It was another troubling week in California, as growing infections and hospitalizations prompted state and local officials to announce new widespread closures of businesses and schools across the state to slow the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic, which is disproportionately ravaging communities of color, has killed at least 7,345 Californians. This […]
Medicine
One day recently I caught up with Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, a veteran public health expert whom I had last interviewed in April about an article he had published setting forth a program to “crush” the coronavirus in 10 weeks. I asked him how he thought the U.S. had fared […]
Even as they recommended working to reopen schools in-person, the nation’s science academies warned: “It is likely that someone in the school community will contract COVID-19.” But largely missing from the reopening protocols at states and schools around the nation are concrete plans for what administrators are to do when coronavirus […]
If you’ve ever come home from your neighborhood drugstore and noticed that the pills in your prescription look different than what you are used to, you’re not alone. This can be a common occurrence, and a number of factors can impact what goes into your prescription bag. For example, the […]
The Trump White House has undermined government data for years, through intent and incompetence. Getty Data is more important than it’s ever been, which is why the latest news out of the White House is so disturbing. The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to stop reporting COVID-19 numbers to the […]
Outside Publis School 161 in New York, March 24, 2020. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times) Wading into the contentious debate over reopening schools, an influential committee of scientists and educators Wednesday recommended that, wherever possible, younger children and those with special needs should attend school in person. Their report — […]
Schools should try to reopen if they think they can do so safely, prioritizing students with disabilities and children in kindergarten through fifth grade, according to a report released Wednesday. However, schools likely won’t be able to take all the necessary precautions without an injection of resources from states and […]
Drug overdose deaths climbed to a record high last year, reversing a historic decline in 2018 that President Donald Trump touted as one of his administration’s key accomplishments, new federal data show. There were 70,980 reported deaths from overdoses in 2019, surpassing the peak of 70,699 deaths in 2017, according […]