Month: April 2021

View original article Contributor: William Wan

New guidelines waive training for doctors to prescribe buprenorphine and allow more health-care workers to give prescriptions. View original article Contributor: Amy Goldstein

Even unvaccinated individuals may go without masks when walking, jogging or biking outdoors with household members. CDC also provides clarifications and new guidance for the fully vaccinated related to work, quarantine and testing. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun

View original article Contributor: William Wan

New guidelines waive training for doctors to prescribe buprenorphine and allow more health-care workers to give prescriptions. View original article Contributor: Amy Goldstein

Even unvaccinated individuals may go without masks when walking, jogging or biking outdoors with household members. CDC also provides clarifications and new guidance for the fully vaccinated related to work, quarantine and testing. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology argued that not all indoor settings are the same, varying by size, ventilation, air filtration, occupancy and the nature of the activity. View original article Contributor: Kim Bellware

The CDC recommendations for mask-wearing among fully vaccinated people — who can take them off in private but should wear them in public — are “absolutely appropriate,” one expert said. View original article Contributor: Ben Guarino

Because we need all the healthy folks to get shots, so the people who can’t will still be protected by the “herd” of immune people around them. View original article Contributor: Angela Fritz

Officials say they hope that such an assignation could mean more funding and more tourists for the region. View original article Contributor: Angela Fritz