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Hannah Seidel-Nini ’26 Welcome to the Covid Column, let’s get crackin’! Vaccine Alert! The FDA Pfizer, which for 5 year olds and under, has officially applied for, this vaccine is estimated to be approved by the end of February! We’ve been through a lot of COVID variants in the time of the Pandemic, some of which have died out, but some of which have become the most known things around the world. These Variants are going to be the main topic of our article today. But first! A small announcement! Cloth masks don’t work well against Covid! The recommended mask is a KN95, but a medical mask will work as well. Make sure you are wearing one of these masks in order to protect yourself from germs! And now, back to COVID variants. The original virus, as everyone knows, is COVID-19, but since then we have had a DELTA variant,…

Current Event Corner #1 By Hannah Seidel-Nini ’26 Welcome to the Current Event Corner! This week we are covering a couple topics, including the Russia and Ukraine circumstance. But first, we are talking about Stephen Breyer, a supreme court judge, who is retiring in June, at the age of 83. In response to his announcement, Joe Biden came out with a statement, saying that he will nominate the first African-American woman after he retires. There are three top candidates for the position, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger, and J. Michelle Childs. Michele Childs seems to be a top contender among the people, and officials. Lindsey Graham, a Senator, came out with a quote; “I can’t think of a better person for President Biden to consider for the Supreme Court” The other topic we are going to cover is the current situation between Ukraine and Russia. As of now, Ukraine wants…

In November 2020 the US will hold their quadrennial elections. The outcome of this election is most likely to be Donald Trump as the winner, but this does not mean that we should not look into the other candidates and get our opinions out to our parents on who we would like to see in office.   Dallas Wolfson (‘24): “Biden. ’Cause he’s not Trump.”   Zack Platt (‘21): “Bloomberg. He’s the mayor of NY. He was just announced, he’s a billionaire, the best mayor New York has ever had. Second choice would be Biden but I wouldn’t vote for him in the primary. I love Andrew Yang, but he won’t win. He also only has a couple of things he’s running on, and not looking at the big picture for the country. I hate Elizabeth Warren, she’s terrible. She pretended to be Native American… she’s just kinda odd. Kamila…

  The arrival of “Star Wars Rise of Skywalker” has hyped up millions of fans across the globe. “Rise of Skywalker” is the last movie in the Star Wars saga.  The trailer was action packed and emotional, but enough of my talking, and let’s get to some interviews.    Aiden: “So I thought that the Star Wars trailer had a lot of battleships and space scenes which makes me think that there’s going to be a lot of battles and it’s not like the other Star Wars trailers where there are some happy moments in it and then it goes to cut straight to the battle. This Star Wars trailer was very different because it kept right to the chase and it just showed scenes of the battle the whole time and the battles of very intense and at the end the last part of the trailer we don’t know…