Early Addition: Frustrated Wells Fargo, Chase Customers Still Waiting For Stimulus Deposit
March 16, 2021, 10:27 a.m.
Because we really need this money, here are your early links: second-dose heroes, reparations from the Jesuits, learning to love laundry, and when can we make out with strangers again?
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- Early but promising CDC data indicates that 9 in 10 Americans who got a first COVID-19 vaccine dose followed up for their second shot on schedule.
- The Jesuits are raising $100 million to pay reparations to Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved by the Catholic Church.
- Doctors told NPR that alcoholic liver disease has been skyrocketing among younger women during the pandemic.
- Wells Fargo and Chase customers are miffed that their stimulus checks haven't showed up in their bank accounts yet.
- 99-year-old Prince Philip is back home at Windsor Castle after a 28-day hospital stay for heart surgery.
- Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, the infamous "Amityville Horror" murderer, died in prison last Friday, so the Post published a slideshow of some recent images of the Long Island home where the murders took place, and it appears to have a very nice boat slip.
- Indoor diners may be The Worst, but the government's refusal to protect restaurant workers was really The Worst.
- Author and Discovery+ host Patric Richardson is excited to help America fall in love with doing laundry.
- "I just want to take a bong rip of someone’s breath": Can we start touching each other already?!
- Done with winter:
Just a cat sunbathing pic.twitter.com/BuPOPpJqfZ
— ʚ kimi ɞ (@piinkimi) March 15, 2021