Coronavirus Files: White House promises test-to-treat while Ukraine invasion threatens pandemic progress
There’s nothing like war to hasten the spread of a plague. It’s impossible to maintain handwashing, social distancing and masking in the middle of a siege. The war in the Ukraine makes COVID-19 spikes in the region “inevitable,” writes Alice Park at Time; those surges in turn could provide fertile ground for new variants to emerge.
Coronavirus Files: Booster efficacy wanes; new antibody may help fill treatment gap
Some commentators see a return to normal just around the corner at last and the CDC is reportedly preparing looser mask guidelines. But life may never go back to normal for a growing group of people left with lingering health problems from the coronavirus.
Coronavirus Files: States drop masks; FDA pulls plug on early vax authorization for young kids
People of color have had a harder time during the pandemic across the United States, but the state of Texas was particularly slow to offer data on the racial breakdown of cases, deaths and vaccinations.
Coronavirus Files: FDA plans to vaccinate youngest children; Spotify misinformation stirs controversy
People of color are at least twice as likely to die of COVID as white people. In the Black community, the loss of so many lives also means the loss of oral history, as Janell Ross writes at Time.
Over 40 Percent of Drivers with Past-year Alcohol and Cannabis Use Report DUI
In a study of drivers with past year alcohol and cannabis use, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that two in five drivers reporting alcohol and cannabis in the past year drove under the influence of alcohol, cannabis or both.
