LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Sunday that Britain would soon impose a mandatory quarantine on travelers arriving in the country by air to try to avert a new wave of coronavirus infections, signaling how cautious the country will be in relaxing its seven-week lockdown. Mr. Johnson offered …
Read More »Paramedics, Strained in the Hot Zone, Pull Back From CPR
NEWARK — The calls for patients in cardiac arrest came in one after another. A 39-year-old man, followed by a 65-year-old, whose neighbor called 911 after getting no response when he rang the doorbell. Then a 52-year-old woman’s heart stopped, as did that of a 90-year-old, who had collapsed on …
Read More »Top Health Officials to Quarantine After Being Exposed
This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what you need to know: Top health officials are quarantining after being exposed. Tracking the high coronavirus toll in U.S. nursing homes. Trump is losing ground with seniors when it comes to his handling of the virus. …
Read More »F.D.A. Approves First Antigen Test for Detecting the Coronavirus
[Follow our live world updates on the Coronavirus pandemic and outbreak.] The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first antigen test that can rapidly detect whether a person has been infected by the coronavirus, a significant advancement that promises to greatly expand the nation’s testing capacity. The test, by …
Read More »Instant Pot Chicken Bone Broth Recipe (with Stovetop Option)
Once you start making your own Instant Pot chicken bone broth, you’ll never buy salty packaged chicken broth from the store again. It’s fully prepped in minutes, you probably have all of the ingredients on hand, it costs pennies per serving, and we suspect you’ll make roast chicken a little …
Read More »How to Get a Picky Eater to Try New Foods
At my house, dinner often looks like grass-fed rib eye, grilled to medium rare with salt and pepper, and broccoli roasted with avocado oil and cooked ‘til crispy. It’s satisfying, satiating, and metabolically in line with the way I like to eat. Dinner probably looks fairly similar at your place …
Read More »Why Am I Getting Low Ketone Readings on a Ketogenic Diet?
Even after publishing several books and hundreds of articles that draw upon the science of ketosis and low-carb living, I keep researching, thinking, revisiting, and discussing the underpinnings of ketosis. My writing partner, Brad Kearns, and I maintain a running dialogue on all things keto. The latest conversation revolved around …
Read More »Weekly Link Love – Edition 80
Research of the Week We forage for information in our minds the way we foraged for food as hunter-gatherers. Full lockdowns don’t seem to have had much effect in Western Europe. Deep genetic history of the Andes. Factors most associated with death from COVID-19 in the UK: maleness, old age, …
Read More »Kenyans Held For Weeks in Quarantine Were Told to Pay to Get Out
NAIROBI, Kenya — When Valentine Ochogo arrived home in Kenya after being laid off from her job at a hot-air balloon business in Dubai, she was put in quarantine in a university dormitory with other travelers — one step in the government’s aggressive, often-lauded campaign to prevent the spread of …
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