In many places, the debates over reopening are fraught. But in a survey, experts broadly agreed that schools don’t need vaccines to open safely. Many of the common preconditions to opening schools — including vaccines for teachers or students, and low rates of infection in the community — are not …
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A team of experts from the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the pandemic visited a research center in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday that has been a focus of several unfounded theories about the coronavirus. The W.H.O. scientists met with staff members at the center, the Wuhan Institute of …
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Medical professionals questioned how well the individual plastic bubbles protected band members and concertgoers from the coronavirus. There are Covid-19 bubbles — small clusters of friends or family who agree to socialize exclusively with each other during the pandemic — and then there are the kinds of bubbles the Flaming …
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Vaccine experts peppered officials at the Food and Drug Administration with a range of questions on Thursday about its guidelines for approving a coronavirus vaccine, pushing the agency on whether it should wait longer to collect more safety data and whether an emergency approval could jeopardize the outcome of the …
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Zombies have been a fan favorite for horror enthusiasts for decades. From Night of the Living Dead to The Walking Dead, the zombie apocalypse is always a fascinating scenario to analyze. But, one thing that’s never addressed in the movies is life insurance — for zombies and survivors alike. So we …
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When President Trump makes his appearance on Thursday night on NBC News, he is expected to speak, probably maskless, with the moderator, Savannah Guthrie, and the audience sitting at least 12 feet away. But he is unlikely to transmit the coronavirus to any of those people, multiple experts said. Since …
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The White House physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley, predicted in a memo released Thursday that President Trump could safely “return to public engagements” on Saturday, based on the date on which he tested positive for the coronavirus and his response to treatments. The document, which offered a brief overview of …
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A box fan, an air filter — and duct tape to attach them. With four such cobbled together devices, at perhaps a total of $ 150, the vice-presidential debate on Wednesday night could be made much safer, according to experts in airborne viruses. Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala …
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BETHESDA, Md. — When Dr. Sean P. Conley confessed that he had misled the public on Saturday about President Trump’s treatment for Covid-19 to reflect the “upbeat attitude” of the White House, he lost credibility with many colleagues in the medical world. “Yesterday’s briefing was a spin doctor, not a …
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