100 million covid shots in 100 days doesn’t get us back to normal
April 30 will mark the end of the first 100 days of President Joe Biden s tenure. That s a benchmark presidents often set for making good on high-priority campaign promises.
In early December, Biden announced that one promise would be to get 100 million covid-19 vaccines into the arms of Americans in the first 100 days, averaging about 1 million daily doses. The U.S. reached that pace around Inauguration Day but will have to maintain it for the next three months for Biden to reach his goal.
If realized, how will everyday life change? We asked the experts.
Vladislav Davidzon UkraineAlert
Vladislav Davidzon is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, based in France. Since 2018, he has served as a co-producer for a television series on the effects of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since 2012, also serves as the European culture correspondent for
Tablet Magazine in Paris, France. While working at the magazine, he has been an investigative journalist and researcher with assignments in Russia, Ukraine, England, and Poland. In 2015, Davidzon founded the
Odessa Review and served as its chief editor until July 2018. While he was with
Odessa Review, Davidzon helped publish 13 quarterly issues over the course of his tenure at the magazine.
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Wu Chien-ho in A Sun
Already streaming on Netflix, the director s vivid and novelistic crime drama has become a dark horse favorite in the best international film category among critics and tastemakers.
Taiwanese filmmaker Chung Mong-hong’s
A Sun takes the material of a young adult TV melodrama and infuses it with such patient artfulness that a masterfully crafted novel soon comes to feel like the form it most resembles.
The film explores the various personal and societal pressures a family of four endures after their youngest son is arrested for his part in a violent crime and sent to juvenile detention. The offender is the family s recidivist black sheep, perpetually living in the shadow of his overachieving older brother, who is their father s pride and bound for medical school. Shocking events eventually force a wrenching reevaluation of that hierarchy, but the film also achieves surprising moments of black comedy, while skillfully swerving in and out of the crime