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A Cure for Mistrust

presidential debate in early October, Kamala Harris was asked if she’d take a coronavirus vaccine. If it had the blessing of public health officials, Harris said, she would be the first in line. “But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I’m not taking it,” she said. Harris was careful to distinguish between the president and public health officials in her answer, but for much of her audience,

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