“Many families will soon face a complicated choice about how quickly to resume their pre-pandemic activities,” writes @DLeonhardt. “The answers will not be easy.”
What can you do when adults are vaccinated and kids are not? nyti.ms/3guJB5z
For adults, Covid-19 has exacted a brutal toll, one large enough to warrant the shutdown of much of daily life. The disease has killed about 16 times more Americans than the flu would in a typical year. nyti.ms/3guJB5z
In the U.S., Covid is among the top five causes of death among adults. Among kids, however, it ranks 10th.
“I worked with experts and colleagues to compile data comparing Covid-19 to influenza in recent years,” writes @DLeonhardt. “The flu can be deadlier for children than Covid has been.” nyti.ms/3guJB5z
For adults, however, Covid-19 turned out to be way more deadly than the flu. Among people 65 and over, the disease has killed more than 2 percent of those who contracted it. nyti.ms/3guJB5z
“I can accept the risks of my kids getting Covid, in part because I compare it to the risk of them getting other infectious diseases and the risk seems very, very small,” @JenniferNuzzo told @DLeonhardt. Read more: nyti.ms/3guJB5z
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Soon, virtually all adults who want to get vaccinated will have been able to get a shot. But children will need to wait longer.
What does that mean for family activities, vacations and daily life? @DLeonhardt takes a look at the risks and options. nyti.ms/2QMcwr9
There is no risk-free option available to parents in the coming months.
Children cannot be vaccinated yet. Yet keeping them at home — away from their friends, activities, schools and extended family — can harm them, as multiple studies have suggested. nyti.ms/2QMcwr9
Covid-19 has killed about 16 times more Americans than the flu would in a typical year. nyti.ms/2QMcwr9
In Sunday Review, a look at the state where George Floyd and Daunte Wright were killed.
"While Minnesota is a great place to live for white people, for Black people, it’s just like everywhere else — and sometimes worse," writes scholar Samuel L. Myers Jr. nyti.ms/3dqUPpM
“My great-grandparents joined in the great migration to land in Minneapolis, and over the years we’ve all seen how our neighbors choose to ignore the suffering of those of us who don’t look like them,” writes @JustinNXT. nyti.ms/3mSvsAp
"Minnesota has had a rude awakening to the fact that it is not above the fray," writes David Lawrence Grant. nyti.ms/32m8LuW
"Americans expect to pay property taxes at the same rates as their neighbors. But across most of the United States, flat-rate property taxation is a sham," writes the editorial board. nyti.ms/3wt2hZ9
"Local governments are failing at the basic task of accurately assessing property values, and there is a clear and striking pattern: More expensive properties are undervalued, while less expensive properties are overvalued." nyti.ms/3wt2hZ9
Inequities in tax assessments are both very large and very common.
How bad is it where you live? You can look up your county to see: nyti.ms/3wt2hZ9
“Logistical hurdles and missteps could drive slower vaccination campaigns. But states may also be falling behind because of high levels of vaccine hesitancy,” writes @Nat_Lash. nyti.ms/2P9DisU
We can look at the vaccine rollouts in Idaho, Florida and other states to see who has been vaccinated, how quickly and why.
They show why we are headed for pockets of herd immunity (oases) and swaths with low vaccination rates (deserts). nyti.ms/2P9DisU
In Florida, wealthier counties achieving much higher vaccination rates than lower-income counties.
Almost all seniors in wealthy St. Johns have been vaccinated. But in nearby Putnam, one of the state’s poorest counties, only half are. nyti.ms/2P9DisU
Writer @mayjeong on the Asian women killed in the rampage near Atlanta this week: "As working women of color, they existed at the terrible nexus of race, gender and class." nyti.ms/3vHc0uk
"For now, we do not know whether the massage parlor workers who were killed would have considered themselves sex workers, and we may never know." nyti.ms/3vHc0uk
"The stereotype of the Asian woman as simultaneously hypersexualized and submissive is borne of centuries of Western imperialism." nyti.ms/3vHc0uk
This week marks a year since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Today, we're publishing "The Week Our Reality Broke," a series looking back at what we've lost, and what we've gained. nyti.ms/2PVNkOn
It’s understandable to miss pre-pandemic life, but “your nostalgia for the Before Times is in part a barometer of how well they were serving you, how much you’ve been able to ignore the sirens that have been blaring the whole time,” writes @lsjamison. nyti.ms/30EdGq1
Mutual aid kept communities going. “This summer, we saw thousands of our neighbors recognize the urgency of embracing mutualism over individualism,” write four mutual aid organizers and writers in Chicago. nyti.ms/3bziZ0g