Period Poverty and the Pandemic: A Forgotten Crisis
Have you ever had to make a decision about whether to buy food or tampons? Use a sock as a pad? Or to wear tight-fitting pants to bed so your makeshift pad doesn’t move around too much and stain your sheets?
Pfizer hopes to submit little-kid vaccine data by early June
Pfizer now hopes to tell U.S. regulators how well its COVID-19 vaccine works in the littlest kids by late May or early June. Pfizer is testing three extra-small doses of its vaccine in children under 5 after two shots didn’t prove quite strong enough.
CDC restates recommendation for masks on planes, trains
U.S. health officials on Tuesday restated their recommendation that Americans wear masks on planes, trains and buses, despite a court ruling last month that struck down a national mask mandate on public transportation.
Coronavirus Files: Moderna files for child vax, White House to lower Paxlovid hurdles
President Biden’s plans to end pandemic-era restrictions on U.S. entry by asylum seekers are in jeopardy after a federal judge said he would issue a two-week restraining order on any change to migrant entry.
Racial split on COVID-19 endures as restrictions ease in US
Black and Hispanic Americans remain far more cautious in their approach to COVID-19 than white Americans, recent polls show, reflecting diverging preferences on how to deal with the pandemic as federal, state and local restrictions fall by the wayside.
