Public Health
New York Declares State of Emergency Over Polio Outbreak
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency over a polio outbreak in hopes of boosting vaccination rates in the state, according to a CBS News...
Detection of Polio in New York Raises Fears of ‘Silent’ Outbreak
The virus that causes polio has been discovered in New York City’s wastewater, raising concerns that the disease is quietly spreading among the unvaccinated, according to a New York Times...
Resurgent: First Polio Case in Nearly a Decade Alarms Americans
An unvaccinated adult in New York state has contracted polio, the first case in the United States in nearly a decade, the Associated Press has reported. County health officials confirmed...
Masked Military: The Army is Doubling Down on Face Masks Through 2021
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Prototypes of the APFU-M are in development and the Army is working with the United States Air Force and United States Marine Corps on their...
U.K. Residents Enjoy Some Health Freedoms that U.S. Residents Have to Do Without
Why are residents of the United Kingdom receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine before residents of the United States? Contrary to the myth that the U.S. health care sector is a free market,...
African-Americans are More Likely to Catch the Coronavirus. Here’s How to Change That
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the reality that health in the U.S. has glaring racial inequities. Since March, people of color have been more likely to get sick and more...
Should Businesses Be Liable for Spreading the Coronavirus? (Probably)
Congress may be close to a deal on another coronavirus bailout, but Senate Republican demands for liability protections for businesses remain a major obstacle. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has...
When Will Your Kids Get the COVID Vaccine? Your Questions, Answered
The first U.S. COVID-19 vaccines are expected in clinics in mid-December, and states are drawing up plans for who should get vaccinated first. But one important group is absent: children....
“Drug Lag”: While the FDA Thinks, People Suffer
The U.K’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced this morning that it has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine and expects to begin immunizing its population within a week. This vaccine, along...
Native American Reservations are Fighting the Pandemic – Often Alone
As the months roll by, the pandemic continues to hit Indigenous nations hard. But this phenomenon is not new. Epidemics have been part of colonialism since settlers arrived. Health inequities...
How Did China Beat the Coronavirus? In a Word: Social Distancing
I live in a democracy. But as Thanksgiving approaches, I find myself longing for the type of freedom I am seeing in China. People in China are able to move...
How Sewage Testing Can Help Fight COVID-19
We’re often hearing alerts for different areas after traces of coronavirus are found in the wastewater, or sewage. Most recently, fragments were detected at Benalla, in Victoria’s north, and at...