Patients Fend for Themselves to Access Highly Touted Covid Antibody Treatments
By the time he tested positive for covid-19 on Jan. 12, Gary Herritz was feeling pretty sick. He suspects he...
Month: January 2021
Biden’s Covid Challenge: 100 Million Vaccinations in the First 100 Days. It Won’t Be Easy.
It’s in the nature of presidential candidates and new presidents to promise big things. Just months after his 1961 inauguration,...
California Is Overriding Its Limits on Nurse Workloads as Covid Surges
California’s telemetry nurses, who specialize in the electronic monitoring of critically ill patients, normally take care of four patients at...
Advocates View Health Care as Key to Driving LGBTQ Rights Conversation
When Allison Scott came out as a trans woman in 2013, she told not only family and friends, but also...
On Trump’s Last Full Day, Nation Records 400,000 Covid Deaths
While millions wait for a lifesaving shot, the U.S. death count from covid-19 continues to soar upward with horrifying speed....
Are Public Health Ads Worth the Price? Not if They’re All About Fear
ST. LOUIS — The public service announcement showed a mother finding her teenage son lifeless, juxtaposed with the sound of...
Black Americans Are Getting Vaccinated at Lower Rates Than White Americans
Black Americans are receiving covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans in the first weeks of the chaotic...
Exploring the British Isles
The British Isles are a set of islands off continental Europe's northwest coast and comprises Ireland, Great Britain and several...
Biden Terms Vaccine Rollout ‘A Dismal Failure’ as He Unveils His Pandemic Response Plan
Victoria Knight In the past 24 hours, President-elect Joe Biden has delivered two speeches focused on the nation’s covid response....
CVS and Walgreens Under Fire for Slow Pace of Vaccination in Nursing Homes
The effort to vaccinate some of the country’s most vulnerable residents against covid-19 has been slowed by a federal program...
Geography Is Destiny: Dentists’ Access to Covid Shots Depends on Where They Live
Dr. Monte Junker, an Oregon dentist, is waiting for his turn to get vaccinated for covid even though he considers...
5 Reasons to Wear a Mask Even After You’re Vaccinated
As an emergency physician, Dr. Eugenia South was in the first group of people to receive a covid vaccine. She...
