To the extent that misinformation has led some to shun proven COVID-19 prevention measures, the two plagues have been in a kind of mutually reinforcing tango since the pandemic’s earliest days.
The Senate demurred on providing any aid to help poorer countries vaccinate their citizens, in effect turning our backs on people who need COVID-19 aid the most. It’s a terrible idea that is likely to backfire on our own country.
In the debacle that is the tennis star Novak Djokovic’s effort to flout the rules to play in the Australian Open, we’ve hit my trifecta: sports plus scandal plus public health.