The city reversed a decision to end the skating season abruptly. Officials have canceled contracts with the former president’s business to operate the two rinks.
Health workers are still being forced to ration protective masks, but small U.S. manufacturers can’t find buyers, and some are in a danger of going under.
Pfizerâs efforts to capitalize on the discovery were for weeks camouflaged in a bureaucratic language dispute. Before Christmas, Pfizer approached F.D.A. officials requesting a formal change to its fact sheet so that it said each vial contained six doses of vaccine instead of five. But regulators instead suggested the phrase âup to six doses,â depending on what kinds of needles and syringes were used to extract the vaccine.
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Vials of Pfizerâs vaccine retrieved from a freezer at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia during the first week of vaccinations in December.Credit.Hannah Yoon for The New York Times
Biden Signs Orders to Expand Food Stamps and Raise Wages, but Says Economy Needs More Help
The president called it an “economic imperative” to provide more aid for millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet as the virus exacts a bruising toll.
President Biden signed two executive orders on Friday aimed at providing economic relief to the unemployed and others suffering during the pandemic.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Jan. 22, 2021
WASHINGTON President Biden signed two executive orders on Friday to provide help to struggling families and raise wages for certain workers, turning once again to the power of the executive branch to advance his economic goals as the legislative chances for his broader stimulus package remain uncertain.
âUnacceptableâ Food Packages for Poorer Children in England Prompt Outcry
Photos of the packages, which critics called meager and overpriced, circulated widely on social media, prompting the government to reinstate vouchers for parents to buy food, themselves.
Delivering food parcels to a family in Milton Keynes, Britain, last week.Credit.Andrew Boyers/Reuters
Jan. 13, 2021
LONDON â The food package, spread out on a carpet, included a can of beans, an assortment of fruit, vegetables, snacks, and sliced bread and cheese â provisions from a government program that provides low-income students with free lunches.
But when pictures of the packages, delivered to students at home as lockdowns have shuttered schools across England, circulated on social media this week, they were roundly condemned by parents and anti-hunger activists like the soccer star Marcus Rashford.