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Alternate NYT headline:92 PERCENT OF AMERICANS RECEIVED SECOND COVID SHOT ON TIME, WILDLY EXCEEDING PAST TWO DOSE VACCINE CAMPAIGNS“Given so much protection comes from the first shot,” one official said,

If ppl like Tyler Perry didn’t fight unions & instead paid the ppl they employ a living wage...and if Georgia didn’t give him tax breaks to do this but instead

Reading abt Ma’Khia Bryant & those who think she deserved state execution bc she had a knife, I am reminded of when I pitched a sad story I wanted to

1. A few thoughts on this strange, ahistorical graf from Biden’s comments on the Chauvin trial and the Floyd protestsFirst, you do NOT have to harken back to the 60s

For scale, pls keep in mind:—About one in every 588 Americans have died of COVID (562K of 331 million ppl)—About one in 10 Americans have been infected w COVID (31

Not cautious. Low risk. Other than nursing homes & hospitals, the most vulnerable people were NOT done first: people in prison, line cooks, shift workers, farm workers, undocumented ppl, service

Under-examined in vaccine hesitancy discourse is how decades of a “you’re on your own” approach to health makes it hard to get ppl to buy into collective health campaigns. If

The conundrum is that not that many deaths will come from any single gathering. Most ppl who get SARS-CoV-2 don’t get symptoms, TINY % die. But millions of chains of

Thinking today abt how many US Jews spent their holiest days of 2020 “with” family on Zoom, and abt how many US Christians are indicating that we are not willing

Something to ponder re the photos of ppl in line at airports:The airlines + the fueled jets + the govt + 300 yrs of mythology & socialization say this is

Not to be a killjoy, but to be a killjoy:There's been good HIV meds for 25 yrs. Yet, the better part of a million (mostly nonwhite) ppl still die of

1/x Gonna do a close read on the language & public health messaging in the "Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19," as posted at their transition website. First of all, there