Coronavirus Today: Our final edition
LA TimesI’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, March 28. The case now returns to the lower court, where “both sides will have to grapple with the White House’s announcement that the COVID emergency will finally end on May 11, 2023,” the ruling said. Thomas Groome, a professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, said in-person attendance will “probably never come back to where it was before the pandemic,” but that’s not necessarily a cause for concern. The researchers also identified another protective factor: high levels of “interpersonal trust.” “How we feel about one another matters,” said political scientist Thomas J. Bollyke, one of the study’s lead authors. “The solidarity between people — the feeling that others will also do the right thing, that you’re not being taking advantage of — is a big driver in your willingness to adopt protective behaviors.” It’s another way of saying America’s growing divisiveness hasn’t served us well during the pandemic.