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Nation
Shrugs over flu signal future attitudes about COVID
Even in the time of COVID-19, influenza, the other respiratory killer caused by a virus, is underestimated. Almost half of American adults don’t bother to get vaccinated against it, and despite the ongoing COVID experience, researchers and historians don’t expect Americans’ attitudes toward flu to change much. Those public perspectives are revelatory — and illustrate the paradoxical thinking about risks and diseases. Continue reading →
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World
Pope deplores the war in Ukraine but not the aggressor
Pope Francis avoided naming President Vladimir Putin of Russia, or even Russia itself, as the instigating, aggressive side of the war in Ukraine. While he has said that whoever justifies violence with religious motivations “profanes the name” of God, he has avoided criticism of the war’s chief religious backer and apologist, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. Continue reading →
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