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The 10,000-year history of our favorite Super Bowl dip

The 10,000-year history of our favorite Super Bowl dip

We can protect the most vulnerable without forcing the vaccine on those who conscientiously object.

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With vaccine demand still exceeding supply, LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion asked an expert on ethics to answer some questions regarding COVID-19 vaccination. Michele L. Mekel is the assistant director of Penn State University’s Bioethics Program and a teaching professor of bioethics; she is jointly appointed to the Humanities Department of Penn State College of Medicine. She’s also an affiliate faculty member of Penn State Law and the Rock Ethics Institute, and she serves as the co-pri...

THE ISSUE On April 13, 2020, about a month after what we generally consider to be the moment when COVID-19 began to dominate our lives, we wrote here that “good news is one of the best remedies we have at our disposal.” Of course, we had no idea then of how many months and how much heartbreak was ahead in this health crisis. But the sentiment we expressed nearly a year ago remains true. Good news represents welcome points of light in a dark time, and it deserves a brighter spotlight. ...