vaccinated residents were infected and four died •In Indiana, seven residents died from COVID-19 at a facility where less than half the staff - 44% - was fully vaccinated •Fully vaccinated older adults are still at a higher risk of infection than the general population because they have weaker immune systems •Some policy experts are urging the government...

Preach it, sister!

"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" asked Joseph Welch in his famous confrontation with the pathologically cruel Joe McCarthy. "Have you left no sense of decency?" More than a half-century later, I would ask the same question of Florida's governor, Jeb Bush. In an abuse of power that has been widely denounced, and has even appalled many of his own supporters in the Republican Party, Governor Bush has tried to keep the Terri Schiavo circus alive by sending state prosecutors on a witch hunt against her husband, Michael. The state attorney who has been pushed by...