Emergency Youth Authorization

When I try to say the phrase Emergency Use Authorization, more often than not I trip and find myself uttering Emergency Youth Authorization instead. It happens so frequently that I have started to get in my own head about it, pausing before the three words come out of my mouth, only to hear what is now an inevitable use/youth swap. And then this morning, as I listened to a recent episode of The Daily (an excellent recap of where we are in the pandemic trajectory, by the way, which I highly recommend spending 25 minutes listening to), I heard coronavirus guru Donald G. McNeil Jr. and host Michael Barbaro do the same thing, not just once but over and over again. READ MORE