The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China s central Hubei province. Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden told the country that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors or outdoors, calling it a “great day.” The federal government’s new policy, along with falling case counts and increasing vaccination numbers, was another sign that the crisis phase of the pandemic in the United States at least was drawing to a close. On the same day that Biden looked toward the pandemic’s end, a group of 18 prominent scientists looked, figuratively, in the opposite direction, toward how it all began. In a letter in
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
On May 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (“DC Court”) vacated a nationwide eviction moratorium order issued by the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in
Alabama Association of Realtors, et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
1 (the “Decision”). The DC Court found that the CDC exceeded its authority in issuing such moratorium on nationwide evictions of rental properties and that the CDC Order should be set aside. The Decision was immediately appealed by the Justice Department on behalf of the CDC and the ruling has been stayed pending such appeal.
A sign put up on Staller steps in order to warn students to wear masks and to remain six feet apart in the fall 2020 semester. 2020 was the deadliest year in United States’ history.
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Benjamin Joffe is a freshman political science major.
It isn’t a stretch to say that 2020 was one of the most challenging and confusing years of our lives. In fact, it was the deadliest year in the United States’ history.
With all that has happened in 2020, it is easy to overlook some incredibly valuable lessons we can take away from both our collective and individual experiences. We must understand how challenges that may seem independent from one another are connected.
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