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Dr. Leana Wen is in favor of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. "I don't think that people should have the choice to infect others with a potentially fatal and extremely contagious virus," she says. Wen is pictured above in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Aug. 14, 2012. Steven Senne/AP hide caption
Think Of Your COVID-19 Vaccine Like A Very Good Raincoat, Says Dr. Leana Wen
Actress and author Emilia Clarke. Robert Ascroft/Narrative PR hide caption
Emilia Clarke On Mothers Of Madness And Dragons
Like last year, the sidewalks around San Diego's convention center are empty and no one is lined up at the famed Hall H. Daniel Knighton/Getty Images hide caption
Author Sarah Ramey's first book was expected to be among 2020's bestsellers. But it was released the same week as the lockdown and got lost amid news of a global catastrophe. Julius Schlosburg hide caption
When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors Talk About Terrible Timing
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Words To Set You Free
A member of the protest group Hot Mess holds up a sign of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in July 2019. Epstein died by asphyxiation in his cell a month later. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images hide caption
Everyone Heard About Jeffrey Epstein's Enablers. Few Listened To His Victims
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, Michael Wolff Henry Holt & Co. hide caption
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley MCD hide caption
Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance, by Nisha Sharma Crown Books for Young Readers hide caption
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers Tordotcom hide caption
Intense physical activity may not be as helpful in losing weight as you may hope. Catherine Falls/Getty Images hide caption