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The unions representing the nation’s health care workers have emerged as increasingly powerful voices during the still-raging pandemic. With more than 100,000 Americans hospitalized and many among their ranks infected, nurses and other health workers remain in a precarious frontline against the coronavirus and have turned again and again to …

The deaths add to what is becoming a familiar trend in the spread of the virus as it devastates religious congregate communities by infecting retired, aging populations of nuns and sisters. The religious sisters who lived in retired seclusion at the Dominican Life Center in Michigan followed strict rules to …

A new study suggests that protective antibodies can be transferred through the placenta, and the baby may receive more of them if a mother is infected with Covid earlier in her pregnancy. One of the many big questions scientists are trying to untangle is whether people who get Covid-19 during …

“One day I realized it had been three months since I had touched a human being,” one man said. The coronavirus pandemic has been rough on virtually everyone. But those who have been single through the isolation, fear and upheaval say they’ve been confronted with a distinct set of challenges …

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Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Danielle Reed stopped counting after the 156th email arrived in a single afternoon. It was late March, and her laboratory at the Monell Chemical …

Evidence from states that also reopened enrollment suggests it could pull more young, healthy Americans into insurance coverage. In December, the last Obamacare enrollment period under the Trump administration closed. Now that the Biden administration has arrived, it’s trying a do-over. The renewed effort reflects the Biden team’s view that …

The author of “The Big Short” and “Moneyball” takes on a frightening subject in his new book “The Premonition”: how to prevent a viral outbreak even worse than Covid-19. In his 2018 book, “The Fifth Risk,” Michael Lewis posed an unsettling question: What if the government agencies tasked with managing …

El Centro Nacional de Investigación de Epidemiología y Microbiología Gamaleya, parte del Ministerio de Salud de Rusia, desarrolló una vacuna contra la COVID-19 conocida como Sputnik V o Gam-Covid-Vac. El Gamaleya anunció en diciembre que la vacuna tenía una eficacia del 91,4 por ciento. Rusia la está empleando en su …