On March 13th, Dean Thomas LaVeist’s quote in the prior day’s NYT was selected as the most poignant quote of the day. “Everyone is worn out. Everyone is exhausted. I am as well. But we lost 1,400 Americans yesterday to Covid and we’ll probably lost another 1,400 today. And I don’t think anything has happened that suggests to me that vaccine mandates and mask mandates should be lifted.”