Tommy Lasorda’s body began to fail him in recent months, but his passion for the Dodgers never wavered. The man who always claimed he bled Dodger blue out of loyalty to the organization had one last mission to accomplish, one more triumphant moment to experience.
He was granted that moment in October, when the Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series their first championship since he guided them to the title in 1988. “He willed himself to live this long and to watch that world championship,” former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser said. “He willed himself to stay active with baseball and to be impactful on a daily basis.
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It was a small but telling illustration of the gap between public expectations of the eagerly-anticipated new COVID-19 vaccines and the long, unpredictable road still ahead.
On Wednesday, federal acting Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, revealed that an “old friend” had emailed to see if his daughter, working in intensive care in Britain, might be allowed to return to Australia without quarantine because she’d received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioBTech vaccine – which British authorities had started rolling out only days before. An “interesting” proposition, Kelly said tactfully.
Get that jab: Healthcare workers wait to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at UCI Medical Centre in California on Wednesday.
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It was a small but telling illustration of the gap between public expectations of the eagerly-anticipated new COVID-19 vaccines and the long, unpredictable road still ahead.
On Wednesday, federal acting Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, revealed that an “old friend” had emailed to see if his daughter, working in intensive care in Britain, might be allowed to return to Australia without quarantine because she’d received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioBTech vaccine – which British authorities had started rolling out only days before. An “interesting” proposition, Kelly said tactfully.
Get that jab: Healthcare workers wait to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at UCI Medical Centre in California on Wednesday.
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