COVID-19
Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?
In 2022, Jacinda Ardern, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, was approached by a stranger in an airport bathroom. Ardern was alone, washing her hands, when a middle-aged...
The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures
On June 26, 2020, three months after the coronavirus pandemic had seized the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents about sixty-seven thousand pediatric physicians, issued guidance...
“An Unfinished Film” Puts the Pandemic in the Spotlight
The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be as bad for movies as it was for movie theatres. Few films that confront the pandemic head on have illuminated the experience, and...
Would you get your childhood vaccines again? This woman did
A Texas woman has described the life-threatening circumstances that led to her getting all of her childhood vaccinations again.There has been a noticeable decline in the number of Americans...
COVID map reveals latest data on US cases
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed the latest figures for COVID-19 in the United States, based on data from the week ending...
How many lives were lost to COVID-19? A look back nearly 5 years later
What's NewDeaths from COVID-19 have slowed significantly but continue adding to a tally of more than 7 million deaths from the virus in the nearly five years since the...
A Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Home Birth
A paradox of giving birth is that you are irrefutably there—no one has ever been more there!—and yet not there at all. In all but one of Shannon’s images...
COVID map update reveals new states with “very high” wastewater activity
There are an increasing number of states across the U.S. where "very high" levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 are present in wastewater.According to the U.S. Centers for...
Covid treatment recall issued after glass found in drug
Amidst a resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the United States, pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of its antiviral drug Veklury, commonly known as remdesivir,...
Harvey Weinstein is in recovery following emergency heart surgery
Harvey Weinstein was “rushed” on Sunday night to Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he underwent a procedure as well as heart surgery on Monday, his representatives said. The...
