Health
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Four Americans Were Infected With a Virus Variant Seen in Mink
In the first year of the pandemic, at least four people in Michigan were infected with a version of the…
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Is Covid More Dangerous Than Driving? How Scientists Are Parsing Covid Risks.
Like it or not, the choose-your-own-adventure period of the pandemic is upon us. Mask mandates have fallen. Some free testing…
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India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
An ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has found…
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A New Covid Breath Test Holds Promise, but Wide Use May Still Be Far Off
Coronavirus infections might soon be flagged with a puff of exhaled breath, after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the…
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This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — For centuries, they called the foreboding building on a hill above this capital city the Kissy…
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An uptick in U.S. virus cases is concerning but not surprising, Fauci says.
The uptick in new U.S. coronavirus cases in recent days is concerning, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said…
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Medicare Officially Limits Coverage of Aduhelm to Patients in Clinical Trials
For the past few months, Medicare officials have been inundated with impassioned pleas about how to handle coverage of the…
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The C.D.C. will undergo a comprehensive re-evaluation, the agency’s director said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will undergo a monthlong comprehensive review and evaluation, a first step in modernizing…
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Cuts in Britain Could Cause a Covid Data Drought
The British government on Friday shut down or scaled back a number of its Covid surveillance programs, curtailing the collection…
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House Passes Bill to Limit Cost of Insulin to $35 a Month
WASHINGTON — A bill to limit the cost of insulin to $35 a month for most Americans who depend on…