December 15, 2021 - Page 2

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 14: Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. The rollout of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, the first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, ushers in the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history. (Photo by Mark Lennihan - Pool/Getty Images)

One Year of Covid Vaccines: Global Impact by the Numbers

By Faith Karimi and Deidre McPhillips, On December 14, 2020, nurse Sandra Lindsay rolled up her left sleeve at a New York City hospital and became one of the first people in the US to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The vaccine was from Pfizer/BioNTech, and it had been authorized for emergency use only three days earlier by the FDA

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Biden’s Democracy Summit Highlights Voting Rights Crisis

By Fredreka Schouten, President Joe Biden kicked off the inaugural White House “Summit for Democracy” on Thursday by sounding alarms about challenges to democracy around the globe as authoritarian governments gain ground. But advocates say much more work is needed at home to shore up America’s democracy, nearly a year after a violent attack on the US

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