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1. “An Evolving Situation”
There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the
COVID-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020, when Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which was modelled on the American institution. Redfield had just received a report about an unexplained respiratory virus emerging in the city of Wuhan.
The field of public health had long been haunted by the prospect of a widespread respiratory-illness outbreak like the 1918 influenza pandemic, so Redfield was concerned. Gao, when pressed, assured him that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. At the time, the theory was that each case had arisen from animals in a “wet” market where exotic game was sold. When Redfield learned that, among twenty-seven reported cases, there were several famil
The year that was: A global pandemic, racial protests, a president-elect. Oh, and impeachment.
Remember impeachment? A timeline of 2020, a tumultuous year overtaken by a presidential election during a global pandemic and racial justice protests.
Susan Page and Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY
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6:41 pm UTC Dec. 28, 2020
What made 2020 unprecedented wasn t that it was a year of pandemic – there have been pandemics before – or that a president was impeached, or that there were massive marches for racial justice across the country, or that there was a disputed election. What made it unprecedented was this: They all happened in the same year. From the tragic to the confounding and more, here s a look at the year that s ending. At last.
Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators and family members December 28, 2020 11:46 am Clockwise from top left: Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Kirk Douglas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Catie Lazarus. (Getty Images; photo design by Grace Yagel)
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(JTA) There’s no way to tally all whom we lost in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested rituals of grief.
Among those who died this year were some of the Jewish world’s most famous and influential pillars in a range of industries, realms of thought and areas of activism from the pioneer jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the moral thought leader Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to the Modern Orthodox rabbi Norman Lamm to the influential LGBTQ activist Larry Kramer.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Getty/Shannon Finney)
A library in LA’s renowned West Hollywood gayborhood is to be named in honour of the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
West Hollywood City Council voted 3-2 at a meeting on 21 December to recommend naming a newly-built library after the late civil rights advocate, who is remembered for championing the cause of constitutional protection from discrimination, and her strong support for LGBT+ rights.
Councilwoman Sepi Shyne said in a statement: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an icon for women, our LGBT+ community, for workers and every progressive value that West Hollywood holds.