(HONOLULU) — Flying to a faraway beach might seem like the perfect way to escape a pandemic, but for isolated Pacific islands, controlling the coronavirus means cutting off tourism. Hawaii has among the lowest COVID-19 infection and mortality rates in the U.S. As cases rose in March, Gov. David Ige did something no other state … Read more
(NEW DELHI) — India relaxed some coronavirus lockdown restrictions on Monday even as the pace of infection picked up and reopenings drew crowds of people. The near-total 5-week lockdown on India’s 1.3 billion population achieved a slowdown in the spread of the virus but has caused immense hardship for India’s legions of poor people, who … Read more
(HVAMMSTANGI, Iceland) — Winter storms isolated the northern village of Hvammstangi from the rest of Iceland. Then spring brought the coronavirus, isolating villagers from each other. Now, as summer approaches, residents hope life is getting back to some kind of normal. High schools, hair salons, dentists and other businesses across Iceland are reopening Monday after … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration, under fire for allowing more than 100 commercial coronavirus antibody tests on the market without review, moved Monday to assert oversight, saying the tests will have to pass agency muster, including meeting standards for quality and accuracy. View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley
More than 3,000 people are projected to die daily of the disease by that date, according to the projections. View original article Contributor: William Wan,
A shadow pandemic of mental illness is emerging, but America’s behavioral health system is unprepared, ill-equipped and already on the brink of financial collapse in many places. View original article Contributor: William Wan
The symptoms of itchy eyes, sneezing and runny nose are caused by the immune system’s response to mold spores or pollen. View original article Contributor: Linda Searing
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WHO says it recognises benefits of traditional, alternative medicine as possible treatments for Covid-19 IOL >View original article Contributor:
In an important book, he challenged the widely held Freudian notion that same-sex attraction was curable, finding it instead rooted in biology. View original article Contributor: