The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday suddenly dropped its warning about the risk of choirs spreading COVID-19 at religious services after being told to do so by White House officials, The Washington Post reported. The warning was omitted even though choirs can become “super-spreader” events infecting large groups of people at […]
As the coronavirus pandemic has become a mainstay of our lives, everyone is awaiting an effective treatment or a vaccine for COVID-19 that will allow our country to begin normalizing. There’s been near-constant speculation about which potential drugs could be effective against the virus, but early tactics for treatment were mostly based on scientists’ best […]
In recent weeks, several people who were released from prison due to the spread of the coronavirus have made themselves available to the press to describe the grim, desperate conditions in detention centers across the country. The crowded quarters in state and federal prisons make effective social distancing nearly impossible in most cases, and numerous […]
I wish I could say I’m surprised about any of this, but I’ve witnessed the impact of ableism from a young age. When my mom had her first brain aneurysm 15 years before her death, neurosurgeons performed multiple brain surgeries to save her life. Against what I’d been told were 2% odds of survival, she […]
President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed former President Barack Obama for his administration’s shortcomings in dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. “The last administration left us nothing,” Trump said last month. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that Trump’s own budget documents show the opposite ― exposing what it called “a lie of colossal Trumpian proportions.” […]
Keeping a notebook by your bed can be a useful way to remember your dreams long enough to bring them up in session. Jot down some notes when you wake up, even if it’s just a quick image or two that stuck with you. 6. Safely walk through worst-case scenarios. This one’s for you, fellow […]
Surging cases of a mysterious illness in children linked to COVID-19 has triggered an alert by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn physicians what to look out for. Seventeen states have reported cases of what’s now labeled multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which can affect several organs and has been fatal […]
Yevhenii Orlov via Getty ImagesResearchers are exploring a possible link between a rare Kawaski-like inflammatory syndrome and COVID-19 in children. One of very few relative bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic has been that children tend to have milder symptoms. The World Health Organization declared that the “vast majority” of kids who contract COVID-19 will […]
Now, listen, I get it. Movement is my life. I love it in all of its incredibly sweaty glory and you might too. So I get why not being able to go to the gym, pound the pavement with your running group, take a class, or teach a class might be a big deal to […]
Distraction is a concept we tend to think of as negative, associated with actions like avoidance and denial. For most of my life, the need to distract myself felt like a sign of failure: I distract myself, I thought, because I’m not strong enough to face certain things head on. At this point, as an […]
Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: He knew everything. This was our relationship, in sum: I asked him questions and he told me the answers. Is there really a man in the moon? How do sailboats work? What is the highest score anyone’s ever gotten in Pac-Man? In my teen years, he […]
Remdesivir is the new coronavirus buzzword popping up in headline after headline. Health officials have had their eyes on the investigational anti-viral drug for the past few weeks, hoping it may prove to be an effective treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Now, we’ve got a bit of evidence suggesting the […]
A Voice of America journalist who contradicted second lady Karen Pence regarding the vice president’s dismissal of face-mask protocol at the Mayo Clinic was banned Thursday from taking further trips with Mike Pence, The Washington Post reported. A representative from Pence’s office later told Voice of America managers that the punishment might be lifted if the media organization […]
“Before we closed the office, we started a handwashing and ‘don’t come to work if you’re sick’ campaign, but to be honest, I don’t think we were nervous about it at all. We just wanted to keep working and stay healthy any way we could. I think we were shocked because it all seemed to […]
Doctors around the world are trying to make sense of the wide range of effects that COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — can have on the body. Most people associate the infection with respiratory symptoms — fever, cough, fatigue. But many patients who contract the virus experience neurological symptoms such as […]