by Xurui Tan | Jul 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured
The Saratoga Springs City School District in upstate New York has been working hard to reopen its schools since early May, with completely in-person learning as the ultimate goal, officials say. But Superintendent of Schools Michael Patton said this week that a hybrid...
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 9, 2020 | Business & Tech, Coronavirus, Featured
Countries such as South Korea have curbed the coronavirus by using contact-tracing phone apps, but the U.S. has stalled in its own efforts because of privacy concerns and other hurdles. One of the biggest challenges, experts told a congressional panel this week, is...
by Hannah Farrow | Jul 8, 2020 | Education
In early June, New York City health officials offered guidelines on how to have safe sex during the coronavirus pandemic. The document — which attracted a considerable amount of attention on social media — noted that “people will and should have sex” despite the...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 7, 2020 | Featured, Health
A new effort to tackle the long-standing social isolation and loneliness problems that older adults, people with disabilities and veterans often experience, which has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, has been launched. It’s called the MENTAL Health...
by Alyk Russell Kenlan | Jul 2, 2020 | Health, Science + Technology
The directors of the nation’s top public health agencies reiterated Thursday that they expect to be able to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine by early next year. The heads of the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the...
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 2, 2020 | Featured, Politics
Female veterans called for federally funded abortions through the VA on Wednesday, reviving a decades-long debate on the subject. During the House Veterans Affairs Committee meeting of the Health and Women Veterans Task Force, Chairwoman Julia Brownley, D-Calif.,...
