Month: March 2022

There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, infecting people and, hopefully only “We have to accept some risk of Covid-19”

Last month, at the start of a fourth Covid-19 wave in the US, a nurse in a Seattle-area intensive-care unit announced her resignation on Twitter. “Why it’s so hard to be a nurse in America, according to two nurses”

Every several years — sometimes just once a decade — when the rains come in just the right amounts and at just the right times, “Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be”

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed, and with it, so has the effectiveness of the vaccines. The bottom line remains the same: The mRNA vaccines from “What we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant”

Since Covid-19 patients started showing up at clinics and hospitals a year and a half ago, doctors and researchers have been hard at work trying “How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment”

Nearly nine months after the first Americans received their shots, the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration for “What full FDA approval for Covid-19 vaccines really means”

The origins of the novel coronavirus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic remain a mystery. US intelligence agencies have now completed a 90-day probe into the “The lab leak hypothesis — true or not — should teach us a lesson”

Another explosive wildfire season is underway in California, with more than a million acres already burned in 2021. While still short of the unprecedented 2020 “What’s causing California’s unprecedented wildfires”

During the pandemic, I’ve spent a lot of time alone. I live by myself. I work from home. At times, I experienced fits of fidgetiness “What an enormous global study can tell us about feeling better during the pandemic”

On Monday, the United Nations announced an environmental and public health milestone: the end of the use of leaded gasoline in automobiles and road vehicles “One of the worst public health dangers of the past century has finally been eradicated”