Here, and below, some of the submissions by Times readers of images that most evoked the pandemic for them. Photos above are by Carol, Antonella DeCicci, Reshma Thomas, Susan Smith, Kathy Rebhan and Florence Silberman. It’s been a time of isolation and illness, of new habits and lessons, of grief and hope. As this pandemic …
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An air traffic control center that serves Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was closed for several hours on Wednesday for cleaning after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus, grounding flights at one of the world’s busiest hubs. The disruption at the center — which handles high-altitude air traffic for most of North Texas, northwest Louisiana, …
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SIMLA, Colo. — This isolated ranching community on the high plains is the last place local residents expect to be first for anything, especially a new, more infectious variant of the coronavirus. But on Wednesday state health officials announced the first known case of the variant in the United States had been confirmed in a …
The Small Colorado Town Shrugged Off the Pandemic. Then Came the Coronavirus Variant. Read More »
“The more you hit the stimulus button, the less impact you see,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco. And the hardest hit sectors — dining, entertainment and travel — are unlikely to see much of a boost now, since consumers are wary of going out or live in …
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The State of the Virus: 2020 in Review Mitch SmithReporting on the coronavirus Michael Conroy/Associated PressBy late summer, case numbers were dropping. But as university students returned to class, a new wave of outbreaks emerged. By the end of the fall term, more than 397,000 cases would be identified on more than 1,800 college campuses.
When I’m having trouble falling asleep, I think about a paddle boat ride I took in 2010. My husband and I were on our honeymoon, staying at a hotel in Portugal that was right on the bay. I have a visceral memory of raising my face to the sun, lazily paddling around while the sea …
A Chinese pharmaceutical company on Wednesday said late-stage drug trials showed that one of its coronavirus vaccines was effective, delivering positive results that could pave the way for the global rollout of hundreds of millions of Chinese vaccine doses in the coming months. The company, a state-controlled firm called Sinopharm, said that a vaccine candidate[1] …
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But the majority of Senate Republicans still remain opposed to the plan. “What we ought to be doing is focusing on the $900 billion that we’ve already approved and that Secretary Mnuchin helped us negotiate,” Senator John Cornyn of Texas said. “Instead of taking appropriate credit for those good things, focusing on” the issue of …
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I’ve written several versions of this story. First it was supposed to be an account of a small theater company’s ambitious stage project, then a story about that interrupted project and the company’s plan to regroup because of the pandemic. Now it’s an elegy for a small theater that the coronavirus shut down. On a …
Lost in 2020: Epic Shakespeare, and the Theater That Planned It Read More »
MOSCOW — After months of questions over the true scale of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia[1] and the efficacy of a Russian-developed vaccine, the state statistical agency in Moscow has announced new figures indicating that the death toll from Covid-19 is more than three times as high as officially reported. From the start of the …
