EditorialVice President Kamala Harris, right, elbow bumps CIA Director William Burns, during a ceremonial swearing in of the director in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds in Washington on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. At center is Burns' wife Lisa Carty. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
EditorialGov. Gavin Newsom elbow bumps Eddie Ahn after speaking at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, March 19, 2021. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialUS Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and US Senate Rules and Administration joint hearing to examine the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol
EditorialJennifer Granholm elbow bumps Vice President Kamala Harris, after being sworn in as the secretary at the vice president's ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, as Granholm's husband Dan Mulhern looks on. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialUS Senate Committee on Finance hearing to Consider the Nomination of Xavier Becerra, of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services
EditorialUS Senate Committee on Finance Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Adewale O. Adeyemo, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
EditorialNeera Tanden, President Joe Biden's nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, greets Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) with an elbow bump, as she prepares to testify at her confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialVice President Kamala Harris elbow bumps Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a ceremonial swearing in ceremony for Austin in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 25, 2021. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialVice President Kamala Harris elbow bumps Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a ceremonial swearing in ceremony for Austin in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialVice President Mike Pence elbow bumps with a member of the National Guard as he speaks to troops outside the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (Alex Brandon/Pool via The New York Times)
EditorialVice President Mike Pence elbow bumps Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, after Pence received a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the White House in Washington on Friday, Dec, 18, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialMount Sinai hospital president David Reich elbow bumps nurse practitioner Petrona Ennis-Welch who was the first COVID-19 vaccine recipient at the hospital in New York on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 15, 2020. (Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)