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How the First American Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Feels About the Pandemic a Year Later
Nurse Sandra Lindsay has advocated for vaccination in the U.S. and abroad
U.S. Surpasses 50 Million COVID-19 Cases. It Has Been Worse
The number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. surpassed 50 million on Monday as the pandemic reached yet another inglorious milestone. While this is very unlikely to be the final time the odometer’s seventh wheel turns over—“50 million” is also known as 50,000,000—there remains some hope that the endless accumulation is at least…
Pfizer Confirms COVID-19 Pill’s Results, Potency Versus Omicron
The drug reduced hospitalizations and deaths by about 89% among high-risk adults when taken shortly after initial symptoms
My Kids Want Plastic Toys. I Want to Go Green. Here’s the Middle Ground
Waiting in a check-out line a few days ago, my children started begging for toys and trinkets hanging on the impulse-buy racks. Rather than replying with the usual “Not today” euphemism, I found myself saying, “Maybe for Christmas.” Alas, it’s that time of year again when I cave because I want my kids’ faces to…
New York’s COVID Surge Is Back—and So Is Its Mask Mandate
The mandate will be in effect until Jan. 15
How One Massachusetts Town Could Shape the Future of Tobacco
As Katharine Silbaugh sees it, one mark of a good public policy is being both big and small: big in its potential impact, small in its disruption to people’s lives. Silbaugh, a lawyer and one of the 240 elected “town meeting members” who make up local government in the picturesque Boston suburb of Brookline, thinks…
Pfizer-BioNTech Booster Protects Against Omicron
The companies reported on preliminary data showing encouraging results with a booster dose of their vaccine
Holiday Gifts That Actually Fight Climate Change
If you’re stuck on what to buy as Christmas gifts this year, a Swiss start-up has a suggestion: some carbon dioxide. Climeworks AG owns the world’s largest direct-air carbon capture facility, in Iceland, where dozens of machines suck in air and filter out the CO2, so it can be stored permanently underground and prevented from…
All Private Employers in NYC Will Have to Require COVID-19 Vaccination by Dec. 27
NEW YORK — From multinational banks to corner grocery stores, all private employers in New York City will have to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the mayor announced Monday, imposing one of the most aggressive vaccine rules in the nation. The move by Mayor Bill de Blasio comes as cases are climbing…
What Rising Oil Prices Can Teach Us About Climate Politics in the U.S.
For decades, U.S. presidents have reacted harshly to high oil prices, using whatever limited power they had to try to push them lower and then publicizing said efforts in hopes that they would win political points. Ronald Reagan took credit for oil prices falling during his tenure, crediting his deregulatory agenda. Bill Clinton released oil…
Climate Experts Say Vacuuming CO2 From the Sky is a Costly Boondoggle. The U.S. Government Just Funded It Anyway
The U.S. is dumping billions of dollars into the tiny sector
‘Cows Are the New Coal.’ How the Cattle Industry Is Ignoring the Bottom Line When It Comes to Methane Emissions
One of the early, attention-grabbing announcements at November’s COP climate conference in Glasgow was a commitment by more than 105 countries to join a U.S.- and E.U.-led coalition to cut 30% of methane emissions by 2030. The potent greenhouse gas, which is up to 80 times more effective at heating the planet than carbon dioxide…