Science

December 31st, 2020
Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.
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December 27th, 2020
When 2020 passes into the history books, it will carry more superlatives than a high school yearbook — and none of them good. Most deadly, hottest, most stressful, worst.
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December 27th, 2020
The country this year which has been most ravaged by Covid-19 – losing a shocking 1,600 people in every million to the virus at the time of writing – is Belgium. Source: Lockdown: a deadly, failed experiment – spiked
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December 27th, 2020
I am an ER physician married to another ER physician, and COVID-19 has rocked my world. With two small children to care for at home, we had to draw on new skills as we contemplated and prepared for the care of our children should we not survive the disease. Now we are on the precipice of the unfathomable: a vaccine...
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December 22nd, 2020
Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please tell them that no act in modern times has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more than the lockdowns going on right now?
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December 22nd, 2020
Medical bioethics is treacherous territory. At the extreme, it involves a person deciding who should live and who should die. Simply engaging in this calculus is morally damaging, and so, when presented with tough choices, we are better served by simple, maybe even arbitrary, rules rather than complex calculations.
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December 17th, 2020
By: Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta – wsj.com – December 17, 2020 The approval of several Covid-19 vaccines is an impressive technological development that should rapidly end the lockdowns and allow normal life to resume. But authorities like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates argue that lockdown restrictions may have to continue through the fall and even into 2022, notwithstanding the catastrophic harms...
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December 16th, 2020
Just months after the COVID-19 virus was detected and entered into our vocabulary, a successful vaccine has now been developed. As of late last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided emergency authorization for the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus. This is an unprecedented event in medical history. In terms of technology, it hearkens back to the Apollo moon...
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December 14th, 2020
Before I set the stage and lay out the most prominent dimensions of our current crisis, let me answer the question I ask in the title of this article, namely, can America survive this perfect storm?
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December 14th, 2020
Many school districts in the United States have opted to switch to virtual learning during the coronavirus pandemic, but some school districts are fighting to preserve in-person learning, with one district finding “every excuse” they can to “stay open.”
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