Health & Fitness

How to Know When the Pandemic Is Over

The most obvious interpretation of “beating COVID-19” would be that transmission of the coronavirus has stopped, a scenario some public-health experts have hashtagged #ZeroCOVID. But the experts I spoke with…

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Will There Be Another Surge? The Spring Is the Mystery

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Health & Fitness

Will There Be Another Surge? The Spring Is the Mystery

The U.K. variant, which scientists call B.1.1.7, is “of grave concern,” he said: In every country it’s dominated, this variant has increased the disease’s reproduction number—R, a measure of how…

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Health & Fitness

Listen: Have We Turned the Corner?

Meyer: No, I agree with you. I think there is a lot of communication happening right now that’s like Don’t let up, don’t let up, don’t let up that is…

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COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Down - The Atlantic

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Health & Fitness

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Down – The Atlantic

Falling hospitalizations are also occurring across the U.S. By the COVID Tracking Project’s conservative definitions, they’re falling week over week in 36 states and D.C., staying the same in 12,…

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America’s Most Reliable Pandemic Data Are Now at Risk

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Health & Fitness

America’s Most Reliable Pandemic Data Are Now at Risk

At the COVID Tracking Project, we were keenly aware of how little information the public was receiving. And we, like many other people, worried that HHS officials would attempt to…

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How Many Have Recovered From COVID-19? We Don't Know

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Health & Fitness

How Many Have Recovered From COVID-19? We Don’t Know

Six states that once reported recovery statistics have stopped, many citing their difficulties with collecting complete or reliable data. And eight jurisdictions have never provided any recovery statistics. This could…

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Rapid Coronavirus Testing Is Missing From State Data

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Health & Fitness

Rapid Coronavirus Testing Is Missing From State Data

The value of antigen tests is based on a simple tradeoff. They’re not as sensitive as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which are the gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19, but…

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America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors

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Science

America Has Not Mounted Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors

The ensuing database is a patchwork, constructed from the person elements that every state’s information techniques seize and from the numbers that native political leaders enable to be revealed. Fusing…

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December Is Now the Deadliest Month of the Pandemic

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Health & Fitness

December Is Now the Deadliest Month of the Pandemic

And hospitalizations, probably the most secure indicator of the pandemic’s attain and severity, are nonetheless growing, although not as drastically as originally of the month. Within the Midwest, after an…

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50,000 Black Americans Have Died of COVID-19

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Health & Fitness

50,000 Black Individuals Have Died of COVID-19

For hundreds of years, Black individuals have spoken in regards to the struggles we face, pointing to root causes like poverty, housing segregation, unemployment, and environmental degradation. And for hundreds…

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