The administration is seeking help in urging Republicans to get inoculated. But the president said he was not sure how much value there was in enlisting his predecessor.
Regulator Vouches for AstraZeneca, Despite Suspension by European Countries
The suspension impedes Europe’s already troubled vaccination campaign amid a third coronavirus wave. Europe’s top drug regulator said there was no sign that the shot had caused dangerous side effects.
A drive-through vaccination center in Milan on Monday, the day Italy suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published March 16, 2021Updated March 23, 2021
LONDON After the European Union’s biggest countries suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, the continent’s top drug regulator pushed back hard on Tuesday against fears about the shot, saying there was no sign of its causing rare but dangerous problems, and strong evidence that its lifesaving benefits “outweigh the risk of the side effects.”
Clergy Preach Faith in the Covid Vaccine to Doubters
With widespread immunity essential to ending the pandemic, priests, imams, rabbis and swamis are successfully urging their congregations to get the shots. Many people trust them more than they trust health officials.
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Published March 14, 2021Updated March 19, 2021
During a recent Sunday service at the Gathering Place, an evangelical church in Orlando, Fla., the Rev. Gabriel Salguero focused his sermon on the Covid-19vaccine, and the fear and suspicion that his largely Latino congregation clutches so tightly.
Tasmanian Tigers Are Extinct. Why Do People Keep Seeing Them?
Quirks of the human mind and how we process information might explain the uncanny appearances of thylacines.
The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, a large, predatory marsupial that ranged across Tasmania and Australia, was declared extinct in 1936.Credit.The Picture Art Collection/Alamy
By Asher Elbein
The Tasmanian tiger is still extinct. Reports of its enduring survival are greatly exaggerated.
Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs than tigers and ranged across Tasmania and the Australia mainland, were declared extinct in 1936. But on Feb. 23, Neil Waters, president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, promised conclusive photographic proof of a surviving thylacine. The four photos, he claimed, showed a family of thylacines, including a juvenile, moving through dense brush. The announcement kicked off a flurry of excitement among wildlife a