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Coronavirus / Health

Prisons didn’t prescribe much Paxlovid or other Covid-19 treatments, even when they got the drugs

05.05.2022

Federal prisons used just a fraction of the antiviral drugs they were allocated to keep incarcerated people from getting seriously ill or dying of Covid-19, according to new internal records …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Not going all in on the 988 hotline will ensure its failure

20.04.2022

Time is not on our side. With fewer than 100 days until the scheduled rollout of 988, the new nationwide mental health and suicide prevention crisis hotline is unfortunately far …

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Coronavirus / Health

State legislatures renew the push to roll back Covid-related public health measures

22.02.2022

WASHINGTON — State legislators are mobilizing anew to roll back public health measures meant to contain the spread of Covid-19. They are introducing bills in both liberal and conservative states …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Maximizing kidney transplant equity means minimizing geography

28.01.2022

For decades, geography heavily influenced who received kidney and other organ transplants in the United States and who didn’t. An assessment released late last year of a new national policy, …

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Coronavirus

Can a pro-Covid vaccine, anti-mandate position help a Republican win in a Democratic state?

29.10.2021

Glenn Youngkin is playing both sides on Covid-19 vaccines. In his effort to win Virginia’s gubernatorial election next week, the Republican candidate is trying to appease the GOP base with …

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Coronavirus / Health

‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated

18.08.2021

BATON ROUGE, La. — Bren Ingle watched through a set of twin glass doors as her patient drew his final, halting breaths, a terrifyingly long pause separating each one. She …

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Biotech

California could become first state to mandate biosecurity screening by mail-order DNA companies

20.05.2021

California lawmakers on Thursday will vote on a bill that would require the state’s growing gene synthesis industry to adopt screening protocols to keep dangerous DNA out of the hands …

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Coronavirus / Health

‘You work your butt off’: Inside the scramble to bring Covid-19 vaccines to homebound Americans

23.03.2021

CROSS LANES, W.Va. — Karen Meadows’ plans on Wednesday did not involve leaving her house, and they certainly did not involve a Covid-19 vaccination. Wired to an oxygen tank and …

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Coronavirus

Andrew Cuomo’s Covid-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic policymaking

26.02.2021

WASHINGTON — The humbling of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on pandemic policy has been spectacular and swift. Within a matter of days, one of America’s most trusted voices in …

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