Category: Covid-19
The Aftermath
Yes, you should test for Covid before going to a gathering
What parents should know about Covid-19 vaccines for babies and little kids
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted emergency authorization to Covid-19 vaccines for infants and toddlers, from Moderna and from Pfizer/BioNTech. The FDA also authorized Moderna’s vaccine for kids between 6 years old and 17 years old. The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine was previously the only option for children ages 5 and up. The approval…
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4 big questions about Covid-19 vaccines for babies and toddlers
Independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of granting emergency approval to the first Covid-19 vaccines for infants and toddlers, from Moderna and from Pfizer/BioNTech. The vote opens the door to immunizing roughly 18 million children, closing one of the largest remaining immunization gaps in the population. The…
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How the US is failing refugees, in one chart
For the first time on record, the global number of people forced to flee their homes has crossed the staggering milestone of 100 million, according to recent data from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. That 100 million includes refugees, asylum seekers, and those displaced inside their borders by conflict. If they were a single country,…
We just got the most comprehensive study of pandemic learning loss
In March 2020, schools across the country switched to remote learning due to the pandemic. But they didn’t all switch back to in-person learning at the same time. Now, we’re starting to get a clearer picture of the impact of those decisions on students. Thomas Kane, faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research…
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The kids who have never known life without Covid-19
The way the United States pays for nurses is broken
The pandemic made a long-simmering problem in hospitals impossible to ignore: We desperately depend on nurses to deliver quality health care, but the American health system does not properly value the work that they do — in the most literal sense. Most US hospitals run under a fee-for-service system: They make money by billing for…
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Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers
After the month of May saw the United States cross the line of more than 1 million reported deaths from Covid-19, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease is continuing to mutate. That means a growing number of new omicron subvariants are now fueling another rise in infections. The formula for containing the worst effects…