Three researchers who study health disparities are seeing increasing evidence that a lack of internet access is preventing people in racial and ethnic minority groups from getting vaccines.
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How Prince won the Super Bowl
On this day in 2007, Prince won Super Bowl XLI with a soaring halftime performance that climaxed with the skies opening up to honor his guitar solo. It is not just the best-regarded halftime show ever, but was to that point the most-viewed musical performance in American history.
NYTimes: The vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize.
As some folks sweat the effectiveness of COVID vaccines on the market, NYTimes points out that studies for all five vaccinnes have shown they essentially eliminate COVID deaths:
By those measures, all five of the vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Novavax and Johnson & Johnson — look extremely good. Of the roughly 75,000 people who have received one of the five in a research trial, not a single person has died from Covid, and only a few people appear to have been hospitalized. None have remained hospitalized 28 days after receiving a shot.
To put that in perspective, it helps to think about what Covid has done so far to a representative group of 75,000 American adults: It has killed roughly 150 of them and sent several hundred more to the hospital. The vaccines reduce those numbers to zero and nearly zero, based on the research trials.
Zero isn’t even the most relevant benchmark. A typical U.S. flu season kills between five and 15 out of every 75,000 adults and hospitalizes more than 100 of them.
A Vintage Paper Airplane Collection
Harry Everett Smith was an artist and a collector. One of the things he collected was paper airplanes — he picked up hundreds of them from the streets and buildings of New York between 1961 and 1983.
It’s Time: The COVID Tracking Project Will Soon Come to an End
After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States, we’re ending our data compilation work in early March.
Life is to live and life is to give and talents are
Fr. Solanus Casey
to use for good if you choose.
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks —
then the doing of your work shall be no
miracle but you shall be a miracle.
Every day you shall wonder at yourself …
at the richness of life which has come
to you by the grace of God. But everyone
needs someone — knowing that
somewhere someone is thinking of you.
What the Hell Is Going On With GameStop’s Stock?
In April, GameStop was a struggling video game and electronics retailer trying to sort out its future as the pandemic worsened consumer trends that were already working against it.
@JasonKenney on Twitter, a Virginia man, is hearing from angry Albertans
EDMONTON — Jason Kenney is in the United States sending out tweets about his cabinet; not Alberta premier Jason Kenney, but a man who shares the same name and is renovating his kitchen.
A tale of two Jason Kenneys: Virginia man often mistaken for Alberta premier on Twitter
On Twitter, Jason Kenney is often confused with Alberta’s premier. You see, the man from Richmond, Virginia has the same name as the prominent Alberta politician.
Sometimes you get your ass whooped, right? And it doesn’t go your way. And you got to take your whooping and move on and get better and come back to the next thing.
Mike Rhoades