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Tag: vaccines

  • Kintsugi
  • January 7, 2022January 7, 2022

Vaccinated and test positive? What to know about omicron, COVID for this holiday season.

Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY As COVID-19 cases surge, fueled by the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus, Americans wonder how to approach the holidays a

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  • Prof Patty
  • March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Five things that must happen to get people vaccinated

BY PETER SULLIVAN – 03/13/21 06:55 AM EST Increase vaccine supply Get shots in arms, including in hard-to-reach communities Overcome vaccine hesitancy: An NPR-PBS-Marist poll relea

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 31, 2020December 31, 2020

Phase 1a, 1b or 1c? Do You Know Your Coronavirus Vaccine Group?

Group 1a is health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes, regardless of age. Group 1b is elderly people who are 75 or older and essential frontline workers, i.e. people with jobs in

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 31, 2020October 31, 2020

I volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial in New Jersey: Here’s what it’s been like since the shot

Lindy Washburn, NorthJersey.com  10/14/2020 On the afternoon of Sept. 22, I became a data point in the search for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. That’s when I received the fir

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 31, 2020

Effective Flu Shots

4 Things You Can Do to Make Your Flu Shot More Effective Get vaccinated by the end of October for it to be most effective, according to the CDC A study in International Journal of Be

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NY Times

  • Mussolini Would Have Loved Trump’s Ballroom
  • Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
  • Cuba Acknowledges Talks with Trump Officials For the First Time
  • The Death Penalty Is Indefensible. It’s Also on the Rise.
  • A Dangerous Bottleneck

NPR

  • NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch
  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
  • 2025 saw relatively fewer natural disasters. Will you get a break on home insurance?
  • GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next?
  • Epstein paid for a conference of top scientists in 2006. His motives are now clear

The Progressive

  • The Fight for Palestine in Higher Education Continues, Despite Institutional Backlash
  • Join the Fight to Protect the Ocean
  • Gutting Discrimination Enforcement in Education: What Could Go Wrong?
  • Israeli NGO Bans Threaten Gaza’s Humanitarian Lifeline
  • Is Conversion Therapy Speech or Conduct?

FactCheck.org

  • Is the U.S. at ‘War’? Politicians Disagree
  • Trump’s Claim About the Obama Nuclear Deal and Iran’s Nuclear Development
  • Without Providing Evidence, Trump Pins School Bombing on Iran
  • Biden Makes Flawed Comparisons with Trump
  • FactChecking Claims in Casey Means’ Surgeon General Confirmation Hearing

Snopes.com

  • Posts claim Israel enacted law imposing 5-year prison sentence for posting Tel Aviv videos. There's no proof
  • Did Putin post that Netanyahu died in airstrike? Don't fall for rumor
  • Did Israel bomb North Korea's embassy in Iran? Fact-checking alleged Kim Jong Un quote
  • FBI warned California officials about Iranian drone threat, but says tip was unverified
  • Was Netanyahu killed in Iranian missile attack? Debunking claim

Tradeoffs

  • ‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
  • 'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care
  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care
  • As States and CDC Split on Vaccines, What's Next?
  • A Better Way to Care for Older Adults with Opioid Addiction

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