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Bernie Sanders: “The real outrage, it seems to me, and this is above and beyond the culprit, the horrors of the COVID pandemic, is that…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2021
The real outrage, it seems to me, and this is above and beyond the culprit, the horrors of the COVID pandemic, is that not all of our society is seeing a decline in life expectancy.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders points out the unequal impact on life expectancy across different segments of society.

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