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Opinion | School Closures Have Failed America’s Children

Flags are flying at half-staff across the United States to commemorate the half-million American lives lost to the coronavirus. But there’s another tragedy we haven’t adequately confronted: Millions of American schoolchildren will soon have missed a year of in-person instruction, and we may have inflicted permanent damage on some of them, and on our country. […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 24, 2021, 7:00 pm
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State Lawmakers Defy Governors in a Covid-Era Battle for Power

Partisan warfare over pandemic lockdowns and mask-wearing is on the wane in Washington: A bitter presidential election has been decided, coronavirus cases are plummeting nationally and vaccines are rolling out slowly but steadily. Yet in state Capitols, the politicized fights are boiling over. State lawmakers across the country, most of them Republicans, are moving aggressively […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 22, 2021, 3:43 pm
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Hurt by Lockdowns, California’s Small Businesses Push to Recall Newsom

Small businesses across the country have suffered from shutdowns that sometimes seem to flare up as suddenly as surges in the coronavirus itself. Restaurants, gyms, corner stores and spas have closed, some after trying to hang in there for months. The pain in California has been acute. Nearly 40,000 small businesses had closed in the […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 19, 2021, 6:26 pm
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Are N.Y.C. Restaurant Customers Ready for Indoor Dining Again?

Fragrant baskets of grilled kebabs were served on wood tables freshly scrubbed with Lysol. Diners were offered hand sanitizer and asked to keep their masks on when not eating or drinking. The waiter wore a mask too. The dining room at Addy’s Barbeque in Astoria, Queens, showed signs of life again after indoor dining returned […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 19, 2021, 10:33 am
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The Drawbacks of Living in a Tiny Home During a Pandemic

Keri Gailloux’s tiny home — a converted school bus — is also retired now, thanks to the pandemic. Ms. Gailloux, 68, had lived and worked in San Francisco running a hepatitis C training program for primary care doctors, but after retirement she converted the school bus which she named “Skoolie,” into a mobile home so […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 13, 2021, 7:31 am
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Biden Reviving Effort to Empty Guantánamo Prison

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Friday that it would study how it could best close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, renewing an effort to make good on a promise made more than 12 years ago by President Barack Obama. Emily J. Horne, the National Security Council spokeswoman, said the process would involve […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 12, 2021, 9:31 pm
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in Children and Childhood, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Coronavirus Reopenings, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Education (K-12), masks, Shutdowns (Institutional)

We Asked 175 Pediatric Disease Experts if It Was Safe Enough to Open School

Many of the common preconditions to opening schools — including vaccines for teachers or students, and low rates of infection in the community — are not necessary to safely teach children in person, a consensus of pediatric infectious disease experts said in a new survey. Instead, the 175 experts — mostly pediatricians focused on public […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 12, 2021, 5:45 am
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Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm

This is a crisis that reveals California’s conservatism — not the political conservatism that privatizes Medicare, but the temperamental conservatism that stands athwart change and yells “Stop!” In much of San Francisco, you can’t walk 20 feet without seeing a multicolored sign declaring that Black lives matter, kindness is everything and no human being is […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 11, 2021, 5:00 am
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What Will It Take to Reopen Schools?

The Biden administration is determined to restart in-person learning quickly. But there are some major hurdles. View the Original Article More

by Tonya Frazier February 10, 2021, 6:00 am
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‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants

LANSING, Mich. — Dozens of heavily armed militiamen crowded into the Michigan Statehouse last April to protest a stay-at-home order by the Democratic governor to slow the pandemic. Chanting and stomping their feet, they halted legislative business, tried to force their way onto the floor and brandished rifles from the gallery over lawmakers below. Initially, […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 8, 2021, 9:14 pm
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An Overnight Refuge for Homeless New Yorkers, Lost to the Pandemic

On a piercingly cold December night, a handful of homeless passengers sought refuge on heated subway trains rumbling deep into Brooklyn. But when they arrived at the end of the line just after 1 a.m., those riders awoke to a grim reality: The subway was shutting down and they would have to leave. Some slipped […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 8, 2021, 11:35 am
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Its Musicians Are Out of Work, but the Met Is Streaming

The Metropolitan Opera rang in 2020 auspiciously, with a Puccini gala featuring Anna Netrebko, the company’s reigning diva. But in March, of course, just weeks before Netrebko was to return to the Met as Tosca, the company closed because of the pandemic. It has been shut for the past 11 months, canceling a slew of […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 7, 2021, 3:25 pm