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Good Vaccine News Good morning. The vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize. Image A nurse prepared a dose of the Moderna vaccine in the Bronx on Saturday.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times The news about the vaccines continues to be excellent — and the public discussion of it continues to be more negative than the facts warrant. Here’s the key fact: All five deaths. They have also drastically reduced hospitalizations. “They’re all good trial results,” C...

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Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Experts have been looking forward to seeing results from Johnson and Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine trials for months. The vaccine is a logistical dream compared to the other two authorized in the US. It’s much easier to store, and it requires only one shot instead of the two required by its competitors. The only outstanding question was how well it actually worked. On Friday, they got their answer — it works pretty well. A newsletter highlighting the COV...

email article Recently, I was part of a pro-con debate as to how we in medical circles should advise people regarding restrictions after they get vaccinated, and received some backlash that devolved into personal attacks. I believe how professionals handle disagreement in the time of a global crisis illustrates broader challenges we face with tribalism, virtue signaling and politics. Medicine is rapidly becoming a tribal field, and I learned this the hard way. For taking a side in a debat...

Goldberg: The pandemics inhuman demands Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times © Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard Fitness coordinator Janet Hollander, center, leads a session of "Balcony Boogie" from outside Willamette Oaks in Eugene for residents sheltering in their apartments during the COVID-19 shutdown. The staff of the senior housing center modified some of the regular routines for residents, staging activities like morning stretches and aerobic opportunities while still ...

A Conversation With Joe Biden And what else you need to know today. Good morning. Joe Biden talks about his plans on Covid and more. Image Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Wilmington, Del., yesterday.Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York Times “It will be the first priority, the second priority and the third priority — to deal with Covid and bring down the spread and bring down the death rate,” President-elect Joe Biden told me during a phone call yesterday. I had asked how he would try to persu...

Few can endure the loneliness that is a moral requirement of this moment. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Masks are a common sight in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The Utah Department of Health on Friday reported a seven-day average of 2,702 new positive test results per day — below last week’s rate of nearly 3,000. By Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times   | Dec. 22, 2020, 11:00 p.m. Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles a...

>> Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Published: 22 Dec 2020 11:22 AM BdST Updated: 22 Dec 2020 11:22 AM BdST A medical worker stretches outside Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 14. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs   Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children. "); } Seeing this cryst...

Dec. 21, 2020 The journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children. Seeing this crystallized something I’d been dimly aware of. The strange politics of the coronavirus have created a taboo, at least in certain progressive circles, in talking too much about the emotional suffering wrought by nine months of purgatorial i...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lets talk some more about what to do about the holidays. For many families, this holiday season has already been emotionally fraught as theyve tried to balance their desire to be together with the pleas from public health officials to stay home. And even before Thanksgiving, the message was that traveling is irresponsible, and the hashtag #covidiots appeared, calling out people who ignored official warnings. Yet millions of people did make the decision that it was worth tra...