With infections increasing once more, and hospitalization rising among older adults, health experts offer a timely warning: a coronavirus infection can look different in older patients.
As coronavirus tore through New York, a group of medical students graduated early to help the hospitals under siege and found courage they didn’t know they had.
To the Editor:
Why do you conclude that it is now “all but guaranteed” that a comprehensive nonpartisan inquiry will not take place? We have had several presidentially appointed commissions to investigate major tragedies in our history, including the assassination of President Kennedy.
We should not despair. President Biden, you have the power and authority to appoint a commission (including, I suggest, respected former senators from both parties) to shed light on this shameful and dastardly attack on our nation. Please do so.
Paul H. Singer
To the Editor:
After the rejection by Senate Republicans of the proposed Jan. 6 commission, it is obvious that the Senate filibuster is incompatible with democracy. When a legislative rule allows 35 votes to prevail over 54 votes, that is not democracy it is minority rule. In fact, it is possible for a filibuster to be sustained by senators representing only 15 to 20 percent of the population, surely not what the framers envisioned.