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By Eve Sneider | 02.14.22 | The FDA delays shots for kids, Canada reopens a key bridge, and cases rise in Hong Kong. Here's what you should know: |  Headlines The FDA will wait for more data before weighing shots for young kids (New York Times) The FDA announced Friday that it will postpone a meeting to determine whether to authorize two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine for children under five, reversing an earlier decision to preliminarily look at this option. Now, regulators are saying they will wait for data on whether three shots are effective before making a call on authorization. The drugmakers have said that they expect results from their three-dose trial for young children in early April. Key Canada border crossing reopens amid continued protests (Washington Post) On Sunday, Canada reopened the Ambassador Bridge, its busiest crossing point into the US. It had been closed for six days due to ongoing protests that began with truck drivers opposing vaccine mandates. The mayor of Ottawa also said on Sunday that he'd reached a tentative agreement with demonstrators to remove and limit vehicles in parts of the city. But protests continue across Canada and have spread as far as Europe and New Zealand, where officials recently tried to use sprinklers to disrupt the demonstrations. Hong Kong moves to contain outbreaks as cases soar (Reuters) Daily cases have surged over the last two weeks in Hong Kong, and its leader said today that the city is "overwhelmed," with hospitals short on beds as cases continue to rise. Like mainland China, Hong Kong has stuck to a "zero Covid" policy, trying to eliminate cases rather than learn to live with the disease. The city has banned most public gatherings, most people are working from home, and all schools have halted in-person classes until next month. Despite rising case counts, deaths have not risen at a comparable rate. | | In Steven Soderbergh's new film, Kimi, a content moderator hears a violent crime captured by a digital assistant. If that plot sounds straightforward enough, fear not: The movie is plenty strange, and that's what makes it fun. | | Two years into the pandemic, WIRED's Zak Jason came face-to-face with what he's calling The Great Smushing—every area of life, and every version of himself, collapsing into one jumbled, digitized mess. It's a condition that seems likely to persist beyond Covid-19. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to be done about it. | |
