Two California public health officials who pressed forward with aggressive measures to contain covid-19 even while enduring death threats and harassment will be honored with the 2021 PEN/Benenson Courage Award from PEN America, the group announced Friday. Mimi Hall and…
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Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go
Promise: “I'm never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We're going to beat this virus. We're going to get it under control, I promise you. “ On the campaign trail last year, Joe Biden promised that, if elected…
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Want fries with that vaccine? Even at a fast-food restaurant, pop-up clinics see slow traffic
A few months ago, the boxy, teal truck parked outside a McDonald's in this Inland Empire city might have drawn hundreds of people willing to stand in line for hours under the scorching sun. The truck is San Bernardino County's…
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The WHO didn’t reverse its position on kids and Covid vaccines
A social media post circulating on Facebook and Instagram claims that the World Health Organization recently flipped its policy recommendation about children receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. "The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine….
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Rapid Point-of-Care Testing Using Screen-Printed Electrodes from Metrohm DropSens
Point-of-care (POC) testing with screen-printed electrodes allows rapid testing of populations for viral outbreaks – at affordable costs, without the need for trained specialists and/or complicated equipment. Image credit: Metrohm Middle East A free white paper from Metrohm puts a…
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With roots in civil rights, Community health centers push for equity in the pandemic
In the 1960s, health care across the Mississippi Delta was sparse and much of it was segregated. Some hospitals were dedicated to Black patients, but they often struggled to stay afloat. At the height of the civil rights movement, young…
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Analysis: Mounting pressure on China about Covid ‘lab leak’ could backfire
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to determine whether the Covid virus, or a near ancestor, emerged from a cave, a live-animal market, a farm — or a secretive Chinese laboratory. But it's doubtful this probe will yield…
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For Kurdish Americans in Nashville, a beloved leader’s death prompts vaccine push
On a sloppy spring day in mid-March, hundreds of Kurdish Americans gathered in a field outside Nashville, Tennessee, under a sea of black umbrellas. Some of the men carried a stretcher to an open grave, where a yellow backhoe waited….
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California and Texas took different routes to vaccination. Who’s ahead?
California and Texas, the country's two most populous states, have taken radically different approaches to the pandemic and the vaccination campaign to end it. California has trumpeted its reliance on science and policies it says are aimed at improving social…
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Sexually active individuals under age 30 should be tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea
Anyone sexually active under age 30 should be offered testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea, according to a new guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the…
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