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COVID politics and fatigue work against contact tracers

August 23, 2021 at 8:42 p.m.

Health departments nationwide scaled back their contact tracing in late spring or early summer when COVID-19-19 cases started to decrease as vaccination efforts took center stage. Then delta hit. Now...

In Rural America, twisting arms to take a COVID vaccine first takes trust

August 23, 2021 at 4:33 p.m.

CAIRO, Ill. — Lee Wright was hard at work, constructing a nail salon near the city's abandoned hospital, when Jody Johnson stopped by to introduce himself on a recent afternoon....

School or ‘Russian roulette’? Amid delta variant and lax mask rules, some parents see no difference

August 23, 2021 at 3:29 p.m.

The child had just started kindergarten. Or, as her mother called it, "Russian roulette." That's because her school district in Grand Junction, Colorado, experienced one of the nation's first delta...

In Rural America, twisting arms to take a COVID vaccine first takes trust

August 23, 2021 at 3:21 p.m.

Cairo residents Lee Wright and son Roman Wright pose for a photo on June 23, 2021 not far from the city' s abandoned hospital, where they were building a nail...

The White House says COVID booster shots for all. Here’s what you need to know

August 19, 2021 at 2:35 p.m.

The Biden administration announced plans Wednesday to offer boosters to all U.S. adults as soon as next month, saying that recent data, including some made available only in the past...

Lo que debes saber sobre el refuerzo de la vacuna contra covid

August 18, 2021 at 10:00 p.m.

La administración Biden anunció el miércoles 18 de agosto planes para ofrecer refuerzos de la vacuna contra covid-19 a todos los adultos estadounidenses a partir del próximo mes, y dijo...

‘I don’t want to risk my life for a paycheck’: Immunosuppressed people grapple with returning to workplace

August 18, 2021 at 2:49 p.m.

Elizabeth Groenweghe got a kidney transplant 14 years ago. She now takes several medications to prevent her body from rejecting her transplant organ. But these medications also weaken her immune...

Heces: la nueva herramienta de detección de covid y otras enfermedades

August 16, 2021 at 7:36 p.m.

Desde la reapertura del campus de la Universidad de California-San Diego, el pasado verano, la institución ha recurrido a estrategias de salud pública de probada eficacia, como las pruebas y...

‘No quiero arriesgar mi vida por un sueldo’

August 16, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

Elizabeth Groenweghe recibió un trasplante de riñón hace 14 años. Ahora toma varios medicamentos para evitar que su cuerpo rechace el órgano trasplantado. Pero estos medicamentos también debilitan su sistema...

Apple aims to push more patient data to doctors. But who can gauge its impact on health?

August 13, 2021 at 3:45 p.m.

Soon, Apple announced recently, it will enable doctors to monitor health data from their patients' phones and watches between visits, part of the push into health care that Tim Cook,...

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