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Extra, Extra: How Worried Should We Be About The COVID Variants?
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Extra, Extra: How Worried Should We Be About The COVID Variants?


John Del Signore
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Published Mar 7, 2021


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People wait on lines to get vaccinated as National Guard soldiers stand by at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan on Saturday, March 6th.
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Published Mar 7, 2021


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  • Restaurants in New York outside of NYC will be allowed to serve indoor diners at 75% capacity, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday. NYC indoor dining will remain at 35%.
  • Here's a helpful pie chart explaining the American Rescue Plan that Senate Democrats passed on Saturday.
  • Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall is facing a backlash after tweeting praise for a book by right-wing troll Andy Ngo.
  • Police arrested two homeless men suspected of killing a homeless teenage girl in an encampment within the abandoned Manhattan Fulton Fish Market.
  • NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wants Biden to solve America's public restroom problem.
  • The New Yorker considers how worried we should be about the COVID-19 variants prolonging the pandemic: "The fact that different variants have independently hit on the same mutations suggests we’re already seeing the limits of where the virus can go," one biologist explains.
  • On this day one year ago, then-president Donald Trump explained how great he was at understanding the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • This week's weather forecast is looking pretty, pretty good.
  • Hey here's a pretty friendly cardinal up close and personal:

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John Del Signore

Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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