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A new attitude toward the pandemic seems to be taking shape. But we’ve been here before.
Fatigued, frustrated and frazzled by five surges over two years, some parts of the U.S. population have decided to simply live with the coronavirus and move on.
N95, KN95 masks provide best protection against covid, CDC study shows
The study shows that wearing any kind of mask in indoor public places significantly lowers the odds of becoming infected with the coronavirus, with N95 or KN95 masks providing the best protection.
There’s a new version of omicron but so far it doesn’t appear to be more dangerous
The descendant, known as BA.2, is spreading. The World Health Organization recommended Monday that health officials evaluate it separately from the original version of omicron, known as BA.1.
Lawsuit alleges bullying tactics by transplant executives in bid to revamp system
Plaintiffs in a two-year-old lawsuit say emails show executives worked behind the scenes on a policy that would take more human livers from rural areas and send them to big-city transplant centers.
As covid persists, nurses are leaving staff jobs — and tripling their salaries as travelers
Travel nurses can make a year’s pay in three or four months
In Larry Nassar’s shadow, a larger sex abuse case at the University of Michigan
More than 950 people allege they were molested by a campus physician in what may turn out to be the largest such case in U.S. history.
Former surgeon resigns from National Academies panel on transplant reform
The retired transplant surgeon recently accepted a position with a consulting company
Biden administration moves to stave off shortages of monoclonal antibodies
Soaring demand in the past two months, especially in the South, will probably lead to supply cutbacks in some places.
CDC guidance now official: Pregnant women should get coronavirus vaccine
Just 23 percent of pregnant women have received at least one shot of vaccine. The CDC advice applies to all three vaccines, though the one-shot Johnson & Johnson version has not been studied as much as the versions produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
His voice silenced for years, a man can now communicate using only the electrical impulses from his brain
The advance is believed to mark the first time the power of speech has been restored to someone who lost it because of neurological damage.
