This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not so long ago, it seemed the data on COVID-19 held a degree of comfort when it came to children: not too many of them got infected, fewer still got…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), hunger has been on the rise since 2015 and, by 2020, 768 million people are chronically suffering from the problem. In the same…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world have renewed their push to increase the number of vaccinated…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Indoor distances of two meters—about six and a half feet—may not be enough to sufficiently prevent transmission of airborne aerosols, researchers report. Eighteen months ago, stickers began to dot the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Los Angeles used to have some of the worst air quality in not just the country, but the world. One smog event in 1943 was so thick and toxic that Californians worried…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine a 65-year-old woman who sees her physician frequently for a variety of aches and pains. She might complain of back pain on one visit, headaches another time, and feeling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s push for more employers to require vaccines is likely to accelerate an already-growing trend in schools. In the past month, the number of states requiring teacher vaccinations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rise of the highly transmissible delta variant around the U.S. has increased demand for rapid antigen COVID-19 tests that can be purchased from a pharmacy without a prescription, used…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Air pollution was responsible for 9,700 more deaths in 2018 than it was in 2016, according to a new paper by economists at Carnegie Mellon. The researchers, Karen Clay and Nicholas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers from UC Berkeley are calling for an overhaul of the federal food stamps program that would remove barriers preventing millions of people from accessing live-saving benefits. The new report published…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scaling a solution is not the same as solving a problem at scale. Nearly 1 billion people around the world live with blindness or vision impairment that is correctable with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For years, a patchwork of afterschool programs in Dallas have provided care for thousands of children and reassurance to working parents their kids are in a safe place for the…