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FROM Sydney Spiesel
Should Doctors Treat Unvaccinated Kids? California officials report that there have been 32 confirmed cases of measles in the state so far this year - ten of them in LA County. Last year there were only three cases reported in California by mid-March. Nearly half of the infected people belong to families who intentionally opted out of vaccinations. We talk with a pediatrician who’s struggling with whether he should treat kids whose parents opted out of vaccinations.
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George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."