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As frustration over the pace of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues to build, health officials in Colorado on Tuesday reported the first known U.S. case of the variant of Covid-19 …
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In the decades before Covid-19, two frightening infectious disease epidemics — HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis — were raging in New York City when David Dinkins became the city’s mayor in 1990. …
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Following the market turmoil after the failure of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve Board began conducting “stress tests” in 2009 to make sure the banking …
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Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the perplexing problems of Covid-19 long-haulers seem no nearer resolution — or even explanation — than when they first puzzled doctors and patients …
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In December 2018, when I set out to write about the global health issues the world should watch for in 2019, I noted it had been a while since the …
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“Mom is getting older,” my brother said to me as we chatted on the phone. “We need to prepare.” He started offering ideas. “Should we make a fund for her …
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As Covid-19 vaccines go into broad use, some rare side effects of vaccination will almost certainly emerge, like the reports of small numbers of people developing anaphylaxis. But so will …
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As the latest surge in Covid-19 cases pushes cases and deaths higher — nearly 18 million cases to date and nearly 320,000 deaths — the U.S. is entering a dangerous …
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I received my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on a Wednesday, as soon as a vaccination slot opened up at my hospital. That jab started a countdown in …
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