Gavin Newsom vanquished his political opponents in California’s closely watched gubernatorial election on Tuesday. The politics of COVID and public health are a major reason why. Read More
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Recent Ebola outbreak emerged from someone infected 5 years earlier
Enlarge / Health care workers don protective equipment before working with Ebola patients. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images) A large international research group released a paper today suggesting that Ebola viruses can emerge from five years of dormancy to start off a new outbreak of infections. While this isn’t the first instance in which Ebola re-emerged […]
20 years after 9/11, first responders are still sick, dying, and underpaid
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks, America still hasn’t fulfilled its promises to EMTs and first responders. Read More
With COVID out of control, Biden unveils hefty vaccine mandates
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks on workers rights and labor unions in the East Room at the White House on September 08, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Kevin Dietsch) President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a sweeping six-pronged plan to try to regain control over the COVID-19 pandemic, which is wildly […]
WHO director scolds rich countries, calls for booster moratorium until 2022
Enlarge / World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (credit: Getty | Fabrice Coffrini ) The director-general for the World Health Organization on Wednesday called for a longer moratorium on high-income countries administering COVID-19 booster shots—extending the agency’s requested moratorium from the end of September to at least the end of 2021. The call is […]
DeSantis still fights masks—despite COVID surge, court loss, expert advice, etc .
Enlarge / A protester holds a placard outside an emergency meeting of the Brevard County, Florida School Board in Viera to discuss whether face masks in local schools should be mandatory. (credit: Getty | SOPA Images ) As Florida’s stratospheric COVID-19 surge continues, Governor Ron DeSantis has appealed a judge’s ruling last week that overturned […]
There have been 154 retracted COVID studies. The damage may already be done
There have been 154 COVID-related studies retracted to date, according to Retraction Watch, including now-discredited papers on 5G and the coronavirus and ones recommending unproven drugs like ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Read More
Anger, frustration at FDA over Biden’s booster plan; two top regulators resign
Enlarge / The US Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency ) Two top vaccine regulators have resigned from the Food and Drug Administration, revealing anger, frustration, plus turmoil at the federal agency as it faces intensifying pressure to authorize COVID-19 vaccine booster shots and doses for children […]
Teacher with COVID symptoms went maskless, making her class an experiment
Enlarge / Two classrooms had to be shut down due to a series of problems with maintaining policies meant to limit the spread of the pandemic. (credit: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Images ) On Friday, the CDC released a report that traced the spread of the Delta variant through a California elementary school. It’s tempting […]
More people are poisoning themselves with horse-deworming drug to thwart COVID
Enlarge / tablets of Ivermectin drugs in Tehatta, West Benga, India on 19 May on 2021. (credit: Getty | Nurphoto) Amid the current delta-fueled wave of COVID-19, officials have noted a dangerous surge in the misuse of a deworming drug routinely used in livestock. The result is an uptick in calls to poison control centers, […]