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Vaccine Mandate Unleashes a Mob in a Small Polish Town
The mayor of a former mining community in Poland received death threats and was compared to a Nazi death camp doctor after trying to make coronavirus shots obligatory for adults.
City Hall in Walbrzych. The mayor, Dr. Roman Szelemej, said that his attempt to mandate inoculations had “made this small point on the map of Poland a place for all the skeptics of science and reality to focus on.”Credit.Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times
May 27, 2021, 10:47 a.m. ET
WALBRZYCH, Poland The mayor, a heart surgeon, had just finished overnight hospital duty when he received alarming news: a mob of protesters, some dressed in military camouflage, had gathered outside his home, screaming abuse through bullhorns and waving banners comparing him to Josef Mengele, the Nazi death camp physician.
A Massacre in a Forest Becomes a Test of Polandâs Pushback on Wartime Blame
Two researchers are on trial for writing that a Polish mayor was complicit in a massacre. Critics say the government is trying to emphasize Polish suffering in World War II and downplay complicity in Nazi crimes.
âThe war ended 75 years ago, but it still lives on in our bones. It will last forever,â Zygmunt Malinowski recalled last week during a visit to the forest memorial stone, right, where Jews were killed in the early 1940s.Credit.Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times
Feb. 8, 2021
MALINOWO, Poland â From a forest on the edge of this tiny village in eastern Poland, a distant and mostly forgotten local horror is reverberating widely. It has cast a pall over the 30 villagers who live nearby, reached into a courtroom in Warsaw, and is now radiating distress around the world over the rewriting of Holocaust history.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Officials Confront U.S. Vaccination Woes
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The president of Mexico has the coronavirus. Travel from South Africa to the U.S. will be barred.
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Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, spoke in Wilmington, Del., last month.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Four Biden officials tried on Sunday to manage public expectations about vaccine distribution, as frustration grows among Americans over long lines, canceled appointments and other daunting issues.
The officials also tried to smooth over confusion about President Biden’s goal of 100 million shots in the first 100 days of his administration. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, called the figure “a floor, not a ceiling,” on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”