Adolescents Can Finally Get Vaccinated against COVID

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May 13, 2021

Medicine Adolescents Can Finally Get Vaccinated against COVID Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approval is younger teens' shot at freedom By Tara Haelle

Public Health Will COVID Force Public Health to Confront America's Epic Inequality? In California's San Joaquin Valley, some researchers are turning political to address the social determinants of health By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Climate Republican Infrastructure Counterproposal Mostly Eliminates Climate Spending Climate has emerged as a key sticking point in talks between President Biden and Republican leaders By Adam Aton,E&E News

Public Health Tomorrow's Biggest Microbial Threats Health experts around the world are focused on SARS-CoV-2, but similar viruses and microbial organisms such as bacteria could create the next global killer By Mike May,Nature Medicine

Space We Are the Aliens On a geological timescale, the emergence of the human "dataome" is like a sudden invasion by extraterrestrials, or an asteroid impact that precipitates a mass extinction By Caleb A. Scharf

Climate A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong In Unsettled, Steven Koonin deploys that highly misleading label to falsely suggest that we don't understand the risks well enough to take action By Gary Yohe

Medicine Genetic Therapies for Brain Diseases Hopes are high for a class of drug that could treat neurodegenerative conditions—but a recent clinical trial has brought the field up short By Diana Kwon,Nature magazine

Public Health One Hurdle at a Time What the experts say people can do after they get a vaccine By Andrea Gawrylewski

Medical & Biotech New Blood Analyzer Tells Human from Animal Samples on the Spot The system could someday provide fast results at a crime scene By Harini Barath

Neuroscience New Brain Implant Turns Visualized Letters into Text The technology lets people with paralysis perform thought dictation at rates approaching the thumb speeds of texters By Bret Stetka

Medicine MDMA Shows New Promise for Trauma, but the Drug Alone Is Not a Cure The illegal substance—paired with intensive therapy and hard work—dramatically improves PTSD symptoms By Zoe Cormier

Engineering Hacker Attack on Essential Pipeline Shows Infrastructure Weaknesses Ransomware is steadily hitting harder. Could banks or subway systems be next? By Sophie Bushwick

Public Health Decoded: What Is a Virus, Exactly? These sometimes deadly packets of genetic information are more numerous in number than the stars in the cosmos By Michael Tabb,Andrea Gawrylewski,Jeffery DelViscio

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Helping Kids Cope with COVID-19 Worries The psychological state of children may need special attention during COVID-19 impacts and isolation. By Susanne Bard | June 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "As we're vaccinating older people, we are driving the virus into younger populations, and anybody the virus infects can potentially have a variant develop in them...From a community perspective, to stop the virus's transmission and the formation of new variants, we have to vaccinate everybody, including kids." Kawsar Talaat, epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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