Researchers develop more broadly protective coronavirus vaccine: Scientists have been searching for the optimal coronavirus vaccine since the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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Older adults should get another COVID shot this spring, CDC says: A second shot could provide additional protection for an age group that remains at high risk.
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Quick Glance: Why Older Adults Require an Additional COVID-19 Vaccine
- According to new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), older adults should receive the COVID-19 vaccine more frequently than previously recommended. Individuals aged 65 and older are urged to get another vaccine dose in the spring or at least four months after their last dose.
- The decision is based on data presented by CDC scientists showing current high hospitalization rates for COVID-19 among seniors, with the biggest spikes occurring in those aged 75 and older. A significant portion of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are among people over 65 years old.
Trump’s vaccine rhetoric sends chills through public health circles: Public health advocates are watching in growing alarm as former President Trump increasingly ...
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CDC director on new COVID guidance ending 5-day isolation: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its COVID guidance for when people need to ...
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Quick Glance: CDC Ends Five-Day COVID Isolation Guidance
- The CDC is no longer recommending Americans stay home for five days after a positive COVID-19 test.
- The new guidance advises symptomatic individuals to stay home and resume normal activities as symptoms improve.
- While COVID-19 remains a health threat, the CDC acknowledges it is no longer an emergency.
- The updated guidelines do not apply to health settings, the CDC stated.
Read how education makes girls richer, healthier and more free. From the archive: econ.st/3V9yZgC Photo: Reuters#InspireInclusion #IWD2024
The conflict in Gaza is proving more expensive than expected—and has exacerbated long-standing problems in Israel’s economy econ.st/49zVjEJ Illustration: Alberto Miranda
“In Japan, there’s a saying that it is the wife’s responsibility to educate her husband. What a joke.” Why shouldn’t men be held responsible for educating ... Show more econ.st/3wIxfRG
German man got 217 COVID-19 vaccinations. Researchers say he’s fine: A German man intentionally received more than 200 COVID-19 vaccinations ...
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Quick Glance: Unique Vaccination Story: 217 Covid-19 Vaccinations Given
- A 62-year-old man from Germany received 217 Covid-19 vaccinations against medical advice.
- The unique case was documented in a study conducted by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
- The vaccinations were administered privately over 29 months, with no reported adverse effects on the man.
- Researchers found no indications of a prior Covid infection and caution against excessive vaccination for immunity enhancement.
Everywhere is building upwards, higher, further into the sky—except Europe. Read why it is the peninsula that tower-builders forgot: econ.trib.al/JCFry0w Illustration: Peter ... Show more
“Oppenheimer” is both a crowd-pleasing blockbuster and a critic-pleasing passion project. Perhaps its success will persuade Hollywood to invest in some more ... Show more www.economist.com/culture/2024/03/11/oppenheimer-breaks-the-recent-trend-at-the-oscars
Measles reaches Central Florida as Polk County resident contracts virus: The case was reported in an adult age 20-24. As of Tuesday, the state now has 10 cases ...
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Quick Glance: Measles Cases Surge in the U.S.
- Global measles cases are rising despite the available vaccine, reflecting declining vaccine confidence.
- Critics say prominent statements are fueling vaccine hesitancy. Epidemiologists warn of severe outcomes during outbreaks.
- Exemption rates above 5 percent lead to lower vaccination coverage, increasing the risk for outbreaks.
- Experts caution about the rising spread of measles due to declining vaccination rates and the impact of misinformation in the COVID era.
How to fix the Ivy League: Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership
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Corona, flu or RSV? This is what the combination self-test can do: Antigen self-tests have become normal in many households since the corona pandemic ...
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Have you ever thought about what you want done with your body when you die? For just $13,000 a private company will send your cremated ashes to the moon: ... Show more www.economist.com/united-states/2024/03/07/a-private-company-will-send-your-ashes-to-the-moon
Japan's Takeda in regulatory talks to launch dengue vaccine in India: Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical is holding talks with Indian regulators to make its dengue ...
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Largest multicountry COVID study links vaccines to potential adverse effects: A new study on COVID-19 vaccines that looked at nearly 100 million vaccinated ...
thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4477406-largest-multi-country-covid-study-links-vaccines-to-potential-adverse-effects/
China is in a funk. Many people lack the confidence to spend or invest, and do not quite understand what has gone wrong. Senior officials cannot acknowledge this ... Show more econ.st/4c4nJIE
The psychology of impatience could make waiting more tolerable: New studies on the experience of impatience suggest there’s more to it than simply how long ...
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Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?: The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year
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“Palestine”, an old graphic novel, is making a comeback: Interest in Joe Sacco’s graphic novel is the highest it has been in 20 years
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Do the latest vaccines better protect us from COVID-19?: For the first time, Australian researchers have sought to put a number on how much better newer vaccines ...
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Physicists are reimagining dark matter: There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang
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Widespread dissatisfaction with the choice of Joe Biden or Donald Trump for America’s president may lead voters to look for other options ... Show more econ.st/3PdrFNp
COVID-19 timeline: How the deadly virus and the world's response have evolved over 4 years
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Novavax settles dispute with international vaccine group Gavi: Novavax has agreed to pay back international vaccine group Gavi at least $475 million in cash or ...
reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/novavax-settles-dispute-with-international-vaccine-group-gavi-2024-02-22/
Kharkiv is struggling under Russian rocket attacks : A border region liberated by Ukraine’s army faces a new onslaught
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Europe is ill-equipped to defend itself. Its leaders must urgently jettison their post-Soviet complacency and act before it is too late econ.st/42LpRkh
Paxlovid Lowers Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization, Study Finds: Almost 5,000 people in the study group received Paxlovid. The use of Paxlovid was the best ...
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Capturing “tacit knowledge”—the know-how born of experience—is a tough task. It cannot easily be documented in the manuals and is not much thought about by ... Show more www.economist.com/business/2024/03/07/how-can-firms-pass-on-tacit-knowledge
The confluence of Russia’s rearmament, Ukraine’s deteriorating position and Donald Trump’s possible return to the White House have brought Europe to its most ... Show more econ.st/42HeFFj
Has Barry from HR really been pushing your buttons and you need to vent? These are the pros and cons of losing your temper at work econ.st/48AgXaI Illustration: Paul ... Show more
There are about 10.5m people living outside China who are, or once were, Chinese citizens. But leaving the country does not necessarily offer freedom from the ... Show more econ.st/49Sohj1
Some universities, especially former technical colleges and polytechnics in big cities, have grown exceptionally diverse. Good grades ... Show more econ.trib.al/NfnsU5N
On March 11, 2020 — three months after a group of people in Wuhan, China, first exhibited symptoms of a novel coronavirus — the World Health Organization ... Show more
China is calling on its bankers to develop a “financial culture with Chinese characteristics”. What could this look like? econ.st/3uSlEia Illustration: Chloe Cushman
Gabriel García Márquez’s novella was published against his wishes: “Until August” raises questions about authors’ consent and the literary afterlife
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Switching arms for vaccines could help boost your immunity, study finds: A new study examines whether alternating arms for multidose vaccines could improve ...
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A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery: But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected
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Ukraine’s animals are also victims of the war: Though foxes have thrived
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The country’s semiconductor supply chain is steadily deepening. But can it ever match that of its rivals? econ.st/3uzyim4 Illustration: Guillem Casasus
India's Serum boosts supply of cervical cancer shots ahead of government's mass drive
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99 million vaccinated people analyzed: Most common side effects of the corona vaccination
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Why is measles making a comeback in the UK?: As parents refuse vaccines for their children, the UK has seen a surge in measles cases over the past year.
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Quick Glance: Florida School Measles Outbreak Raises Concerns
- A recent measles outbreak in a Florida school highlights the increasing danger of vaccine skepticism.
- Reports indicate that six students at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Broward County have been diagnosed with the disease.
- Experts express concerns about potential future outbreaks and stress the importance of vaccinations in light of growing skepticism.
- Health officials point out that inadequate vaccination rates at U.S. schools pose a risk for measles outbreaks.
Whenever a global economic transformation takes place, a single city usually drives it forward. Today that city is San Francisco ... Show more econ.st/49uw32R
Two riveting new memoirs explore monogamy and its discontents. The authors are hemmed in by the demands of motherhood and the desire to be desired by men: ... Show more econ.trib.al/pozlPzi
How businesses are actually using generative AI: Some experiments with chatbots are more useful than others
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Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it
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Life and death in Putin’s gulag: Navalny’s death has exposed the similarities between Russia’s current penal system and Stalin’s
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What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?: It seeks to equate Indianness with Hinduism
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Mask-wearing no longer mandatory in lower-risk health settings such as polyclinics, GPs
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Largest COVID vaccine study yet finds links to health conditions: Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long COVID symptoms from an ...
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New COVID Vaccine 54% Effective at Preventing Symptoms: The researchers took people who tested for COVID and then asked them about vaccine history ...
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More than a tenth of Azerbaijan’s annual budget has been earmarked for the reconstruction of Nagorno-Karabakh: econ.trib.al/3Q4DWsq Image: Getty Images
The resilience of Germany’s old steel-making heartland is a model for the future: econ.st/42MkK3t Photo: Getty Images
Tensions run high in House hearing on COVID vaccine safety, efficacy: House lawmakers exchanged pointed barbs Thursday in what ended up being a rather ...
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Exile has long been a way for critics to escape the iron fist of tyrants. Now autocracies are trying to control ideas and people abroad as well as at home ... Show more econ.st/3IlaXaX
CDC: Older adults should get COVID-19 booster shot: The recommendation comes ahead of a likely summer wave of COVID-19 infections that has occurred in past years ...
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The growing peril of national conservatism: It’s dangerous and it’s spreading. Liberals need to find a way to stop it
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How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine: Exploit them to the full, but legally
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What Constitutes a ‘Superspreader Event’?: Superspreader events are large social gatherings that result in multiple infections transmitted among attendees with ...
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A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs : All use different chemistries for cost or performance
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Europe Needs to Get on Top of Its Measles Outbreak: An alarming rise in measles cases across Europe is blamed on low vaccine uptake during the pandemic and ...
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Why do Nvidia’s chips dominate the AI market?: The firm has three big advantages
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What Constitutes a ‘Superspreader Event’?: Superspreader events are large social gatherings that result in multiple infections transmitted among attendees with ...
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Older US adults should get another COVID-19 shot, health officials recommend: Federal health officials say older U.S. adults who got a COVID-19 shot in the fall ...
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How investors get risk wrong: Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform
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The reckless heroism of Alexei Navalny: Russia’s leading opposition figure endured ignominy, imprisonment and poisoning over the course of his political career
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“Economic travesty persists because India increasingly devalues human dignity, equity and fairness, while undercutting civic virtues essential for social ... Show more econ.st/48GyD4u
The election result is a rebuke to the army—and may eventually prove a turning point in the generals’ ability to influence politics econ.st/3UEMzIW Image: Getty Images
New COVID Vaccine 54% Effective at Preventing Symptoms: The researchers took people who tested for COVID and then asked them about vaccine history ...
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An exhibition football match featuring Lionel Messi was meant to help attract foreigners to Hong Kong. Instead it made the city look worryingly like the ... Show more econ.st/3T1MCx4
Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending: The choices: taxes, cuts elsewhere, more borrowing
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Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia? : Five maps and charts illustrate the current state of fighting
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On “A Wonderful Country”, Israelis joke their way through trauma: Nothing appears off limits on the incisive comedy show, except for Gazans’ pain
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Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls: When the Taliban cracked down on girls’ education, one woman knew what she had to do
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West Virginia lawmakers pass bill allowing religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements
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