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?
Five Local Teachers are Lucky CalRTA Grant Winners
The students of five local teachers will see some new gadgets, games and gizmos in their classrooms before the school year ends, thanks to the California Retired Teachers Association’s State and Division 33 Teacher Grant programs.
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.
