Why is the U.S.-Canada border still closed to vaccinated people? I can fly to Europe if I want to. But I can't drive to Niagara Falls. The point of vaccinations is that you have done what you need to do to protect yourself and others....
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Lindsay Beyerstein explores an issue that has vexed many of us recently: why is it so hard for people to believe that COVID-19 came from bats and instead have all.
Economists have a special power to cause problems if they choose to be villains. This is because of our twin obsessions with money and data. They are seen to have.
It looks like Cuba has developed a vaccine that may be as effective as Moderna or Pfizer. In a measure of its ambitious efforts to be vaccine self-reliant, Cuba has named one of its homegrown jabs Abdala, after a famous dramatic verse by independence hero...
We truly are two nations. From Florida and Texas: The Republican governors of Florida and Texas are headed toward showdowns with some of the world's largest cruise lines, including Norwegian.
COVID-19 killed so many food workers who died without the larger world really being aware of what was going on, so long as they could buy their ground beef without.
Good piece here on one of the ways that the pandemic intersects with the criminal injustice system: Here in San Francisco, over 100 people are still languishing in jail awaiting trial past the last day in which they must be legally brought to trial —...
It was a bad idea to make the vaccination cards paper and thus easily falsifiable. We need a real sophisticated vaccination proof system that can't be counterfeited. There's lots of.
The framing of this Post story on Cuba developing COVID vaccines that will go far to immunize the world's poorer population is so frustrating. Titled "Against the odds, Cuba could.
Wow, these vaccines, I mean they barely work and the world is obviously going to never get back to normal ever. An estimated 10% to 30% of people who get COVID-19 suffer from lingering symptoms of the disease, or what's known as "long COVID."Judy Dodd,...
The utter failure at all things that is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is really coming to light as true COVID death rates come out of the country. Mexico’s government acknowledged.
(Photo by Jdidi Wassim / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Mercifully this has not happened at my employer, but colleges and universities around the country have cynically used COVID.