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When is it time to wind down COVID precautions & restrictions? -- The right and wrong way to use, and reuse, those N95 masks -- Omicron's annoying little brother -- Everyone panic, alcohol supplies are running low
More countries in Europe are easing COVID restrictions; and several U.S. cities and states that had tough COVID precautions in place are gradually li…
4 years, 1 month ago
The unenforced indoor COVID vaccine mandate in Los Angeles -- What good are COVID tests when results come back weeks later?!
It was supposed to be iron clad and strictly enforced: the COVID vaccine mandate on indoor spaces in Los Angeles meant that if you wanted to go to a …
4 years, 1 month ago
The COVID vaccine booster shot effort in the U.S. needs a boost -- Why are so many immunocompromised people being turned away from pharmacies for their 4th COVID vaccine dose?
The COVID vaccine booster shot effort is in need of............a boost.
The numbers of booster shots going into arms of Americans has slowed considera…
4 years, 1 month ago
Omicron might have a little brother -- Ethical debate rages over Boston hospital that's denying a patient a heart transplant because he won't take the COVID vaccine -- Restaurants, battered & bruised, are barely hanging on
What if the Omicron variant had a little brother? Well, it kind of does.
Scientists are paying attention to a variant of this troublesome COVID varia…
4 years, 1 month ago
California could soon add the COVID vaccine to list of required inoculations for young students -- At home COVID tests now covered by insurance, if you can find any -- Getting closer to understanding Long COVID "brain fog"
School aged kids here in California must receive about seven different inoculations before they're allowed in classrooms--they include vaccines again…
4 years, 1 month ago
Should teenagers be allowed to call their own shots on getting vaccinated against COVID? -- The pandemic-induced home schooling rush -- The Great Resignation.....or The Great Shift?
Teenagers are now cleared by the CDC and FDA to be vaccinated against COVID-19; but what if their parents won't let them get the shots? A bill in Cal…
4 years, 1 month ago
Marking 2 years since the first novel coronavirus infection was reported here in the United States
Two years ago on this very day...life in the United States would change as we know it. The CDC confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the country. I…
4 years, 1 month ago
Could we have been fooling ourselves about the milder COVID illnesses from omicron? -- Is an upside to this winter COVID surge a move from pandemic.....to endemic?
We've been told for a few weeks now that the omicron COVID variant is producing milder illnesses in the people unlucky enough to catch it--and indeed…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Supreme Court strikes down Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses. Plus, nurses protest in California
The Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees. But the justices are allowing a mandate f…
4 years, 1 month ago
Insurance companies will start covering at-home Covid tests, but can you find them? Plus, the Omicron surge might finally be peaking.
Private insurance will start covering the cost of at-home Covid-19 tests. Will it be easy to get reimbursed? And will it remain hard to find them?
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4 years, 1 month ago