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| In today's fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we've started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week's top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback. |
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| By David Mastio |
| "The idiotic part is that no resource, not even masks, is more vital to public health than the credibility of leaders who during a crisis need to ask people to do unpopular or uncomfortable things like get vaccinations that were fast-tracked through the review process. Fauci lost plenty of his credibility before COVID-19 was officially a pandemic." |
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| By Steven Petrow |
| "On Monday, the category for Final Jeopardy was U.S. museums. Schneider, who had racked up 38 consecutive wins by last week when she became tied for second to all-time champion Ken Jennings, looked comfortable as she jotted down her answer (in the form of a question, of course). Suddenly, the camera zoomed in on her. Did she have it? Nope, but it didn't matter because she had played another run-away game. And just like that, Schneider took over second place in all-time wins. Not only that, she's the first woman to win more than $1 million on the program, and the most successful transgender player ever. That's a really big deal – for Schneider, transgender people and the rest of us." |
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| By Dr. Marc Siegel |
| "I believe instead in tools that are effective in the real world, and this effectiveness decreases rather than increases fear. Rapid home testing, for example, could be useful not only to identify people for a brief period of infectious isolation, but also because knowing you have COVID-19 could lead me to intervene early, especially if you are at risk of a bad outcome. Tools such as monoclonal antibodies and now Pfizer's Paxlovid and Merck's Molnupiravir should be more widely available. If I had them, I could rush you to an infusion center for GSK's Sotrovimab, the monoclonal antibody with the most activity against the omicron variant." |
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| By Alexander Vindman |
| "As Vladimir Putin continues to amass troops on the border of Ukraine, there is a growing sense that the die has been cast, and that invasion is unavoidable. President Joe Biden, in a news conference last week, said, "My guess is he will move in. He has to do something." That may be true, but it does not mean we cannot further complicate Putin's calculus while we still have a chance. At minimum, doing so could delay an invasion, giving Ukraine more time to prepare." |
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| By James Davis |
| "Poor communication is a problem that has spanned both the Trump and Biden administrations, as well as authorities in red, blue and purple states. Public health officials went from "masks do not work for the general public" (former Surgeon General Jerome Adams) to "we have clear scientific evidence they (masks) work, and they are our best defense" (former CDC Director Robert Redfield) back to "a single-layer cloth mask just isn't cutting it" (Adams). This kind of shifting advice has made protecting public health and safety more difficult, leading people to turn to armchair immunologists for answers." |
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| By Christopher J. Schiller |
| "But there are trademark-like protections, such as the Lanham Act, that protect "reputation" in different ways. For example, if a certain company produces an ad that misrepresents what a competitor's product is or can do, that's a problem. If the references to the other company's product are more prominent in the ad, leading to confusion that a smaller company's product might be made by the more reputable company, that's another problem." |
 | | Andy Marlette/USA TODAY Network | | USA TODAY Network | |
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| By Mini Timmaraju |
| "It's clear that activists and politicians hostile to abortion believe it may be. Last year, anti-choice lawmakers waged an all-out assault on abortion access in an attempt to interfere in personal decisions about if, when and how people can start or grow their family. And soon, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative supermajority is expected to rule on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case out of Mississippi that directly challenges Roe and centers on a Mississippi law that attempts to ban abortion at 15 weeks." |
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| By Jill Lawrence |
| "I'll never be like my many friends who enjoy the exploits of the rich, cold, calculating and in some cases pure evil. Exhibit A: Over 10 seasons, I've watched every single "Call the Midwife" episode and Christmas special on PBS. It's not perfect. In fact, it's sometimes overly gynecological (how many graphic births does even this show need?), and while its nuns and civilian nurses are three-dimensional, it is saccharine in its portrayal of a Black couple, complete with a trite recurring musical theme." |
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| By Ashley McGuire |
| "The first March for Life, held the year after Roe v. Wade, drew about 20,000 people. Now the crowds are estimated to have grown at least tenfold. Every year the press dings the march by issuing some variation on the headline, "Thousands attend anti-abortion rally." But everyone knows the truth; the movement has ballooned, in size and savvy, in the decades that have passed since abortion became legal." |
 | | Andy Marlette, USA TODAY Network | | USA TODAY Network | |
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| By Carrie Lukas |
| "I sought to exercise my right as a parent under Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's Executive Order 2 by opting my two elementary school children out of their school system's mask mandate on Tuesday. I was told that if my children were unwilling to put on a mask, they were not allowed into the school building. My school district, Fairfax County Public Schools, is suing to derail the provision that would give parents like me the right to opt my children out of this requirement." |
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