Tag: Covid-19
Health: Carrick Flynn and the Next Pandemic
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Gabe Bankman-Fried runs a group founded in 2020, in the worst days of the Covid pandemic, designed to help the United States, and...
Health: Does Wearing Masks Really Work?
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Over the last two years, the issue of the value of masks in preventing contagion of Covid-19 has been a hotly contested matter,...
Health: Denmark and Covid-19
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On February 1, 2022, Denmark's government announced that Covid-19, the pandemic that through three main variants has discombobulated the world for two years...
DeSantis and the Demise of a Million Covid Tests
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The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is campaigning for a second term this year. He faces at least one opponent in the Republican...
Health: Omicron now the Dominant Covid Variant in the U.S.
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On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) first described a mutant of the Covid virus then just identified in South Africa...
Health: Africa and Covid Vaccines
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Only 2.5% of the residents of the continent of Africa have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Many believe this is a worrisome statistic, not...
Health: The Holidays and the Next Covid Wave?
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As winter approaches, people live in closer quarters with one another, and breathe more indoor air. Also, the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas...
Tuesday’s Gubernatorial Elections: Virginia and New Jersey
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Glenn Youngkin (R) defeated Terry McAuliffe, (D) in the campaign to become the next Governor of Virginia. This is widely regarded as a...
Health: Biden Administration, Covid, and Children 5 to 11
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On October 26 an advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a low-dose of Pfizer's vaccine for Covid-19...
Health: How Well (or Poorly) Have Media Covered the Pandemic?
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The Covid-19 has been a big part of American life for well over a year and a half. As one might have expected,...