Your weekend must reads📰
Good morning, Paste BN readers. I'm John Riley, and you've arrived at The Short List weekend edition✨, where we revisit some of the best stories of the week. It's our first edition of 2023🎉, so let's get going!
🏈Tragedy in the NFL: The sports world was rocked Monday night when the Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest in the first quarter of the game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Our columnists from across the network weighed in with eloquence and passion after the stunning incident.
- Mike Freeman: Tragic moment reminds us that NFL players are human
- Gregg Doyel: Don't let anti-vaxxers lie to you about Damar Hamlin
- Jarrett Bell: Nothing has prepared the Bills, NFL for this lingering trauma
🔵The war on 'woke': 'Woke' – a watchword long embraced by the Black community – has become a Republican culture-war rallying cry against progressive activism. Paste BN looked at the trend in two stories this week.
- 'Woke mind virus'?: Why red America has declared war on corporate America
- Targeting the military: Republicans attack the Defense Department for its 'woke' social policies
😷COVID turns three: On Dec. 31, 2019, China notified the World Health Organization of a novel pathogen in Wuhan. A day later, in that city of 12 million, a wet market selling live animals was shuttered out of fear it was the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.
Three years after the onset of COVID-19, Paste BN looked at the state of the pandemic, and at the threat of future pandemics.
- XBB.1.5: People who haven't had COVID will likely catch the newest variant – and many will get reinfected, experts say
- A more contagious variant: XBB.1.5 now accounts for over 40% of COVID cases
- Just the FAQs: Are vaccines holding up against the new COVID variant XBB.1.5? Here's what we know.
- The next pandemic: Experts worry if we'll be ready next time
Don't miss our other great reads below.👇 See you next week!