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Some of the pharmaceutical companies developing Covid-19 vaccine candidates have pledged to not take a profit.

Fans of Gordon Gekko’s “greed is good” quote forget he was the villain in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film “Wall Street.”

Let’s remember, the USDA should never have awarded a $39 million contract to CRE8AD8, a San Antonio event planner we wouldn’t entrust with putting tchotchkes in a bag, let alone delivering food for struggling families.

For more than 100,000 young Texans, many of whom only know the U.S. as home, the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision blocking President Donald Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) was cause for celebration —welcome news amid the struggle to protect Black lives and the harsh strain of the pandemic and the related economic crisis. But, importantly, this ruling represents a reprieve, not a resolution, of the problem Trump created.

A nursing home deep on San Antonio’s South Side appears to have received $9.3 million in federal bailout funds meant to go to medical providers serving on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Hunters Pond Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center recently reported getting the funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economics Security Act and other federal programs.

The US government's current supply of remdesivir, the only drug known to work against Covid-19, will run out at the end of the month, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, told CNN.

Two U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Friday launched an inquiry into whether the Health and Human Services Department misdirected billions of dollars in coronavirus stimulus money to healthcare providers facing criminal or civil fraud investigations.

Two House Democrats announced Friday they are launching an inquiry into whether the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) misallocated billions in coronavirus stimulus funds meant for hospitals and health care providers during the pandemic.