More states are adopting vaccine mandates for health care workers, leaving the remaining unvaccinated, and hospitals already short staffed and filled with COVID patients, with limited options. Read More
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Health workers get panic buttons as COVID deniers get violent
Enlarge / A healthcare worker treats a patient inside a negative pressure room in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Hospitals in several states are ramping up security and even providing wearable panic buttons to staff amid a wave of […]
New U.S. COVID cases are down 20%. See how your state is doing
The number of new cases has dropped over the past two weeks in a majority of U.S. states. Read More
Poll: 71% of unvaccinated say booster doses mean vaccines aren’t working
Enlarge / A health worker administers a COVID-19 booster vaccine and an influenza vaccine to an Army veteran at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on September 24, 2021, in Hines, Illinois. (credit: Getty | Scott Olson ) Over the past few weeks, federal health advisers pored over data on booster doses for Pfizer’s COVID-19 […]
NY prepared for tens of thousands of unvaccinated health workers to lose jobs
Enlarge / Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against COVID-19 mandates in New York on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) New York state has braced itself for the possibility of losing tens of thousands of unvaccinated health workers who fail to meet the state’s Monday deadline for COVID-19 vaccination. Last month, New […]
As Florida punishes schools, study finds masks cut school COVID outbreaks 3.5X
Enlarge / A second-grade teacher talks to her class during the first day of school at Tustin Ranch Elementary School in Tustin, CA on Wednesday, August 11, 2021. (credit: Getty | Paul Bersebach) Schools with universal masking were 3.5 times less likely to have a COVID-19 outbreak and saw rates of child COVID-19 cases 50 […]
CDC director overrules experts, allows Pfizer boosters for health workers
Enlarge / CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate committee hearing in July 2021. (credit: Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) Just past midnight last night, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overruled a committee of independent advisers, allowing for use of a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine booster dose in people with increased risk of […]
The science behind a fond farewell
What motivation science has to say about goodbyes. Plus, GE’s $1.45 billion acquisition and monoclonal antibody bottleneck. Read More
Following expert advice, FDA authorizes boosters for people 65+, high risk
Enlarge / The Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Congressional Quarterly) The US Food and Drug Administration late Wednesday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people ages 65 and up. Also eligible for boosters will be those ages 18 to 64 who are at high risk […]
Florida’s new surgeon general skeptical of vaccines, opposes masks
Enlarge / Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference at the Florida Department of Health office in Viera, Florida, on September 1, 2021. (credit: Getty | SOPA images) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that the state’s new surgeon general will be Joseph Ladapo, a UCLA researcher known for opposing evidence-based mask mandates, vaccine […]