Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Coronavirus
07/16/2021
Convincing the Skeptics
Vaccine resisters can’t be persuaded if they feel disrespected.
07/18/2021
The Pandemic Safety Net Is Coming Apart. Now What?
The eviction moratorium expires at the end of the month. Unemployment enhancements after that. And then the student loan pause, food stamp provisions and more. Here’s advice on how to cope.
07/15/2021
Opinion: We learned from the financial crisis. We can learn from the pandemic.
We are now nearly a year and a half into the pandemic. Enough time has passed to start looking back and drawing lessons, especially when comparing it with the last great jolt to the international system — the global financial crisis. Did we learn any lessons from 2008?
07/15/2021
What Could Go Right? Cancer’s big decline
Plus: Asthma attacks plummet, a “holy grail” for diabetics, and more
07/14/2021
Opinion: Vaxxed or axed: To protect patients, every health care worker must be vaccinated
Masks are off. Theaters and indoor dining are back. Life seems to be returning to normal. And yet the highly transmissible and maybe more deadly Delta variant is spreading quickly, accounting for half of new Covid-19 cases in the U.S. and causing surges in nearly half of all states.
07/10/2021
Opinion:There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing
In late June, over 15,000 vaccinated people packed in to watch the Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden. When the band brought the comedian Dave Chappelle onstage to sing the Radiohead song “Creep,” the audience erupted in the closest thing I’ve seen to rapture in a solid year and a half.
07/13/2021
Vaccination burnout?
Delta variant spurs countries to speed up shots.
07/12/2021
Most fully vaccinated people who get Covid delta infections are asymptomatic, WHO says
Covid hospitalizations are rising in some parts of the world, mostly where vaccination rates are low and the highly contagious delta variant is spreading.
07/13/2021
EU approves first stage of COVID rescue plan
EU finance ministers have signed off on economic recovery plans for 12 of the bloc's 27 members. Though primarily a response to the pandemic, the funds are also supposed to be spent modernizing economies.
07/12/2021
Taiwan tech giants Foxconn and TSMC to buy 10m Covid jabs
Taiwanese firms Foxconn, which makes devices for Apple, and chip giant TSMC brokered the agreements for the BioNTech vaccine, worth $350m (£252m). Taiwan has been trying for months to buy the vaccine from Germany's BioNTech and blames China for blocking a deal.
07/07/2021
COVID-19 vaccine rollout fast enough to save nearly 300,000, study says
The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign prevented up to 279,000 deaths and 1.25 million hospitalizations, according to a study released Wednesday.
07/08/2021
