[unable to retrieve full-text content] During a hearing on Capitol Hill, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was “cautiously optimistic” about a coronavirus vaccine. Health
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White House Adviser Keeps Pushing Unfounded Claims About Hydroxychloroquine
[unable to retrieve full-text content] President Donald Trump and his allies continue to falsely tout the anti-malarial drug as a COVID-19 treatment, despite scant concrete evidence of its efficacy. Health
What Public Health Experts Think About Expediting A Coronavirus Vaccine
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The FDA must approve any COVID-19 vaccine before it’s widely distributed, but political pressure could cloud the decision. Health
Why You Should Be Skeptical About Stories Of People Getting Coronavirus Twice
[unable to retrieve full-text content] It is unlikely that people are getting sick with COVID-19 multiple times. Health
Halsey Pinpoints The Problem With Jokes About Kanye West’s Mental Health
[unable to retrieve full-text content] “You can hate someone’s actions or opinions without contributing to stigma,” said the “Without Me” singer, who is open about her bipolar diagnosis. Health
I’m An Angry Disabled Woman. Here’s What I Want You To Know About Inaccessibility.
[unable to retrieve full-text content] “Society prefers I talk about how I overcame my obstacles rather than the injustices I face within a world that is not built around the needs of the disabled community.” Health
How To Instill A Healthy Attitude About Exercise In Your Kids
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Experts share how parents can encourage their children to have a positive relationship with physical activity. Health
Loneliness and the Pandemic: We Need to Talk About How These Collide
Another thing that is a little different about this versus another kind of disaster is that because [the virus is] invisible, it brings up different kinds of fears for people—to have a reaction to something that you can see, that is tangible, versus a kind of elemental fear about something you’re so scared about but […]
What I’ve Learned About Academic Ableism As A University Employee With Chronic Pain
In my day job as an accessibility adviser at a university, I support students with disabilities to complete their undergraduate studies with academic accommodations. From intake through graduation, if all goes as planned, I work to provide students with extensions and makeup tests when health conditions make these necessary despite their best attempts to avoid […]
Cycling Electric Is The New Magazine All About E-Bikes
Do you have questions about about e-bikes. Questions like: What are they? How do they work? How fast do they go? How much do they cost to buy and run? What are the regulations surrounding them? All these questions and more are answered in Cycling Electric, a new magazine from the publisher of Coach. Whether you’re […]
Laura Ingraham Spews Yet Another Wild Conspiracy Theory About Anthony Fauci
Fox News personality Laura Ingraham has cooked up yet another wild conspiracy theory involving Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. The host of “The Ingraham Angle” last month described Fauci as “the medical deep state.” On Tuesday, she railed against Fauci’s earlier dire warning to a Senate committee that the United States […]
Confused About What’s Safe To Do Right Now? Ask Us Your COVID-19 Questions.
Leave your coronavirus questions in the comments here any time before July 7, and our health experts will respond to them. If you don’t already have a login, it will prompt you to sign up, which is free. Pandemic fatigue has fully set in. States are in various stages of reopening, and summer weather is […]
What’s So Hard About Developing A COVID-19 Vaccine? We Asked A Scientist
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the globe, the best hope for truly getting it under control is a vaccine that would protect people from contracting COVID-19. Scientists in the U.S., China, the U.K. and elsewhere are racing to develop a vaccine and there have been some promising signs that one of the […]
White Evangelicals Aren’t As Worried About COVID-19 As Other Faith Groups: Study
White evangelicals’ attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic are considerably more relaxed than those of other religious groups, a new study said. White evangelical Protestants were generally less worried about contracting COVID-19, more ready for life to return to normal and much more likely to say that President Donald Trump was handling the pandemic well, compared […]
The Okra Project Founder Talks About Nourishing Black Trans People
It is impossible to declare that Black lives matter without reiterating the fact that Black trans lives matter. While much of the public conversation about police violence tends to overemphasize cisgender Black men, Black liberation isn’t possible unless all Black lives are valued and protected. More specifically, our society must reckon with the ways that […]