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The C.D.C. and N.I.H. launch a rapid, at-home testing initiative in Tennessee and North Carolina.
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Virus Variants Can Infect Mice, Scientists Report
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Eating disorders are up sharply among people stuck at home during the pandemic.
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The Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Is Said to Be Powerfully Protective in Adolescents
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Confidence in Covid-19 vaccination keeps rising significantly in the U.S., but pockets of resistance remain, a survey shows.
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Getting One Vaccine Is Good. How About Mix-and-Match?
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Why Virus Tests at One Elite School Ran Afoul of Regulators
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Getting to Yes: A Nursing Home’s Mission to Vaccinate Its Hesitant Staff
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Getting to Yes: A Nursing Home’s Mission to Vaccinate Its Hesitant Staff
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I Found a Rainbow At the End of My Hunt For a Vaccine Appointment
March 28, 2021 at 04:16PM A version of this article also appeared in the It’s Not Just You newsletter. Sign up here to receive a new edition every Sunday. CHASING RAINBOWS (AND VACCINES) We humans are notoriously unreliable, superstitious narrators, always scanning the horizon for signs that validate what our hearts have already told us. Take me, for example. I keep telling people I was vaccinated at Hogwarts’ Manhattan campus under the waxing moon (it was a gibbous moon to be exact). How auspicious! Ok, so my COVID-vax site was really The City College of New York . But stepping through its big old gothic gates to receive a blessing of science was wondrous, maybe a little spiritual. There was even a rainbow-y halo around that big moon, another lucky omen if you’re hungry for such things. I started digging for lore on moons and rainbows and learned that the physics of rainbows doesn’t detract from the mythical place they have in our cultural imaginations. In fa
A Volunteer Army’s Mission: Vaccinate Black People in the Rural South
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A Volunteer Army’s Mission: Vaccinate Black People in the Rural South
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More than two in five American adults reported recent symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder.
By BY RONI CARYN RABIN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3rozQrh
José Baselga, Who Advanced Breast Cancer Treatments, Dies at 61
By BY KATIE THOMAS from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2NTHtbL
JAMA Editor Placed on Leave Following Racial Controversy
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Pfizer Begins Testing Its Vaccine in Young Children
By BY APOORVA MANDAVILLI from NYT Health https://ift.tt/39g7YiT
Why It Pays to Think Outside the Box on Coronavirus Tests
By BY EMILY ANTHES from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3slI8BM
Why It Pays to Think Outside the Box on Coronavirus Tests
By BY EMILY ANTHES from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3cVPOUA
In Search of a Vaccine, Some Tourists Find Luck in the Caribbean
By BY MELINDA WENNER MOYER from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3cYoXaC
The Next Trick: Pulling Coronavirus Out of Thin Air
By BY EMILY ANTHES from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3cWh8lO
Some Covid-19 Patients Say They’re Left With Ringing Ears
By BY DAVID SEGAL from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3lHJi89
Vaccinated People Can Get Covid, but It’s Most Likely Very Rare
By BY DENISE GRADY from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3rjgxj3
They Had Mild Covid. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.
By BY PAM BELLUCK from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3cWIMPy
How to Vaccinate Homebound Seniors? Take the Shots to Them.
By BY RONI CARYN RABIN AND CHANG W. LEE from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3lDSCK9
How Much Weight Did We Gain During Lockdowns? 2 Pounds a Month, Study Hints
By BY RONI CARYN RABIN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3c8sgwE
First Covid, Then Psychosis: ‘The Most Terrifying Thing I’ve Ever Experienced’
By BY PAM BELLUCK from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2PhwhWu
Menthol Cigarettes Kill Many Black People. A Ban May Finally Be Near.
By BY SHEILA KAPLAN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3cSMr0V
Fully Vaccinated and Time to Party: If You Are 70
By BY JENNIFER STEINHAUER from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2QlB0qJ
Digital NFT Art Is Booming—But at What Cost?
March 19, 2021 at 12:09AM In central Washington State, electric utilities are watching for homes with oddly high power usage after a recent surge in cryptocurrency prices collided with a boom in NFTs, or “non-fungible tokens”—an emerging technology that uses crypto platforms to authenticate ownership of digital files. In an emerging hype cycle, such digital assets have sold at auction for millions of dollars, giving the buyer claim to an “original” version of a computer file, such as a piece of digital art or a sports highlight video. During the last crypto boom, the region—home to some of the cheapest electricity in the U.S.—was beset by a new energy-hungry home industry: basements and sheds loaded with racks of computers churning through advanced mathematical calculations in order to “mine” valuable crypto coins like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Even those small mining operations can overload local grids, creating a problem for local utilities. Around the world, vastly larger cryp
Listen to the Sounds of NASA’s Perseverance Rover Driving on Mars
March 18, 2021 at 10:22PM You wouldn’t think sound could travel very well on Mars—what with the planet’s bare wisp of an atmosphere, which is just 1% the thickness of ours. Yet if you could stand without a spacesuit on the Martian surface (not advised) you’d actually hear plenty. That fact has already been confirmed by the Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars on Feb. 18 and, using a microphone attached to a mast that holds a camera, has picked up sounds of the stirring of the wind and the ticking of its on-board laser as engineers test-fired it. (The laser is used to vaporize bits of rock which the rover can then analyze with its spectrometer.) Now, NASA has used a second microphone to record a much more evocative sound: the turning of wheels and the crunching of gravel as Perseverance rolled its first 27 m (90 ft) on the surface of the Red Planet. The rover moves slowly—so slowly that the little trip took 16 minutes, which makes for fascinating if admittedly labored
Coronavirus Reinfections Are Rare, Danish Researchers Report
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Some Long Covid Patients Feel Much Better After Getting the Vaccine
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How Industrial Fishing Creates More CO2 Emissions Than Air Travel
March 17, 2021 at 10:24PM It’s been well established by now that the agricultural systems producing our food contribute at least one fifth of global anthropogenic carbon emissions—and up to a third if waste and transportation are factored in. A troubling new report points to a previously overlooked source: an industrial fishing process practiced by dozens of countries around the world, including the United States, China, and the E.U. The study , published today in the scientific journal Nature, is the first to calculate the carbon cost of bottom trawling , in which fishing fleets drag immense weighted nets along the ocean floor, scraping up fish, shellfish and crustaceans along with significant portions of their habitats. According to calculations conducted by the report’s 26 authors, bottom trawling is responsible for one gigaton of carbon emissions a year—a higher annual total than (pre-pandemic) aviation emissions . Not only does the practice contribute to climate ch
Some Long Covid Patients Feel Much Better After Getting the Vaccine
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Scientists Grow Mice Embryos in a Mechanical Womb
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Advanced Cancers Are Emerging, Doctors Warn, Citing Pandemic Drop in Screenings
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The U.S. Is Opening Up. For the Anxious, That Comes With a Cost.
By BY MATT RICHTEL from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3tuhvux
Marie Mongan, Who Developed Hypnotherapy for Childbirth, Dies at 86
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Moderna Begins Testing Covid Vaccine in Babies and Children
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Moderna Begins Testing Covid Vaccine in Babies and Children
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Three Feet or Six? Distancing Guideline for Schools Stirs Debate
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Mars Has Much More Water Than Previously Known—But There’s a Catch
March 16, 2021 at 10:53PM There’s never been much mystery surrounding the murder of Mars. Once a warm, wet world, Mars lost its magnetic field more than 4 billion years ago when its outer core cooled, shutting off the dynamo that kept the field in place. That exposed the planet to the solar wind, which clawed away at the atmosphere; and that in turn allowed the planet’s water to sputter off into space. To look at Mars today is to see a desert world, stamped with the dry riverbeds, delicate deltas and deep ocean basins hinting at the water that is no more. At least, that’s the long-accepted view. But according to a study published Mar. 16 in Science by a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology, that scenario might be all wrong. Mars is dry, alright—or at least it appears to be. But the researchers say much of its water—from 30% to a staggering 99% of it—is still there. It simply retreated into the martian rocks and clay rather than escaping into space.
Moderna begins testing Covid vaccine in babies and young children.
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