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Originally published on December 27, 2020 7:38 am Editors Note: As this year winds down, were looking back at some people we spoke to earlier in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was in its early stages. Now that theres a vaccine, we wanted to check in with someone whose family has a long history with vaccines. When I spoke to Dr. Peter Salk back in May, he told me the tale of receiving an early polio vaccine - the one invented by his father, Dr. Jonas Salk. "I just hated injections. And my...

Erie Times-News staff The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Sunday reported 116 new COVID-19 cases in Erie County and 4,884 new positive cases statewide. Erie County has 11,205 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic started. As of Saturday, the state reporting dashboard showed, there were 112 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Erie County, 62 of them in adult intensive care unit beds. There were 13 patients on ventilators. A total of 49,793 negative COVID-19 tests have been reported in th...

For Americans of a certain generation, the coronavirus vaccine rollout evoked searing memories of an earlier era — one that rescued their childhood from fear and the sudden loss of classmates and siblings.

Vaccine memories of another time and place Many older Americans, shut in during this year’s pandemic, share haunting recollections from the polio era of their childhood. New York Times December 26, 2020 / 08:36 AM IST Jonathan Salk at his home in La Jolla, California on December 20, 2020. Dr. Jonas Salk is a medical researcher who developed a vaccine for polio is his father. (Image by John Francis Peters © 2020 The New York Times) Lizzo’s “...

The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the... Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom, an Orthodox synagogue in Washington, DC, participated in the Moderna vaccine trial, posting video of himself receiving the shot to the video-sharing platform TikTok. “We have been given the Torah to live by its laws,” said Herzfeld. “The value of preserving life is the essential, axiomatic value of Judaism. Over the next few months, we encourage our com...