Month: April 2021

How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives? View original article Contributor: Linda Villarosa

Moderate drinking is unlikely to impair the immune response to the Covid vaccine, but heavy drinking might. View original article Contributor: Anahad O’Connor

Bioengineer Linda Griffith once grew a human ear on the back of a mouse. Now she is reframing endometriosis — a “women’s disease” — as a key to unlocking some of biology’s greatest secrets. View original article Contributor: Rachel E. Gross

The U.S. announced Monday it would share its entire supply of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine with other countries and readied an aid package for India, as President Joe Biden pivots to ramp up U.S. pandemic assistance to the rest of the world. The decision would make as many as 60 million vaccine doses available for export … Read more

India is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. The country recorded 352,991 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, breaking the record once again for the most cases recorded in a single day anywhere in the world since the beginning of the pandemic. Hospital ICUs are overcrowded. There are shortages of oxygen for some patients … Read more

The pandemic won’t end for anyone until it ends for everyone. That sentiment has been repeated so many times, by so many people, it’s easy to forget it’s not just a cliche—particularly if you live in one of the wealthy countries, like the U.S. and Israel, that has made significant moves toward what feels like … Read more

A pediatrician got the disease seven weeks after receiving her second dose. She is among a tiny but growing number who are contending with this disturbing experience. View original article Contributor: Steven Findlay

How to fix five common problems, such as feedback and background noise. View original article Contributor: Hallie Levine