The latest health news
It has been quite a week for vaccine mandates in the United States. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (the president’s lawyer) expressed its opinion that it is …
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Federal health officials advised Tuesday that even people who’ve had their Covid-19 shots wear masks in public indoor settings in areas with widespread transmission of the coronavirus, a major setback …
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The month of July has seen Covid-19 cases in the United States increase at the fastest pace since last winter, marking the start of the latest wave of infections to …
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In the past week, you may have heard about Olympic athletes who are fully vaccinated getting positive Covid tests or people in Provincetown, Mass., or Texas Democrats or the New …
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The rise of the Delta variant has driven new Covid-19 outbreaks, rattled markets, and reminded us that — for all the progress made in the fight against the pandemic — …
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Did we take off our masks too soon? Can Democrats pass a drug pricing bill? And do pharma CEOs get weapons training? We cover all that and more this week …
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The United States is approaching a plateau in vaccination rates at a perilous moment as the highly transmissible Delta variant has become the dominant strain. People are throwing away their …
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Before Covid-19 vaccines, public health officials fought off the pandemic with the only tools they had: mask-wearing, social distancing, school closures, and limits on the size of gatherings. Now, with …
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NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease …
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