DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-03-13 Pandemic Medical Innovations Leave Behind People With Disabilities Lauren Weber Divya Goel, a 35-year-old deaf-blind woman in Orlando, Florida, has had two telemedicine doctors’ appointments during the pandemic. Each time, she was denied an interpreter. Her doctors told her she would have to get insurance to pay for an interpreter, which is […]
2022-03-11 The NFL Has Been Using an Unproven Measure to Get Players With Covid Back on the Field Fast Rae Ellen Bichell Two months before the Super Bowl, the omicron surge was decimating NFL rosters as players tested positive for covid-19. In mid-December, the NFL postponed a game between the Los Angeles Rams and […]
2022-03-10 One California University Has Unified Town and Gown to Fight Covid. Why Haven’t Others? Mark Kreidler Once a week, Lori Janich drives down the street from her office and partakes in an ongoing success story. Phone in hand to confirm her appointment, she strolls into the massive Activities and Recreation Center on the […]
2022-03-09 Even mild cases of COVID-19 can leave a mark on the brain, such as reductions in gray matter – a neuroscientist explains emerging research A new brain-imaging study finds that participants who had even mild COVID-19 showed an average reduction in whole brain sizes. Kirstypargeter/iStock via Getty Images Plus Jessica Bernard, Texas A&M University Researchers […]
2022-03-08 Charts Paint a Grim Picture 2 Years Into the Coronavirus Pandemic Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact The coronavirus pandemic is now stretching into its third year, a grim milestone that calls for another look at the human toll of covid-19, and the unsteady progress in containing it. Covid rocketed up the list of leading killers […]
2022-03-06 When Teens Blow Off Parents’ Pleas to Get Vaccinated, the Consequences Can Be Deadly Bernard J. Wolfson COSTA MESA, Calif. — Kennedy Stonum, a high school junior, deflected repeated entreaties from her father to please just get vaccinated against covid-19. “I would send her articles. I would send her studies. I would […]
2022-02-25 Why Pregnant People Were Left Behind While Vaccines Moved at ‘Warp Speed’ to Help the Masses Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Kia Slade was seven months pregnant, unvaccinated, and fighting for breath, her oxygen levels plummeting, when her son came into the world last May. A severe case of covid pneumonia had left […]
2022-02-23 ‘Injections, Injections, Injections’: Troubling Questions Follow Closure of Sprawling Pain Clinic Chain Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News HANFORD, Calif. — On May 13 of last year, the cellphones of thousands of California residents undergoing treatment for chronic pain lit up with a terse text message: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, […]
2022-02-22 As Covid Slogs On, Seniors Find Fortitude Waning and Malaise Growing Judith Graham Late one night in January, Jonathan Coffino, 78, turned to his wife as they sat in bed. “I don’t know how much longer I can do this,” he said, glumly. Coffino was referring to the caution that’s come to define his […]
2022-02-21 Inmates Who Died Asked for Release Before Falling Ill With Covid LJ Dawson Rory Adams did not know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia would be the last time he saw his wife alive. She’d entered prison in early January 2021 to serve a 42-month sentence for failure to […]