Biden Elevates Science in Week One Actions

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January 28, 2021

Policy & Ethics Biden Elevates Science in Week One Actions The president has moved quickly on COVID-19 and climate change and has boosted scientists' roles in his administration By Jim Daley

Public Health It's Time to Consider Vaccine Mandates in High-Risk Settings Leaving vaccination to individual choice is unacceptably dangerous in places such as nursing homes, long-term care facilities and prisons By Dorit Rubinstein Reiss,Arthur Caplan

Climate Five Things in Biden's Climate Day Orders That Flew Under the Radar Items include permitting for fossil fuel infrastructure and creating jobs to clean up pollution By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Public Health Stories from a Past Pandemic Readers write in about their ancestors' experiences during the 1918 flu By THE EDITORS

Biology Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India The research team determined that the city of Raipur in central India has at least one street cow for every 54 human residents. Christopher Intagliata reports. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:06

Computing What the Capitol Riot Data Download Shows about Social Media Vulnerabilities A massive amount of information downloaded from Parler includes potentially incriminating material. But innocuous posts on mainstream platforms can also create vulnerabilities By Sophie Bushwick

Public Health COVID-Overwhelmed Hospitals Strain Staff and Hope to Avoid Rationing Care There are times when critically ill patients must wait for beds, and some facilities have contingency plans to limit scarce supplies to certain patients By Katherine Harmon Courage

Space Giant Galaxies from the Universe's Childhood Challenge Cosmic Origin Stories Large galaxies are thought to form gradually, across billions of years of cosmic time. So why do astronomers keep finding them in the youthful early universe? By Robin George Andrews

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "There's no question that President Biden recognizes the importance of science." Jon Retzlaff, chief policy officer and vice president of science policy and government affairs at the American Association for Cancer Research

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