Congress Helps Itself to Vaccine Doses as Americans Wait

POISON PILL

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Their attending physician just said that top aides in each office can get the vaccine now, along with the lawmakers themselves.

Published Dec. 29 2020 5:41PM EST

Our supposed representatives in Washington just gave their aides and themselves a literal lifeline, and the rest of us, the people, a raised middle finger.

Margaret Carlson

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Congress Helps Itself to Vaccine Doses as Americans Wait

Their attending physician just said that top aides in each office can get the vaccine now, along with the lawmakers themselves.

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