A racial divide persists in the nation’s vaccination campaign, with federal figures showing counties with higher percentages of Black residents having some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.
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Should parents hide negative feelings over the pandemic to protect their kids? Not really.
They should be authentic and normalize children’s emotional reactions while discussing such crises as the coronavirus. But they shouldn’t overwhelm children with their own fears.
Skywatch: What’s happening in the heavens in July
Venus and Mars will do a dance, while Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter sightings are also on the horizon.
Prohibited, unlisted, even dangerous ingredients turn up in dietary supplements
Consumers may think they’re safer or more “natural” than pharmaceuticals, but multiple studies show they are sometimes adulterated with medicines and unknown additives.
A doctor’s promise: I will share my own drinking struggles with my patients so they know I understand
Fear and shame prevented me from opening up and my patient died. I don’t want that to happen again.
Sepsis prediction tool used by hospitals misses many cases, study says. Firm that developed the tool disputes those findings.
Researchers used retrospective data to examine the widely used tool, which according to its developer has an 80 percent accuracy rate.
Federal health officials find vaccine benefits outweigh small cardiac risk for teens, young adults
They stress the advantages of vaccination despite the “likely association” between second dose and an extremely rare heart condition.
American Red Cross warns of ‘severe’ blood shortage as more in U.S. return to pre-pandemic life
As people return to pre-pandemic activities, that also means getting surgeries and procedures that require blood products.
Seattle scientist digs up deleted coronavirus genetic data, adding fuel to the covid origin debate
NIH said a researcher asked for data, already published, to be deleted from a database.
Spread of delta coronavirus variant exposes poorly vaccinated regions to renewed danger
Now at 20 percent of new U.S. infections, the variant that overwhelmed India and Britain threatens some parts of the country again, experts say
