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Image A health care worker prepares to administer the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Miami last month.Credit.Saul Martinez for The New York Times To the Editor: While many in the United States are choosing to reject or defer vaccination, U.S. citizens living overseas are desperately waiting to be included in President Biden’s promise to vaccinate all Americans. We need no special inducements. Many Americans live in countries where infections are rapidly escalating and no F.D.A.-approved vaccines are available, or where local governments prioritize their own citizens. My husband, now 86, has underlying health conditions. Following a recent accident he can hardly walk. Flying to the United States for vaccination is not an option, even if the cost were not already prohibitive for a retiree living on Social Security. ....
Font Size Almost a week after the CDC’s new, looser guidance on mask-wearing, The New York Times still hasn’t recovered from this loss of governmental control over its citizens. On Wednesday, reporters Julie Bosman and Sarah Mervosh channeled the paper’s liberal precaution: “Under New Honor System on Masks, Americans Ask, ‘Am I to Trust These People?’” “These People?” Such ethnocentrism was shocking to read in a Times headline. The text box relayed: “Guidance from the C.D.C. is greeted with skepticism.” Whatever happened to science-embracing Democrats? The panic came right from the get-go, seeking to put the burden back on the vaccinated: ....