For Kids With Special Needs, Online Schooling Divides Haves and Have-Nots
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). ALHAMBRA, Calif. — It’s Tuesday morning, and teacher Tamya...
Month: August 2020
Med Students ‘Feel Very Behind’ Because of COVID-Induced Disruptions in Training
COVID-19 is disrupting just about every student’s 2020 education, but medical students have it particularly hard right now. “It’s a...
How to Weigh Evacuation Options With Both Wildfires and COVID at Your Door
As the smoke thickened near her home in Santa Cruz, California, last week, Amanda Smith kept asking herself the same...
COVID + Influenza: This Is a Good Year to Get a Flu Shot, Experts Advise
Flu season will look different this year, as the country grapples with a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than...
5 Things to Know About Convalescent Blood Plasma
President Donald Trump told the American people this week that convalescent plasma is a potential new treatment for COVID-19. His...
Pence Praises Trump’s ‘Seamless’ COVID Response, Leaves Out His State Feuds
Vice President Mike Pence portrayed his boss, President Donald Trump, as a leader who has reached out across the aisle...
Republican Convention, Day 3: Revisionist History
In accepting the Republican Party nomination Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence accurately recounted the history of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, and...
Another COVID Mystery: Patients Survive Ventilator, But Linger in a Coma
Leslie Cutitta said yes, twice, when clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston called asking whether she wanted them to...
Drug Overdose Deaths Showed a One-Year Decline in 2018. But There’s More to the Story.
Detective Ryan Holets, whose personal story includes the adoption of an infant born to a drug-addicted mother, addressed...
They Cared for Some of New York’s Most Vulnerable Communities. Then 12 Died.
Dr. Reza Chowdhury didn’t charge copays when his patients were low on cash. He gave them his home phone number...
Republican Convention, Day 2: Pomp, the Pandemic and Planned Parenthood
The Republican National Convention offered Americans a picture Tuesday night of a compassionate White House in action. But not a...
Many People of Color, Immigrants Among 1,080 US Health Workers Lost to COVID
Danielle Renwick, The Guardian and Shoshana Dubnow More than 1,000 front-line health care workers reportedly have died of COVID-19, according...
