DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-09-27 Is Covid āUnder Controlā in the US? Experts Say Yes Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact and Jeff Cercone, PolitiFact Promise: āIām never going to raise the white flag and surrender. Weāre going to beat this virus. Weāre going to get it under control, I promise you.ā President Joe Biden caused a stir in a […]
2022-06-13 In Remote Ecuador, Pandemic Health Care Is Stretched Thin Ā by Kata Karath Name Karen Topa Pila looks around the windowless reception area in the small health care station of Hoja Blanca, Ecuador, its pale yellow walls stained with patches of mold. “When did the electricity go out last night?” Topa Pila, a […]
2022-05-21 This Rural, Red Southern County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore. Brett Kelman May 19, 2022 MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. ā At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place. A small county northeast of Chattanooga, along the twisting banks of Chickamauga Lake, for much […]
2022-04-20 Better Ventilation Can Prevent Covid Spread. But Are Companies Paying Attention? Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Americans are abandoning their masks. Theyāre done with physical distancing. And, letās face it, some people are just never going to get vaccinated. Yet a lot can still be done to prevent covid infections and curb […]
2022-04-17 How the Test-to-Treat Pillar of the US Covid Strategy Is Failing Patients Hannah Recht The federal ātest-to-treatā program, announced in March, is meant to reduce covid hospitalizations and deaths by quickly getting antiviral pills to people who test positive. But even as cases rise again, many Americans donāt have access to the […]
2022-04-07 Losing Sleep Over the Pandemic? Work Flexibility May Be a Boon for Night Owlsā Health Krishna Sharma Many so-called night people feel that, when it comes to societyās expectations about when the workday should start, they drew the short straw. Research shows that ānight owlsā are hard-wired to sleep later, yet 9-to-5 […]
What is the new COVID-19 variant BA.2, and will it cause another wave of infections in theĀ US? BA.2, one of three main omicron sublineages, is sweeping the world. BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty Images Plus Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes […]
2022-03-24 Patients With Vulnerable Immune Systems Worry Vaccine Exemptions May Put Them In Peril Aaron Bolton Charlie OāNeill received part of her husbandās liver in a 2013 living donor transplant and has been taking drugs that suppress her immune system ever since to prevent her body from attacking the organ. āI frequently get […]
2022-03-21 Sharing Covid Vax Facts Inside ICE Detention, One Detainee at a Time Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News The sounds of wailing ambulances, car horns, and bustling traffic filtered into the high-rise home office of Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras in downtown Los Angeles as he settled into a brown leather couch to […]
2022-03-20 It Was Already Hard to Find Evusheld, a Covid Prevention Therapy. Now Itās Even Harder. Hannah Recht As immunocompromised people across the country work to get Evusheld, a potentially lifesaving covid therapy, several hundred providers of the injections were removed from a federal dataset on Wednesday night, making the therapy even harder […]
