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...better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he was the movies' version of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway, Hughes was just what Hollywood needed and rarely got: somebody whose films weren't about teenagers but inside them. Almost never before had kids looking for wish fulfillment...
...televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic, 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957, and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series of question marks. The punctuation was designed to make a larger point. As a senior official in charge of responding to the crisis later told TIME, "You are going to see a spike...
...hospital for the flu. Because the serum, which is still being developed, won't be ready until at least mid-October, full immunity may not kick in until early December - after the second doses are administered and an additional couple of weeks pass. "In all likelihood, this flu will hit before vaccine is available for people," explains Napolitano. "We are asking people to be resilient...
...spaces to administer the vaccines this fall - and it will be a few weeks before more is known about where and when the shots will be given. The sheer size of the vaccination task causes some of the greatest concern for public-health experts, and it has begun to hit home for people like Kevin Sherin, the public-health director in Orlando, Fla. He oversees a school system with about 175,000 students, a county with more than 1 million residents and a tourist industry that cycles through 49 million visitors in a typical year. He says he has eight...
...While Washington waits for vaccines, the government is moving toward a wartime footing. The Department of Education is encouraging schools to prepare take-home study packets so kids can continue learning if their schools close. The Department of Labor has been drafting guidance for employers who may be hit by thousands of parents who need to stay home with their kids. All of it is being done very quickly for a threat that is unknowable and, scientists say, fast approaching. "Early on, there were some folks who said you can't go out and talk about this because...