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    Is Biden Declaring ‘Independence From the Coronavirus’ Too Soon?

    “There’s no return to normalcy for us,” said Sabila Khan, 42, of Jersey City, N.J., who created a Facebook support group after her father...

    Delta Variant Not Driving Hospitalization Surge in England, Data Shows

    The Delta variant, which is now responsible for most coronavirus infections in England, is not driving a surge of new hospitalizations there, according to...

    Stress and Burnout Still Plague Front-Line Health Care Workers as Pandemic Eases

    The interactions she has with Covid patients, many of them African American, often leave her shaken. She recalled a recent exchange with a woman...

    Behind Biden’s Pledge to Share 80 Million Vaccine Doses

    WASHINGTON — When a commercial plane carrying 2.5 million doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine took off on Wednesday from Dallas for Islamabad, Pakistan, federal...

    Are masks coming back? The Delta variant has some different officials rethinking precautions.

    In May, federal health officials in the United States said that fully vaccinated people no longer needed to mask up, even indoors. The advice...

    Turn Your Phone Into a Fitness Coach

    Ready to get outside this summer and get fit? Your smartphone’s hardware, its software and an app store full of programs can help lead...

    As the Virus Rages, Putin Pushes Russians to Get a (Russian) Vaccine

    MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin urged Russians to get vaccinated against the coronavirus on Wednesday — his most extensive comments on the matter...

    Las vacunas de Pfizer y Moderna podrían generar una inmunidad duradera, según científicos

    Las vacunas fabricadas por Pfizer-BioNTech y Moderna generan una reacción inmunitaria persistente en el organismo que puede proteger contra el coronavirus durante años, informó...

    How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

    By and large, the American food supply is quite safe, but food safety specialists keep their eyes on certain pathogens, both bacteria and viruses,...

    Why You Still Might Want to Have a Home Covid Test on Hand

    Rapid antigen tests are the least expensive (about $12 per test) and are available in retail stores and online. (They typically aren’t covered by...

    Training the Next Generation of Indigenous Data Scientists

    “Native DNA is so sought after that people are looking for proxy data, and one of the big proxy data is the microbiome” Mr....

    ‘It’s Tough to Get Out’: How Caribbean Medical Schools Fail Their Students

    Last summer, when Dr. Sneha Sheth went online to begin filling out applications for residency — the next stage of her training after medical...

    Scientist Finds Early Coronavirus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted

    “These additional data will play a big role in that effort,” Dr. Worobey said.It’s not clear why this valuable information went missing in the...

    Mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines provides strong protection, according to a preliminary study.

    Early results from a British vaccine study suggest that mixing different brands of vaccines can provoke a protective immune response against Covid-19. In the...

    Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Are Likely to Produce Long-Lasting Immunity, Study Suggests

    The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body that may protect against the coronavirus for years,...

    Air Pollution’s Invisible Toll on Your Health

    President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan calling for huge investments in clean energy, public transportation and electric vehicles would do a lot more than slow...