In September, 865,000 American women quit working permanently or indefinitely, compared to just 216,000 men. The toll of COVID-19 is so much wider than physical health, and that toll is being paid overwhelmingly by women, who are both more likely to work in industries impacted by the pandemic and more likely to find themselves saddled […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday attacked the media for its focus on COVID-19 “CASES, CASES, CASES” after the nation hit an all-time high of more than 83,000 daily infections on Friday. He said without evidence that the coverage was a plot to “create fear” ahead of Election Day. Trump told a campaign rally later in North […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved the antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19. Remdesivir was originally developed to treat Ebola virus, and it was one of the drugs President Trump took while hospitalized for COVID-19. Back in May, the FDA gave remdesivir an emergency-use authorization to treat patients hospitalized with severe […]
The idea of using herd immunity to address the COVID-19 pandemic comes up again and again. But Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, argued against relying on a herd immunity strategy to protect us from COVID-19 in a recent interview with Good Morning America. Herd immunity is an […]
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just updated and expanded its definition of who a “close contact” of someone with COVID-19 is. Previously, the CDC defined a close contact as someone who had spent 15 minutes within six feet of someone else who had a confirmed case of COVID-19. Now the CDC […]