Holiday travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Dec. 23.Credit.Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Sunday was the busiest day for U.S. airports since mid-March, underscoring concerns that a spike in holiday travel may contribute to the spread of the coronavirus, even as new cases remain alarmingly high and officials plead with Americans to avoid taking unnecessary risks.
The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 1.3 million people on Sunday, the most since March 15, when airline passenger numbers were in free-fall as the pandemic began to take hold within the United States.
Since then, the number of travelers screened at airports has exceeded one million fewer than a dozen times, including around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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U.S. Starts Vaccine Rollout as High-Risk Health Care Workers Go First
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The first shots were given as the U.S. surpassed 300,000 virus-related deaths. Vaccinations also began in Canada.
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Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester in Queens on Monday.Credit.Pool photo by Mark Lennihan
The first shots were given in the American mass vaccination campaign on Monday, opening a new chapter in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more people in the United States over 300,000 than in any other country and has taken a particularly devastating toll on people of color.
Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred today, December 14, 2020.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
As Toll Nears 300,000, First Doses of Vaccine Race Across the Nation
(from the original by Jack Healy, Amy Harmon and Simon Romero)
trying to turn the tide
packed in dry ice
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