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...numbers underscore the importance of vaccination in the effort to curb the spread of the disease, says Schuchat. They also support health officials' decision to target high-risk populations for the first immunizations. Of all hospitalized Americans, more than half were between ages 18 and 64, while only 9% were 65 or older. That distribution is the opposite of the way seasonal flu usually affects a community; in that case, 90% of hospitalizations are usually among the elderly...
...forward just enough, realizing that rebellion is most successful if a group effort. The intense misery of the final undoing of his marriage and the previous episode’s wrenching depiction of the President’s death are balanced by an overwhelming sense of open-mindedness, measured risk-taking, camaraderie, and a near total severance from the comfort and predictability of the past...
Some might contend that a Department of Culture would quickly become a Department of Propaganda. It could fall into the wrong hands. Yet this is a fear for any federal department. There’s a risk that even the Department of the Interior can fall prey to private contractors and a particular political ideology. Perhaps a more important question: Why should anyone have the authority to say what American culture is? There’s a fear that the Department of Culture could become an ethnocentric, gender- or class-biased agency. But the department need not take this route...
Spitzer criticized the federal assumption of bank debts, saying that socializing risk while privatizing gain creates an asymmetry and distorts incentives...
...administration already made the poor choice of not allowing students to stage a sleep-out in a controlled environment where there was no risk of lawbreaking—it should not compound one folly with another. This cause in particular is in line with Harvard’s mission, and its supporters should not be needlessly burdened. The administration should refrain from blocking harmless protests and potentially meting out unwarranted punishments and instead show that it agrees that climate change is a cause worth sleeping...