Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas notched her second individual win Friday at the Ivy League championships, setting new pool and meet records in the process as she continues to inflame the debate over fairness and inclusion in women's sports.
On Thursday the day a vaccine inched closer to approval, the day the governor of Rhode Island extended the state’s “pause” another week, the day at least 11 more Rhode Islanders died after contracting COVID-19 a group of people got together in front of a white board by some cubicles.
Years ago this was a Citizens Bank call center in Cranston. Now it is a hospital. A field hospital, although that name doesn’t do it justice: There’s a hard roof, not green flaps. This is not M A S H. And the people who are making it work needed to go over some things Thursday morning, free from all the noise going on outside.