Maybe more than you think.
This week, as coronavirus cases in the United States set records, Pfizer announced that its vaccine candidate was more than 90 percent effective. While that’s welcome news, Aaron E. Carroll and Nicholas Bagley caution that winter is coming — and we must remain vigilant. And, as Arthur Allen points out, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the vaccine. |
What is patently clear, however, is that the virus will continue to affect our lives — and our work — until the pandemic ends. Women’s work has already been disproportionately impacted. “If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that what has traditionally been women’s work — caring, cleaning, the provision of food — can no longer be taken for granted,” because this is precisely what we have come to rely on most during the pandemic, Anna Louie Sussman writes. In her essay, Anna explains how New Zealand is fighting for an alternative approach to closing the gender pay gap by carefully considering how much work is really worth. If successful, it will prove that this seemingly intractable problem can be solved — if we have the will. |
‘There Is a Real Opportunity Here That I Think Biden Is Capturing’ |
 | | Marly Gallardo |
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In the run-up to the election, the planet warmed, wildfires burned. Climate change was at least partly in the hands of a president who has called it a hoax. But President-elect Joe Biden could change all that. And that’s just as well, because when it comes to the destruction the planet could face, “the sum total of the evidence is clear — and terrifying.” |
 | | Angie Wang |
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Aubrey Gordon distinctly remembers the first time she was told she was overweight. “I learned so much in that one moment: You’re not beautiful. You’re indulging too much. Your body is wrong. You must have done it. I’d failed a test I didn’t even know I’d taken,” she writes. |
The Coronavirus Saved My Life |
 | | Benedikt Luft |
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“My 22-year-old child and I were on our way home when the car broke down,” writes Annabelle Gurwitch. “My phone rang as we waited for a tow on a dusty shoulder of the freeway. ‘I’m so sorry.’ It was the urgent care doctor. ‘I told you that your X-ray was fine, but I read the wrong scan. You have a concerning mass on your lung.’” |
Mold, Possums and Pools of Sewage: No One Should Have to Live Like This |
 | | Katherine Lam |
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Pamela Rush opened her home so the people of America could see what poverty really looked like. “The toilet paper and feces told a story of the lost American dream much more clearly than Pam ever could.” |
 | | Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla led the country’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people.Horacio Villalobos/Corbis, via Getty Images |
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“The red-paint filled balloon means this house is stained with blood.” When Argentines realized those accused of crimes against humanity weren’t being prosecuted, they sought another route: public shaming. |
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