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Fatal abstractions
Disease, death, and capitalist abstraction
by Sam FriedmanThere are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.