Month: March 2022

In the coming months, America could reach a point when it has more Covid-19 vaccines than people want. Between efforts from the federal government and “The next Covid-19 vaccine hurdle: Convincing millions of Americans they want the shot”

This winter is brutal. The cold weather has made it hard to socialize outdoors, coronavirus variants are spreading, and the US is about to surpass “How to make this winter not totally suck, according to psychologists”

We’ve reached half a million deaths from the coronavirus in the US. But most of these deaths — and the grueling medical ordeals leading up “What it’s like to die from Covid-19”

A panel of expert advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted unanimously on Friday afternoon to recommend the one-dose Covid-19 vaccine developed by “FDA advisers unanimously recommend Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine”

The Senate on Wednesday took an important step forward on limiting emissions — and meeting its commitments to curb global warming — by voting to “The Senate just took a step toward actually lowering US greenhouse gas emissions”

The Covid-19 pandemic now appears to be the worst it has ever been, with daily new cases worldwide topping 800,000 several times over the past “Will Covid-19 vaccines protect you against variants? 9 questions about variants, answered.”

The Biden administration has announced that it will work with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to negotiate a deal to suspend intellectual property rights associated “Biden agreed to waive vaccine patents. But will that help get doses out faster?”

The world may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths by a staggering margin, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation “How the world missed more than half of all Covid-19 deaths”

There’s a scene in The West Wing’s second season in which one of the protagonists is told a Chinese satellite is falling to Earth, but “The falling Chinese space rocket is a policy failure”

While here in the US some are tentatively removing their masks and resuming small outdoor gatherings, others around the world are searching for air. In “Why India needs oxygen more urgently than vaccines”