Month: March 2020

A man from Westchester County was hospitalized, and a school attended by one of his children was closed on Tuesday. View original article Contributor:

My plan was to photograph women displaced by ISIS. But in Mosul, I quickly found myself trying to save lives. View original article Contributor:

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist about whether to reveal that you have a degenerative illness to your employer and more. View original article Contributor:

Beijing and Shanghai will now require people who have recently visited countries where infections are on the rise to undergo quarantines. View original article Contributor:

Rhode Island’s first coronavirus case is an administrator at a Catholic school, who came down with symptoms after a trip to Italy. View original article Contributor:

“Have you found an article of clothing with a suspicious stain?” asks the website of one Florida-based company called All About Truth DNA Services, which informs readers that “aprrpoximately [sic] 60% of husbands and 40% of wives will have an affair at some point,” and recommends consumers wait for their “suspicious item” to dry and … Read more

You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn’t mean we could handle it—biologically, epidemiologically and most important, emotionally. We are currently in the midst of a global near-panic over what, in some respects, … Read more

A Chinese biotech company which claimed to be able to manufacture an experimental drug from Gilead Sciences with the potential to treat the novel coronavirus, was censured for disclosing inaccurate information. The Shanghai Stock Exchange said in an statement Sunday that BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology has not gained approval from China’s drug regulator to make the … Read more

Skimpy health insurance and lack of sick days are likely to make communities more vulnerable. View original article Contributor: Amy Goldstein