Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure, Murtaza Hussain on Trump's War on YemenCOUNTERSPIN  MP3 Link (photo: Christian Emmer) This week on CounterSpin: It isn't only the death toll—more than a million people around the world, a quarter of a million in the US alone—but the emerging list of other harms from the coronavirus, to the lungs, heart and brain, that make a vaccine seem like the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Whether our need would be so desperate had we taken strong, early societal measures is a different question; whether we should imagine vaccines as coming like cavalry to save us from human-impact-driven illness going forward, still another. There's enough to consider just looking at the infrastructure around vaccines—their efficient production and equitable distribution—as it is. Ravi Gupta is a physician and clinician scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote recently for Boston Review about the urgent need to "reimagine" our vaccine infrastructure; we talk to him about why. MP3 Link  (image: Airwars) Also on the show: "Yemenis are not 'going hungry.' They are being starved," a UN official tweeted recently, calling on all involved to "do everything" to avert further catastrophe in the country, where 80% of people rely on humanitarian aid. It piqued little media interest, though the New York Times quoted the same official recently talking about the effect of coronavirus in worsening Yemen's crisis. You know what worsened the crisis before coronavirus? Donald Trump, whose bombs and raids—and support for the bombs and raids of others—have been killing Yemeni civilians, including children, since the month he took office, as a new report from the group Airwars details. Yet somehow, in some corners he is still portrayed as an anti-interventionist president. We talk about Trump's war on Yemen with the Intercept's Murtaza Hussain. MP3 Link | 
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