Showing results for: Coronavirus - Covid 19 (page 21)
Hugs are back! But do you even want one?
Nicole Karlis
People are excited to get close to loved ones, but are torn on embracing the casual social hug
Faith in numbers: Is church attendance linked to higher rates of coronavirus?
Ryan Burge
Church closures were among the most contested measures used to fight COVID-19
“Reckless” GOP Rep violated COVID rules, let son live in Capitol storage unit: lawsuit
Igor Derysh
Ex-staffer claims Doug Lamborn covered up COVID outbreak in his office, disregarded safety and ethics protocols
New York experiments with new voting system in chaotic mayoral race: Breakthrough or disaster?
Igor Derysh
Some fear the city's first ranked-choice voting race will result in confusion and disenfranchise Black voters
My family won’t get the vaccine because they say it hasn’t been “FDA approved”
Nicole Karlis
This week in Pandemic Problems, readers write in regarding families divided on vaccination opinions
Pooled testing gets smarter during the pandemic
Jeremy Hsu
Adding mathematics and AI to batch testing may lead to cheaper, faster tests, though not all experts are convinced
The COVID-19 vaccines will soon be available for children. Why did it take so long?
Nicole Karlis
Why did kids have to wait longer to get vaccinated? The answer relates to immunology and careful regulation
The “black fungus” that’s infecting COVID-19 patients in India, explained
Nicole Karlis
Doctors in India are seeing vast increases in cases of mucormycosis. Here's what we know
Trump spawned a new group of mega-donors who now hold sway over the GOP’s future
Isaac Arnsdorf
These powerful donors shied away from party politics before Trump. What brought them off the sidelines?
Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How Big Tech undermines California’s public health system
Angela Hart
Gov. Gavin Newsom has routinely outsourced life-or-death public health duties to his allies in the private sector
In hosting “Saturday Night Live” Elon Musk pulls the supervillain ploy of taking an audience hostage
Melanie McFarland
Musk's "SNL" gig isn't the end of it all, but it is another show helping him gloss over the ways he makes it worse
The airline industry says planes are pandemic-proof. Public health experts disagree
Matthew Rozsa
As ticket sales rise, researchers say they understand how to stop transmission on planes. Are airlines listening?
Fake news, conspiracy theories and a deadly global pandemic — and that was in 1918
Chauncey DeVega
John Barry, author of "The Great Influenza," urges caution in comparing that time to this. But we can't help it
Today’s Republicans are cartoon villains — who pose a dire threat to America’s health and safety
Chauncey DeVega
Republicans are behaving like sullen children with overly obvious evil plans. That makes them more dangerous
COVID “doesn’t discriminate by age”: serious cases on the rise in younger adults
Will Stone
Serious cases of covid-19 have grown in recent weeks in Americans 50 and younger
Do mRNA vaccines affect my DNA?
Nicole Karlis
In this week's Pandemic Problems column, a reader asks how to explain mRNA vaccines to a worried family member
Despite all the talk, COVID vaccination does not infect people with shingles
Julia Appleby
An online post claims the COVID-19 vaccines cause shingles or other dangerous skin conditions
“I don’t want to be L. Ron Hubbard”: Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book “Project Hail Mary”
Chauncey DeVega
"The Martian" author spoke to Salon about what inspired his new sci-fi novel, driving plots and scientific optimism
Many scientists think herd immunity may now be impossible in US. Here’s what that means
Matthew Rozsa
Without herd immunity, life will never quite return to a pre-pandemic "normal"
CVS and Walgreens have wasted more vaccine doses than most states combined
Joshua Eaton, Rachana Pradhan
The CDC recorded 182,874 wasted doses as of late March. Of those, CVS was responsible for nearly half
How the public misunderstands vaccine side effect statistics
David Robert Grimes
Rare side effects are undermining vaccine confidence. The problem lies in how we (mis)interprets the data
My husband refuses to get vaccinated
Nicole Karlis
This week in Pandemic Problems, a reader writes in frustrated that her husband is refusing the vaccine
Do kids really need to be vaccinated for COVID? Yes. no. maybe
Sara Talpos
Many experts argue that Covid-19 cannot be curbed without vaccinating children. But others aren’t so sure
Democratic insider David Rothkopf on Biden’s historic first 100 days — and the danger ahead
Chauncey DeVega
Author David Rothkopf on how Biden has succeeded so far, what lies ahead in 2022 and the danger of Trump's treason
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