“It’s essentially engineered scarcity,” Jonathan Whittall, interim head in Gaza of the U.N. humanitarian office, said last week.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was a longtimeactivist, said this week that the shots are
for healthy children and pregnant women, usurping a decision normally made by scientific experts,Days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said healthy children and pregnant women “may” get COVID-19 vaccinations,that those groups “should” get the shots.
The change follows an earlier Trump administration step toamong healthy people under age 65.
Until now, the U.S. — following guidance from independent experts who advise the CDC — has recommended yearly COVID-19 vaccinations for everyone age 6 months and older.
Together, the moves have left health experts, vaccine makers and insurers uncertain about what to advise and what comes next.If Cera’s role in “The Phoenician Scheme” feels like a long time coming, it is. He and Anderson first met more than 15 years ago. Cera, 36, was then coming off his early breakthroughs in “Arrested Development,” “Superbad” and “Juno.” A comic wunderkind from Ontario who stood out even among the “Arrested Development” cast as a teenager, Cera had caught Anderson’s attention.
“It was something arranged by an agent in New York and we went to a kind of cocktail party,” Anderson recalls by phone. “We were with Harvey Keitel, too. So it was me and Harvey and Michael Cera — a totally unexpected combination. But I loved him. For years I’ve kind of felt like: Why haven’t we already done something together?”For Cera, the meeting was even more memorable.
“I remember being very excited to meet him,” Cera says. “I remember him being very disarming. Obviously, he was like a luminary inspiration. He has had a huge impact on my general sense of taste. I discovered his movies when I was a teenager and watched them over and over.”They nearly did come together on a movie before “The Phoenician Scheme.” Anderson had a small role for Cera in