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    My Patients Need Me. Can I Quit?

    I live in a city that offers Covid vaccines to volunteers who have worked 15 hours at a vaccination site. Not surprisingly, the demand...

    Covid-Linked Syndrome in Children Is Growing and Cases Are More Severe

    “We’re now getting more of these MIS-C kids, but this time, it just seems that a higher percentage of them are really critically ill,”...

    Piecing Together the Next Pandemic

    Covid-19 arrived in Cambodia a year ago, on Jan. 23, when a Chinese national flew in from Wuhan, the city where the illness was...

    How Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics

    “Had we had it set up in 2019, then when this virus hit the U.S., we would have had ready access to data that...

    ‘Right Now Feels So Long and Without Any End in Sight’

    As the reality of an indefinite psychological marathon descended, many journal writers began to count their blessings, in entries tinged with both gratitude and...

    There’s No ‘One Size Fits All’ Treatment for Asthma

    For example, Dr. Wechsler said, “Even what is used to clean can be irritating to a person with asthma.”For some people with asthma, a...

    Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics

    “Had we had it set up in 2019, then when this virus hit the U.S., we would have had ready access to data that...

    New Yorkers With Many Health Conditions Are Now Eligible for Vaccination

    New Yorkers with chronic health conditions that made them newly eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine flooded a state website and call center Sunday morning,...

    7 Virus Variants Found in U.S. Carrying the Same Mutation

    As Americans anxiously watch variants first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa spread in the United States, scientists are finding a number...

    Despair Deepens for Young People as Pandemic Drags On

    The situation was so serious, he said, that his team did not send children home for Christmas, as it usually would. Isolation has also...

    New Yorkers with chronic health conditions can now sign up for the vaccine.

    Starting Sunday, New Yorkers with chronic health conditions like obesity and hypertension can schedule their appointments to get the Covid-19 vaccine at state-run mass...

    W.H.O. Researcher on His Trip to China Seeking Virus Origins

    What about the cases that appeared before the outbreak in the seafood market?There was other spread going on outside of Huanan market. There are...

    Sharing Unexpected Acts of Kindness

    Has this happened to you? You’re going about your day, minding your business. Then you suddenly spot a caring interaction that lifts your spirits,...

    Ways to Enjoy Theater Virtually

    In another time, the highly anticipated spring season of Broadway would be beginning. Performers would be dropping their scripts, fans would be planning their...

    David Katzenstein, AIDS Researcher With Focus on Africa, Dies at 69

    This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.Dr. David Katzenstein may have...

    FDA Agrees Moderna Can Increase Vaccine Supply in Each Vial

    WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has informed the drugmaker Moderna that it can put up to 40 percent more coronavirus vaccine into...