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The Real Cost Of A COVID Test? It Depends.

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abbott binax, abbott rapid test, city of detroit, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, COVID19, detroit documenters, kayleigh lickliter, mike duggan, nCoV19, omicron, outlier media, pcr, pcr test, polymerase chain reaction, public health, rapid pcr test, rapid test, rapid testing, tcf center, test, test site, test sites

In a city whose government has aggressively and continually underfunded public transit, human services, and infrastructure, it can sometimes prove

Public Health Government

Detroit Gets It Right On Vaccine Rollout

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments astra zeneca, astra zeneca vaccine, astrazeneca, cardi b coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, COVID19 vaccine, detroit lions, ford field, JNJ vaccine, johnson & johnson vaccine, moderna, moderna vaccine, pfizer, pfizer vaccine, tcf center, vaccine, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine rollout, vaccines, why are the detroit lions so bad

Vaccine rollout in Detroit has gone a lot better than management of the pandemic when it first started, and for this, the city should be given credit.

Politics

Sidebar: Is Disinformation The Cornerstone of the American Right?

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 elections, 2020 presidential election, amanda marcotte, cameroon, cenk uygur, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, democratic party, dennis prager, Donald Trump, fox news, hydroxychloroquine, jeff tiedrich, jenny beth martin, joe biden, karen, laura ingraham, media, news media, newt gingrich, presidential election, republican party, roy blunt, rush limbaugh, sarah palin, scott dworkin, sean hannity, stella immanuel, tcf center, tea pain, television media, trump, tucker carlson

The Tea Party Super PAC that incited Trump voters to protest the ballot count is the same group that pushed crackpot theories about COVID19 this past summer.

Politics Movements & Organizing

Michigan’s Election Plunges Headfirst Down A Weird Rabbit Hole

November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ballots, biden, black mirror, bob dutko, chris wallace, cobo, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, darryl wood, democracy, dennis prager, Detroit, detroit police, Donald Trump, joe biden, laura ingraham, pandemic, polls, protest, protest movements, protesters, rush limbaugh, sean hannity, shaffwan ahmed, tcf center, tea party, trump, tucker carlson, voting

A crowd of pro-Trump protesters, partially incited by a Tea Party Super PAC, came down to the TCF Center in downtown Detroit to demand that the ballot count be stopped as the tally of mail-in ballots indicated that Joe Biden was pulling ahead by a larger margin.

Business & Economics

Net Impact 19!

October 29, 2019November 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amy peterson, cobo center, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Detroit, environmental social & governance, ESG, jenny kim, koch industries, kristin shaw, net impact, ni19, rebel nell, tcf center

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I had the opportunity to attend Net Impact 19 at the TCF Center. I sort of