Does our child need to isolate? Can I use an at-home test on a baby? Your parenting pandemic questions answered.

With omicron exploding throughout the United States, many of the questions that have bedeviled caregivers for the length of the pandemic are taking on a new urgency. If we want our children to stay healthy, and not infect other friends, ( Read more... )

The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia

The vernacular of deprivation, control, and aspirational containment that pervaded the pop culture of the ‘90s and 2000s.

The Relentless Reality of Anti-Fatness in Fitness

A look at how we got to this point and where we go from here.

Fat-Bias Could Have Killed This Patient

- How a patient was misdiagnosed because ( Read more... )

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COVID at 2 Years: Preparing for a Different 'Normal'

How the Pandemic Led to Disarray ― and Discovery: The droplet dogma, changes in testing methods, and rapid publication

...True airborne spread of infections was thought to be rare. Infectious disease expert Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, listened to ( Read more... )

Fauci: 'Open Question' Whether Omicron Ends Pandemic

"It is an open question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus vaccination that everyone is hoping for because you have such a great deal of variability with new variants emerging," said Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the White House.

Fauci said his definition of " ( Read more... )

NHS Nurse Wins Dismissal Case Over Right to Wear Necklace with a Cross--from our colleagues across the pond. I swear you can't make this stuff up...

A nurse who refused on religious grounds to remove her necklace with a cross while on duty was discriminated against by her employer, a tribunal ruled.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust was found to have ( Read more... )

This is a dangerous time in the pandemic for people like me. Don’t forget us.
For the immunocompromised, covid fatigue poses a grave threat.

...I understand why anyone who is healthy, or better still, healthy and vaccinated, would be eager to let down their guard. Early data suggest omicron is less likely than other variants to lead to ( Read more... )

USPS just delivered a letter from an American soldier in Germany. It was 76 years late.

American soldier John Gonsalves was serving in Germany in the aftermath of World War II when he wrote a letter to his mother in Massachusetts in 1945. Last month, the U.S. Postal Service finally delivered the letter to his family - 76 years late.

Angelina “Jean” ( Read more... )

Could the Omicron Surge Hasten the Transition From Pandemic to Endemic?

The record-setting surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide - including more than one million new infections reported on January 3 - raises questions about whether the higher Omicron variant transmissibility will accelerate a transition from pandemic to endemic disease.

Furthermore, ( Read more... )

Breaking the Cycle of Exhaustion

(A wise person once said, "Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." To that I say, "Yeah, right."

Celebrities live what appears to be the perfect life with what seems like limitless money at their disposal, and even they have days where life just smacks them in the face. Without a doubt ( Read more... )

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