Omicron and a Collapsed Healthcare System: This is How COVID Closes 2021
By Jenny Manrique Almost two years after COVID-19 pandemic started, 270 million people have been infected with the virus and 5.3 million have died worldwide. Cases in the United…
It’s Time to Ask Santa for Crutches and Catheters
By Rachana Pradhan America’s hospitals, strained by nearly two years of fighting the covid-19 pandemic, are now scrounging for basic medical supplies. In another consequence of the…
Is It Time to Change the Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’?
By Victoria Knight As more indoor venues require proof of vaccination for entrance and with winter — as well as omicron, a new covid variant — looming, scientists and…
Omicron and Other Coronavirus Variants: What You Need to Know
By Louis Jacobson Americans, already weary of a pandemic nearly two years long, were dealt a new blow during the long Thanksgiving weekend: the announcement that a new…
‘Millions of Workers Don’t Have Access to Paid Sick Leave’
By Rae Ellen Bichell Economists and public health experts alike say paid sick leave is an essential tool — like testing, masks and vaccines — in the…
Employers Expand Mental Health Benefits Due to Pandemic
By Michelle Andrews As the covid-19 pandemic burns through its second year, the path forward for American workers remains unsettled, with many continuing to work from home while…
How One Health Center Is Leading on Kid Covid Shots
By Giles Bruce As the medical assistant put on rubber gloves and readied the syringe, 5-year-old Victoria Macias, wearing a pink Minnie Mouse mask and white blouse,…
Vaccination Protects Children from the Dangers of COVID-19
Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH Our state experienced the most devastating point of the pandemic last winter. More than 21,000 Californians were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last…
Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care, Some Never Came Out
By Christina Jewett They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis. They left with covid-19 — if they left at all….
What Do We Really Know About Vaccine Effectiveness?
By Julie Appleby The politicization of covid vaccines — and, well, just about everything else having to do with the pandemic — has led to confusion, if not…