California GOP Consultant Rues ‘Big Mistake’ That Led to Family’s COVID Infections

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Fauci Unfazed as Scientists Rely on Unproven Methods to Create COVID Vaccines

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Forced Sports Timeout Puts Squeeze on College Coffers, Scholarships and Towns

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What Seniors Can Expect as Their New Normal in a Post-Vaccine World

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California GOP Consultant Rues ‘Big Mistake’ That Led to Family’s COVID Infections

By Sandra R. Nicholson 2 hours ago

Fauci Unfazed as Scientists Rely on Unproven Methods to Create COVID Vaccines

By Sandra R. Nicholson 12 hours ago

Forced Sports Timeout Puts Squeeze on College Coffers, Scholarships and Towns

By Sandra R. Nicholson 12 hours ago

What Seniors Can Expect as Their New Normal in a Post-Vaccine World

By Sandra R. Nicholson 12 hours ago

California GOP Consultant Rues ‘Big Mistake’ That Led to Family’s COVID Infections

By Sandra R. Nicholson 2 hours ago

SACRAMENTO — The tweet Richard Costigan posted July 23 was bluntly honest: “We tried our best to limit exposure to #COVID19 but we slipped up somewhere.”

Costigan tweeted while waiting anxiously in the parking lot of a hospital outside Sacramento. The veteran Republican political consultant had just dropped his wife, Gloria, off at the emergency room. He wasn’t allowed to go in with her.

His thoughts traveled back to the small family gathering they had attended in Georgia nearly

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Fauci Unfazed as Scientists Rely on Unproven Methods to Create COVID Vaccines

By Sandra R. Nicholson 12 hours ago

With millions of lives on the line, researchers have been working at an unprecedented pace to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

But that speed — and some widely touted breakthroughs — belie the enormous complexity and potential risks involved. Researchers have an incomplete understanding of the coronavirus and are using technology that’s largely unproven.

Among many worries: A handful of studies on COVID-19 survivors suggest that antibodies — key immune system proteins that fight infection — begin to disappear within months. That’s led scientists to worry that the protection provided by vaccines could fade quickly as well. Some even question whether vaccines will really end the pandemic. If vaccines produce limited protection against infection, experts note, people will need to continue wearing masks and social distancing even after vaccines roll out.

Yet in an interview with KHN, the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that

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Forced Sports Timeout Puts Squeeze on College Coffers, Scholarships and Towns

By Sandra R. Nicholson 12 hours ago

On college football Saturdays, tiny Clemson, South Carolina (pop. 17,000), turns into a city of 150,000 when fanatics pour into downtown and swarm Memorial Stadium, home of the Tigers. Some don’t even have a ticket to the game, but they come with money to burn.

“It’s well north of $2 million in economic impact per game,” said Susan Cohen, president of the Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce. Hotels sell out rooms at $400 a night; some shops bring in 50% of their year’s revenue during the seven home-game weekends. Add in massive broadcasting contracts and apparel deals that enrich schools directly, and there are hundreds of millions of reasons that universities with large athletic departments and the towns they occupy don’t want to lose even one season to COVID-19.

And that’s just the dollars. There is also the intangible value of a community rallying behind a shared passion in particularly

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What Seniors Can Expect as Their New Normal in a Post-Vaccine World

By Sandra R. Nicholson 12 hours ago

Imagine this scenario, perhaps a year or two in the future: An effective COVID-19 vaccine is routinely available and the world is moving forward. Life, however, will likely never be the same — particularly for people over 60.

That is the conclusion of geriatric medical doctors, aging experts, futurists and industry specialists. Experts say that in the aftermath of the pandemic, everything will change, from the way older folks receive health care to how they travel and shop. Also overturned: their work life and relationships with one another.

“In the past few months, the entire world has had a near-death experience,” said Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave, a think tank on aging around the world. “We’ve been forced to stop and think: I could die or someone I love could die. When those

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