DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-02-12 Era of ‘Free’ Covid Vaccines, Test Kits, and Treatments Is Ending. Who Will Pay the Tab Now? Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Time is running out for free-to-consumer covid vaccines, at-home test kits, and even some treatments. The White House announced this month that the national public health emergency, first declared in […]
2022-12-12 Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits. Hannah Recht Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with covid-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing […]
2022-06-11 The Unseen Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic: Eating disorders are on the rise and treatment can help (Family Features) Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, increases in mental health issues have been widely documented. While diagnoses like anxiety and depression are more common, other problems, such as eating disorders, have not been […]
2022-05-23 High-Tech’s Business Model Hasn’t Worked for the Cue Covid Test Eric Taub “I’ve got this,” coos Gal Gadot in Cue Health’s Super Bowl TV commercial. Cue hired the “Wonder Woman” actress to be the voice of the company’s new high-tech covid-19 testing device. The ad pushes the notion that the at-home covid test produces […]
2022-03-19 To Prevent Future Variants, We Must Protect Those Most At Risk By Michael Rose As the omicron wave wanes, people across the U.S. are welcoming reprieve from a virus that has killed nearly 1 million Americans and hospitalized millions more. But as recent articles in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other outlets have pointed […]
2022-02-12 How to short-circuit short-term thinking OPINION: Human behavior is fueling major social dilemmas — from climate change to the Covid pandemic to the spread of misinformation. But that means it’s also the solution, if only we can harness psychology for the common good. By Paul Van Lange By David Rand The world is […]
Pandemic-related school closings likely to have far-reaching effects on child well-being Schools are wrestling with the consequences of long-term closures because of the pandemic. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Sandra M. Chafouleas, University of Connecticut A global analysis has found that kids whose schools closed to stop the spread of various waves of the coronavirus lost educational […]
2022-02-01 Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems Geneva, 1 February 2022 – Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental […]
2022-01-30 In Super-Vaxxed Vermont, Covid Strikes — But Packs Far Less Punch Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News Even Eden, a snow-covered paradise in northern Vermont, is poisoned by omicron. The nearly vertical ascent of new coronavirus cases in recent weeks, before peaking in mid-January, affected nearly every mountain hamlet, every shuttered factory town, every […]
Gain-of-Function Research: All in the Eye of the Beholder By Charles Schmidt In 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) organized a meeting after two laboratories independently reported eye-opening results. In both labs, researchers had managed to alter the avian H5N1 flu virus so it could spread through the air among ferrets, an animal often […]