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2022-02-18 Deer, mink and hyenas have caught COVID-19 – animal virologists explain how to find the coronavirus in animals and why humans need to worry White-tailed deer are one of the few wild species that scientists have found to be infected with the coronavirus – at least so far. Andrew C/WikimediaCommons, CC BY Sue VandeWoude, Colorado […]
2022-02-14 Exits by Black and Hispanic Teachers Pose a New Threat to Covid-Era Education Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News Lynette Henley needed one more year to receive her full pension after 40 years as a teacher, but she couldn’t convince herself it was worth the risk. So Henley, 65, who has diabetes and […]
2022-02-13 What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government Won’t Say. Christine Spolar The four free covid-19 rapid tests President Joe Biden promised in December for every American household have begun arriving in earnest in mailboxes and on doorsteps. A surge of covid infections spurred wide demand for over-the-counter antigen tests […]
2022-02-12 Montana Mice May Hold the Secret to Virus Spillover Jim Robbins For the past 20 years, Amy Kuenzi has spent three days of every month traveling to a ranch near Gregson, Montana, and setting out traps that contain peanut butter and oats. Her quarry is deer mice. She takes blood samples, looks for […]
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 […]
2022-02-07 The Advice to ‘Vaccinate and Test’ Isn’t Much Help to Parents With Kids Under 5 Bram Sable-Smith Just before my son’s 9-month checkup, my wife and I debated whether to postpone it. It was a “well baby visit,” but the potential threats to his health felt real. The last time he went to […]
2022-02-06 Faxes and Snail Mail: Will Pandemic-Era Flaws Unleash Improved Health Technology? Bram Sable-Smith Jamie Taylor received two letters from the Missouri Department of Social Services Family Support Division that began, “Good news,” before stating that she was denied Medicaid coverage. Her income exceeded the state’s limits for the federal-state public health insurance […]
2022-02-03 States Were Sharing Covid Test Kits. Then Omicron Hit. Katheryn Houghton In a few short months, states have gone from donating surplus rapid covid-19 tests to states with shortages to hoarding them as demand driven by the spike in cases strains supplies. Last January, North Dakota had amassed 2.7 million Abbott Laboratories BinaxNOW […]
2022-02-02 It’s Day 6 of Covid, and a Rapid Antigen Test Comes Back Positive. Stay Home, Say Virologists. Rae Ellen Bichell What does it mean if a person’s rapid antigen test result comes back positive after five days of isolation due to covid-19? According to the experts, that person is most likely still […]
2021-02-01 CDC Tells Pharmacies to Give 4th Covid Shots to Immunocompromised Patients Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reached out to pharmacists Wednesday to reinforce the message that people with moderate to severe immune suppression are eligible for fourth covid shots. The conference call came a […]