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Make no mistake, we are still waist-deep in the COVID fever swamp. Most of the country still has not been vaccinated. More than 2,000 Americans a day are still dying of the virus. For the next half-year at least, we re still going to have to mask or better yet, double-mask keep our distance, avoid gatherings, keep to our own homes as much as possible.
But vaccines are out there. More vaccines are coming. The rate of new U.S. infections is declining: from a peak of 248,321 on Jan. 6 to 54,950 on Feb. 22, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By the winter holidays if the fates allow we could be very nearly back to what we call normal.
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In the predawn hours, Morristown was unusually quiet on Monday, except for the howl of blowing snow and roar of distant snowplows. Ghost-like figures wandered through the blizzard, shovels in hand.
In Madison, teacher Sylvia McTague enjoyed a rare snow day with her daughter Emma, who was home from college. Too many drivers in Sussex County weren t as lucky the tractor-trailers and cars stalled on snowy hills attested to that.
In Passaic, public works employee Kassim Washington lamented the Sisyphean task of trying to plow out the city s central business district as flakes tumbled down at more than an inch an hour.
Calls for the removal of President Donald Trump have grown louder in the days since a pro-Trump mob descended on the Capitol, resulting in violent chaos that left five dead. But as House Democrats are expected to bring articles of impeachment against Trump as early as today, the deeply divided country still views basic facts about the riot differently.
While some of the president s supporters interviewed over the past several days said they were left shaken by the attack on the Capitol, others said they don t believe Trump supporters were involved in the rioting and that the president was not to blame for inciting the violence.