Letter: Reasons to support Medicare For All – Chico Enterprise-Record
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Month: February 2021
Viewpoint: Female, younger, better-educated and affluent – How ‘alternative medicine’ has taken America by storm and endangered lives – Genetic Literacy Project
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Four reasons experts say coronavirus cases are dropping in the United States
Some point to the quickening pace of covid-19 vaccine administration, while others chalk it up to social distancing measures. View original article Contributor: Reis Thebault
Democrats’ Push to Expand Medicaid Depends on Red States Taking the Bait
Every week, Shellie Fry carefully plans out each meal she, her 81-year-old father, and her 30-year-old son will eat. She buys the least amount of food she thinks they can manage because money has been tight since her father lost his job cleaning charter buses in March, after the pandemic hit. Without health insurance, she … Read more
A Love Letter For All the Days After Valentine’s Day
A version of this article appeared in this week’s It’s Not Just You newsletter. SUBSCRIBE HERE to have an essay delivered to your inbox every Sunday. GIVING ORDINARY LOVE ITS BEAUTIFUL DUE The most loving thing I ever saw my father do for my mother was getting up before dawn in the permafrost of February … Read more
Thousands More COVID-19 Patients Were Sent to New York Nursing Homes Than Previously Thought
(NEW YORK) — More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic under a controversial directive that was scrapped amid criticism it accelerated outbreaks, according to new records obtained by The Associated Press. The new number of 9,056 recovering patients sent to hundreds … Read more
Exclusive: New York Tells Hospitals In Leaked Email That Staff ‘Must’ Come Before the Elderly In COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
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The state of New York has warned hospitals that they cannot start giving COVID-19 vaccines to elderly people until they finish vaccinating hospital staff members, according to an email sent to hospitals across the state just before midnight on Feb. 5 from the governor’s vaccination chief, and obtained by TIME this week. The memo from … Read more
The U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Is Getting Faster. But Is it Enough?
On Dec. 8, 2020, when then-President Elect Joe Biden promised that his incoming administration would deliver 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to patients’ arms in his first 100 days in office, none of the highly anticipated inoculations were yet authorized. Even with highly promising results from medical trials and months of planning by state … Read more
Do Vaccines Stop the Spread of COVID-19? What You Need to Know
The way most people think of vaccines is pretty simple: you get vaccinated, and your immune system is primed and trained to fight off the invisible intruder in question, be it virus or bacteria. If you’re protected, you can’t be infected, and if you’re not infected, then you can’t spread it to anyone else. And … Read more
My Kids Are in Daycare. How Should That Affect My Family’s Social Distancing Strategy?
Welcome to COVID Questions, TIME’s advice column. We’re trying to make living through the pandemic a little easier, with expert-backed answers to your toughest coronavirus-related dilemmas. While we can’t and don’t offer medical advice—those questions should go to your doctor—we hope this column will help you sort through this stressful and confusing time. Got a … Read more