If you followed along with Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House coronavirus task force coordinator, you might have experienced some frustration at what the White House was (or more accurately, wasn’t) doing in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
In an interview with The New York Times, the infectious disease expert described what it was really like to work for the 45th president.
“I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made,” the former White House coronavirus response coordinator told CBS.
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“I think that the supply is probably going to be the most limiting constraint early on,” the CDC director said.
When I was a child, my dad invented a game that I loved. Wherever we went, he’d predict what strangers were about to say or do. We’d walk into a store and he’d point at the salesman and say something like, “Watch this. When I tell him how much I’m willing to spend, he’ll immediately show me something more expensive.” The salesman did exactly as Dad had prophesized.
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To watch a bald eagle raid a nesting colony of great blue herons is a gut-churning experience. “The herons have a progression of alarms,” explains Ross Vennesland, a researcher with Environment and Climate Change Canada. “They start with a chortle, and quickly move to really hideous screaming as the eagle swoops in and lands on the nest.” The adult herons are usually forced to flee, while the eagle cracks open an egg or flies away with a chick.
with its waterlogged wings spread open,
drying off on a rock in the middle
of a man-made lake after diving for food
and it makes me think about wonder
and it makes me want to pry and stretch
my shy arms open to the subtle summer
wind slicing through the park, sliding
over my skin like a stream of people
blowing candles out over my feathery
body and it makes me think about my
church when I was a kid, and how I
lifted my hands to Jesus, hoping
for surrender, but often felt nothing,
except for the
Ruth Faden, an expert in biomedical ethics with Johns Hopkins University, has helped vaccine drives answer some tough questions: Who should be ahead of whom? Do we prioritize speed or equity? And once people are inoculated, should they get “vaccine passports” allowing freer movement?She joins James Hamblin and guest host Maeve Higgins on the podcast Social Distance to assess how we’ve done so far—and what we could expect next.
Some of the couples eligible for coronavirus-relief stimulus checks last year, and who could receive up to $2,800 more under Joe Biden’s proposed plan, paraded in their golf carts in support of Donald Trump through the Villages, a Florida community for people over 55. Many are retired and living comfortably, their benefits protected by the government safety net. If they had lost jobs during the pandemic, they would have been eligible for expanded unemployment benefits.
You can, in fact, call for “unity” and pursue policies that Republicans don’t like.
You can, in fact, call for “unity” and pursue policies that Republicans don’t like.
Warm weather, low taxes, and a mayor ready to nurse their grievances about Bay Area liberalism.
Warm weather, low taxes, and a mayor ready to nurse their grievances about Bay Area liberalism.
He can’t possibly expect the GOP to go along with this—but that might be a good thing.
The change means fewer vials of vaccine as some states complain they’ve run out of shots.
“I mean, why would you want to put yourself through that every day?” Birx says in the interview.
He can’t possibly expect the GOP to go along with this—but that might be a good thing.
“When you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful,” said Fauci.
States are warning they’re running out of the vaccine, with little sense of when more will arrive.
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