Tag: Covid-19
Health: Nicki Minaj and a Tweet Storm about a Vaccine
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It might be dismissed as an ephemeral matter, but it is all-too-typical of the nature of debate and discussion of the pandemic and...
Health: Sweeping new Covid-19 vaccine mandates
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In an address to the nation on September 9, President Biden announced new measures his administration is instituting in order to try to...
Health: Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Gets Full FDA Approval
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has (on August 23) granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine, a two-dose regimen...
Health: Keeping Masks at the Ready for the Next Crisis
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BusinessWeek reports that several manufacturers of N95s and surgical masks have stopped production in recent weeks. As people get vaccinated, and as local...
Health: Pandemic Confinement has Worsened Opioid Abuse
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The Orange County Drug Free Office, in central Florida, is offering Narcan, the spray used for treatment of opioid overdose emergencies, and training...
Health: An ICU Near Salt Lake City
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"We have people in their 20s, 30s, even 40s who are so desperately sick , and we're seeing all patients who are unvaccinated....
Health: An Olympics Held to Empty Stadia
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After a pandemic-inspired year-long delay, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are underway. Since the Covid-19 pandemic is as yet unconquered, especially in Japan, no...
Health: Is the Delta Variant Sending us Back in Time?
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The Red Cross is warning of an onrushing pandemic emergency in southeast Asia's largest country, Indonesia, as the need for ventilators becomes so...
Science: What is 5G broadband, anyway?
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There have been lots of controversies, and a number of conspiracy theories, about 5G broadband mobile networks. For a time, early in the...
Health: A Spike in Opioid Overdoses
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In the mid 2010s, an innocent age without a pandemic, opioid overdose was, and was widely seen as, the greatest public health threat...