The pandemic has forced Americans to wrestle with life-or-death choices every day of the past 18 months — and there’s no end in sight. Scientific understanding of the virus changes by the hour, it seems. The virus spreads only by close contact or on contaminated surfaces, then turns out to be airborne. In just the past week, federal health officials said they would begin offering booster shots to all Americans in the coming months. Some holdouts found it suspicious that the vaccine was not formally approved yet somehow widely dispensed.

Source: International New York Times August 23, 2021 00:48 UTC