Health
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As Covid Shots for Kids Stall, Appeals Are Aimed at Wary Parents
For weeks, the school principal had been imploring Kemika Cosey: Would she please allow her children, 7 and 11, to…
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Yes, Omicron Is Loosening Its Hold. But the Pandemic Has Not Ended.
After a frenetic few weeks when the Omicron variant of the coronavirus seemed to infect everyone, including the vaccinated and…
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New Research Hints at 4 Factors That May Increase Chances of Long Covid
It is one of many mysteries about long Covid: Who is more prone to developing it? Are some people more…
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Omicron’s Radical Evolution
As nurses and doctors struggle with a record-breaking wave of Omicron cases, evolutionary biologists are engaged in a struggle of…
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Omicron’s Radical Evolution
As nurses and doctors struggle with a record-breaking wave of Omicron cases, evolutionary biologists are engaged in a struggle of…
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Rich Countries Lure Health Workers From Low-Income Nations to Fight Shortages
LUSAKA, Zambia — There are few nurses in the Zambian capital with the skills and experience of Alex Mulumba, who…
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A Shrinking Band of Southern Nurses, Neck-Deep in Another Covid Wave
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Bobbie Anne Sison was heading to the hospital just before dawn when she got a panicked call…
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Social Security Opens to Survivors of Same-Sex Couples Who Could Not Marry
Helen Thornton and Margery Brown began dating in 1979. After just a few months, Ms. Thornton said, “I knew that…
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As Omicron Crests, Booster Shots Are Keeping Americans Out of Hospitals
Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are not just reducing the number of infections with the contagious Omicron…
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Booster shots are instrumental in protecting against Omicron, new C.D.C. data suggest.
Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines aren’t just preventing infections with the contagious Omicron variant — they’re also…