http://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/abortion-pills-texas-prescription-doctors.html What if You Had Abortion Pills in Your Medicine Cabinet? Oct. 13, 2021 Credit...Marta Monteiro By Patrick Adams Mr. Adams is a freelance journalist who covers public health. In 2018, the Austria-based nonprofit Aid Access began offering Americans a new service: For the first time, pregnant people could obtain abortion pills by mail, with a prescription from … Continue reading How to bypass TX-type abortion laws — always have pills on hand →

http://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/movies/selma-blair-documentary-multiple-sclerosis.html Selma Blair Wants You to See Her Living With Multiple Sclerosis The actress puts herself out there in “Introducing, Selma Blair,” an unflinching documentary that she hopes can help others. By Dave Itzkoff, October 13, 2021 Selma Blair could only talk for a half-hour in our first session. That was as long as she trusted her … Continue reading Selma Blair’s documentary is unflinching but shares human condition →

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-clues-emerge-about-whether-vaccines-can-help-fight-long-covid-11633957200?mod=hp_featst_pos5 New Clues Emerge About Whether Vaccines Can Help Fight Long Covid Recent studies suggest vaccination helps reduce the likelihood of developing longer-term symptoms after a Covid-19 infection, and may help some people with symptoms feel better By Sumathi Reddy Oct. 11, 2021 9:00 am ET Millions of people suffer from symptoms of long Covid, doctors estimate. … Continue reading New clues emerge about whether vaccines can help fight long COVID →

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y? Heart-inflammation risk from Pfizer COVID vaccine is very low Two studies from Israel quantify the risk of myocarditis following the Pfizer–BioNTech shot, with one suggesting the chance of developing the condition is about one in 50,000. Smriti Mallapaty, October 8, 2021 A 16-year-old boy receives a shot of the Pfizer vaccine at Clalit Health … Continue reading Heart inflammation risk from Pfizer COVID vaccine very low →

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02558-8? Why easing COVID restrictions could prompt a fierce flu rebound As pandemic restrictions ease, other respiratory viruses are returning in unexpected ways. Nicola Jones, 7 October 2021 Influenza and other respiratory viruses were suppressed by measures intended to curb COVID.Credit: Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to have unusual and unexpected effects on a … Continue reading Easing COVID restrictions may prompt a fierce flu rebound →

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/another-winter-of-covid? Another Winter of COVID By Dhruv Khullar October 10, 2021 The coronavirus pandemic in the United States appears, for the moment, to be in retreat. Since the start of September, daily cases have dropped by a third, and daily hospitalizations have fallen by more than a quarter. covid deaths, which generally lag behind infections by a few … Continue reading How is COVID going to impact this winter? →

06 October 2021 Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air by Tosin Thompson An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air. Research at a hospital swamped by people with COVID-19 has confirmed that portable air filters effectively remove SARS-CoV-2 particles from the air — … Continue reading Good news — portable HEPA filter works in real life to clean COVID from the air in hospitals →

In landmark decision, WHO greenlights rollout in Africa of the first malaria vaccine RTS,S is safe and effective, panel concludes—but questions remain 6 OCT 20219:50 PMBY GRETCHEN VOGEL In a momentous and long-awaited decision, the World Health Organization (WHO) today recommended the wide rollout of a malaria vaccine to protect children in Africa. That opens … Continue reading Great news! First malaria vaccine will rollout in Africa but costs $5 →

https://slate.com/business/2021/09/biden-vaccine-mandate-right-call-5-reasons.html Five Extremely Simple Reasons Why Biden Made the Right Call Mandating Vaccines BY JORDAN WEISSMANNSEPT 10, 20216:19 PM Conservatives have collectively gone wild with rage and indignation over President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandate for private businesses, which will require large employers to make sure their workers have either been inoculated or get tested weekly. In the … Continue reading Vaccine mandate makes sense →

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/10/why-americans-wear-cloth-masks/620296/ Why Are Americans Still—Still!—Wearing Cloth Masks? It’s long past time for an upgrade.By Yasmin Tayag Patrick Zachmann / Magnum OCTOBER 4, 2021SHARE Every time I leave my apartment, I grab a mask from the stack by the door. After all these months of pandemic life, I’ve amassed a pretty big collection: Some are embroidered, while … Continue reading Why are Americans still wearing cloth masks? →