Health Care — Biden to get bivalent COVID booster
The McRib is returning next week, McDonalds announced, and this might be the last year we get to have the delicacy...
Month: October 2022
Test Scores in US Show ‘Historic’ Drop Following COVID
Students across the United States have had “historic” drops in math and reading test scores since the start of the...
European, US officials track BQ.1 Omicron subvariant rises
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) late last week projected that the Omicron BQ.1 sublineage and its...
New vaccine roadmap eyes future threats of coronaviruses
Today the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) published a draft version of a Coronavirus...
While Still Low, Biden’s Approval Ticks Upward in New National UMass Amherst Poll
Topline results and crosstabs for the poll can be found at www.umass.edu/poll AMHERST, Mass. – While a new national University...
Pastor running for office welcomes plan to pardon COVID offenders after being jailed for keeping church open
A clergyman from Alberta, Canada, who was repeatedly imprisoned after not closing his church praised a plan from the province's...
Young Chinese Say Zero-COVID Makes Them the Last Generation
On Sept. 18, a bus carrying 47 people to a COVID-19 quarantine facility crashed in China’s Guizhou province, killing 27...
Universal basic income has been tested repeatedly. It works. Will America ever embrace it?
In January 2019, Zohna Everett was sitting in an airport when her phone rang. On the other end of the...
Ivermectin — a drug once touted as a Covid treatment by conservatives — doesn’t improve recovery much, clinical trial finds
Ivermectin tablets arranged in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIvermectin, a drug once...
The Age of Inflation: Easy Money, Hard Choices
Coming on the heels of the pandemic-induced economic slowdown, the inflation crisis of the past two years seemed to catch...