EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Ray Fisher, Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Michael Potts in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Potts in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Manhattan, Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialSilver Crown (Crown of the Holy Ghost). Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 13"high.. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.
EditorialSamuel L. Jackson, left, and John David Washington in August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Michael Potts, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Manhattan, Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialThe actor and director LaTanya Richardson Jackson at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York on Sept. 29, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer administers the new covid booster shot for Ethel Brown at Riverdale nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer administers the new covid booster shot for Ethel Brown at Riverdale nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialAlice Feiring, left, at a farmer’s market with her boyfriend Peter Zanger and mother Ethel Feiring, in Kings Point, N.Y., July 17, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialEthel Stamper, 94, and her daughter-in-law Shirley Stamper rest as they wait for Ethel’s blood pressure and diabetes medications at Gospel Light Baptist Church in Hazard, Ky., July 29, 2022. (Austin Anthony/The New York Times)