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The US is in an "in-between" place. Vaccination substantially reduces #covid19 risk but doesn't eliminate it. There isn't one right answer & people will make different choices from one another.Here

Imagine, if at last night's #JointSession , President Biden allowed only vaccinated individuals. They could take off their masks, hug & sit together--just like 2019.That would be the strongest message

I'm a physician & woman who's in the under 50 age group. I'd chosen to receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. If I knew then what I know now about

As a doctor and volunteer in the J&J clinical trial who received the vaccine

Some have argued that because schools don't contribute significantly to community spread, they should stay open. I disagree. There is explosive #covid19 spread. Most schools should be closed through the winter.My @washingtonpost op

In the midst of the #covid19 pandemic, the U.S. is facing a crisis of confidence in our federal government’s top scientific institutions.We can still turn this around, though the window

The U.S. has just reached 100,000 deaths from #covid19. What have we learned? A thread of 10 lessons: 1. This is an extremely contagious respiratory illness that spreads rapidly from

My takeaways so far from Dr. Rick Bright's testimony (1/3):(1) There were so many opportunities to try to contain #covid19, many warnings sounded, that were not heeded. In fact, we