Tag: Coronavirus

So what's coming down the pike?

The omicron variant offers yet another reason for caution in the age of COVID-19. Now that you’re in the know, keep yourself safer with a few thoughtful tips.

The shifting recommendations don’t mean that the old ones were wrong, necessarily, only that conditions have changed.

“Our expectation should be, by July, this will be the dominant variant.”

Little attention has been paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.

Corporate profits are not more important than the lives of millions of poor people around the globe.

Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Caroline Chen, health care reporter, shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.

A president can do a lot in battling climate change, without Congressional approval, through executive orders and EPA regulations. Obama’s record was mixed and hesitant. Biden will need to do many times better.

The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.

The WHO findings were based on an analysis of roughly 6 million international cases that spanned from late February to mid-July.