Nassau county banned masks, now disabled people are suing
Disability Rights New York filed the first class-action lawsuit against a mask ban in federal district court against Nassau County.
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With New COVID Vaccines Arriving Soon, Brush up on Guidelines and Summer Surge Facts
We’re in a summer COVID surge, and updated vaccines are due soon. Here’s a quick update on what you need to know
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How A Gay Community Helped The CDC Spot A COVID Outbreak — And Learn More About Delta
A data scientist working in tech, Michael Donnelly became an amateur COVID-19 watcher early in the pandemic. When his vaccinated friends started getting sick following July Fourth festivities in Provincetown, Mass., he documented more than 50 breakthrough cases that ultimately led the CDC to changing its guidance on masking.
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New Covid Vaccines Are Coming. Here’s What to Know.
The new vaccine should provide some protection to everyone. But many healthy people who have already been vaccinated or have immunity because they’ve been exposed to COVID enough times may want to wait a few months.
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University of Houston researchers make nasal vaccine that prevents COVID from spreading
the new nasal vaccine is a crucial step forward in the goal of fighting viral evolution.
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COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns
COVID-19 infections are surging worldwide - including at the Olympics - and are unlikely to decline anytime soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned.
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What’s different about this summer’s FLiRT COVID wave
Based on wastewater sample data, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention reports that COVID levels have increased in most states nationwide.
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Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest
Beyond the efforts to keep our bodies from falling apart, we face existential threats from a society that actively silences, diminishes, excludes, and eliminates us.
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COVID-19 is on the rise with wide-ranging symptoms
new variants of the coronavirus — called FLIRT variants — have found a way to evade immunity, affecting even people who have previously had COVID-19. And symptoms can be hard to spot
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‘Playing COVID roulette’: Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet
anecdotally, including on social media sites, people are expressing shock at how sick they’ve become from the latest subvariants, which have been collectively nicknamed FLiRT.