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With nursing home staff lagging on booster shot uptake, experts fear new outbreaks among seniors
Eric Schank
One out of seven US COVID-19 deaths has been residents in nursing homes, research has shown
DOJ implements new methods for hate crime reporting
Meaghan Ellis
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a $10 million grant to increase measures for hate crime reporting
Why you have a headache right now — and the surprising way you can prevent the next one
Mary Elizabeth Williams
On average, 16% of people had a pounding headache today. Could the treatment be causing the pain?
Behind the mask: How racism shaped attitudes on the pandemic
Chauncey DeVega
White people began believing COVID wasn't their problem, research shows — and that made the pandemic much worse
The unsettling reason that climate change could lead to more pandemics
Matthew Rozsa
As the climate changes, wild animals and humans are apt to cross paths more often — opening the door for disease
Yes, the economy is slowing — but 2021 was the hottest year since 1984. Who gained the most?
D. Brian Blank
Everyone in America gained from the trillions spent on pandemic relief — but billionaires did best of all
New emails: Trump officials overruled CDC on church COVID rules despite fears of mass outbreaks
Timothy Evans
Trump officials called recommendations to hold virtual services "problematic" and scrubbed all mentions
White House expands access to life-saving COVID-19 drug Paxlovid
Eric Schank
As VP Harris takes Paxlovid after her COVID-19 diagnosis, the White House is making the drug easier to access
Parents’ frustration mounts as COVID vaccine for children under five is held back a little longer
Nicole Karlis
The issue isn't around safety, but instead messaging and vaccine effectiveness
Rollout of new effective COVID pill mirrors the “injustice of vaccine apartheid” in poor countries
Kenny Stancil
"Do not let history repeat itself," advocates warn as low-income countries lack access to Pfizer treatment
Public health experts are split on whether we still need masks on airplanes
Nicole Karlis
The decision to overturn the mask mandate on airplanes "will not worsen the pandemic," one expert tells Salon
Trump-appointed judge striking down CDC’s mask mandate is “an assault on public health,” says expert
Nicole Karlis
A federal judge in Florida ruled that the CDC only had authority to issue regulations related to "sanitation"
Could the Zika virus cause another pandemic? Yes — but it wouldn’t be anything like COVID
Matthew Rozsa
Scientists watched how Zika evolved as it passed through different hosts — and left feeling concerned
Super-contagious COVID variant XE has a key deficiency that could be our saving grace
Nicole Karlis
XE may be more contagious than BA.2 — but its spike protein isn't different. Here's why that's a good thing
Jimmy Kimmel compares Tucker Carlson to “prostitutes,” accuses him of lying about vaccine status
Jon Skolnik
"This is like selling Girl Scout cookies outside a diabetes clinic"
The ubiquity of at-home testing could make the next COVID-19 wave “invisible”
Nicole Karlis
More people may have COVID than official counts suggest. But there's an easy way to figure out if there's a surge
Earth’s oceans are teeming with mysterious viruses, new study finds
Matthew Rozsa
Scientists find thousands of newly-discovered RNA viruses swarming our oceans
The end of the COVID emergency could mean a huge loss of health insurance
Elisabeth Rosenthal
The United States might see one of the steepest increases in the country’s uninsured rate in years
The Mount Everest mystery deepens: Was there an international cover-up of a dead climber’s ascent?
Mark Synnott
Mark Synnott climbed Earth's highest peak to solve a mystery, but found another upon returning. Read the postscript
After the pandemic ends, “pathological” health anxiety will persist for years, experts say
Matthew Rozsa
Crippling health anxiety could "interfere substantially" in our lives — even long after the threat of COVID is gone
The worrying murkiness of institutional biosafety committees
Michael Schulson
Experts say IBCs are a crucial tool for ensuring the safety of biomedical research. Critics say they are too opaque
Sinema throws cold water on Manchin’s revised Build Back Better proposal in private donor meeting
Alex Henderson
Sinema, who opposes rolling back the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy, says a slimmed-down bill is "unlikely"
Mitch holds COVID aid “hostage” as free care ends to prevent Biden from ending Trump’s border policy
Jake Johnson
Democrats called out Republicans for holding much-need pandemic funds "hostage for an extraneous issue"
Bernie Sanders praises growing union movement as top threat to “oligarchy and corporate greed”
Jake Johnson
If you think union wins at Amazon and Starbucks are an "aberration," you would be "sorely mistaken," Sanders says
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