Your Questions Answered: How To Navigate Changing Relationships In The Pandemic

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

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The U.S. officially began vaccinating people against COVID-19 on Monday, starting with Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in New York City. The first vaccination came the same day that the country hit another grim milestone of 300,000 dead from the disease.

Though vaccinations have begun, the pandemic is still raging and affecting people in all kinds of ways, including their relationships with partners, family and friends.

We asked you to share your questions with us on how to navigate those changing relationships. To help answer those questions, we're joined by Dr. Lexx Brown-James, a marriage and family therapist and sexologist based in St. Louis, and NPR's Cory Turner, who covers parenting and education.

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0:00.0	It finally happened.
0:06.0	On Monday morning, ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the US to get a coronavirus vaccine.
0:16.0	Sandra, you didn't... you didn't...
0:19.0	Blackench, I take it that Dr. Jester has a good touch.
0:23.0	She has a good touch and it didn't feel any different from taking any other vaccine.
0:29.0	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called into the event, which took place at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens.
0:35.0	That's where Lindsay works.
0:37.0	I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history.
0:43.0	Today's just such a historic day as we hopefully see the light at the end of the tunnel of this horrible pandemic and the...
0:50.0	Speaking to NBC's Today Show, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, said the US should be able to vaccinate 20 million people.
0:58.0	Most of them frontline healthcare workers by the end of the year and a total of 50 million by the end of January.
1:05.0	When is it going to be like the flu shot where you could go into your pharmacy and get the shot anytime you want it?
1:11.0	How soon is that moment going to happen? Do you think summer late fall?
1:15.0	No, no. I think we could be seeing that by late February going into March.
1:21.0	Consider this, even as the US death toll passes 300,000, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
1:30.0	But we're not through it yet, and this time is affecting us in all kinds of ways, including in our relationships with partners, friends, and family.
1:38.0	Coming up, we'll go over your questions about how to navigate those changing relationships.
1:43.0	From NPR, I'm Audit Cornish. It's Monday, December 14th.
1:50.0	Today, some people argue that the Supreme Court has more power than all other branches of government.
1:57.0	But when and how did the Supreme Court end up getting the final say?
2:01.0	How the court became more powerful than anything the framers could have imagined.
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