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Beijing’s SARS Lockdown Taught My Children Resilience. Your Covid Kids Will...

Many parents are filled with angst as they prepare for their children to exit a year of pandemic isolation: Will it be OK to send them to school, per the recent recommendation from the Centers for...

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Analysis: The Trump Health Care Policies That Deserve to Stick Around

President Joe Biden’s goal of providing health care for more Americans advanced this week with his signing of an economic stimulus package that includes subsidies for health insurance premiums and new...

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Analysis: How the US Invested in the War on Terrorism at the Cost of Public...

Here’s one big takeaway from our country’s disastrous 2020 covid response: For 20 years, we’ve lavished attention and money on fighting human terrorism and forgot that the terrorism of nature is...

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Analysis: I Was a Teenage Rifle Owner, Then an ER Doctor. Assault Weapons...

Many who know me might be shocked by this: I shot my first pistol when I was 8 or 9, taught by my father, a physician, aiming at targets in our basement. At summer camp, I loved riflery the way some...

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Telemedicine Is a Tool — Not a Replacement for Your Doctor’s Touch

Earlier in the pandemic it was vital to see doctors over platforms like Zoom or FaceTime when in-person appointments posed risks of coronavirus exposure. Insurers were forced — often for the first...

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Analysis: Why We’ll Likely Never Know Whether a Covid Lab Leak Happened in China

Early in this century, post-SARS, and in a period when China started allowing more students and scientists to study abroad, collaboration and exchange between American and Chinese scientists...

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Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer’s Drug Actually Works

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was widely celebrated, but it also touched off alarms. There were worries in the...

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Analysis: Necessary or Not, Covid Booster Shots Are Probably on the Horizon

The drugmaker Pfizer recently announced that vaccinated people are likely to need a booster shot to be effectively protected against new variants of covid-19 and that the company would apply for Food...

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Analysis: Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance.

America’s covid-19 vaccination rate is around 60% for ages 12 and up. That’s not enough to reach so-called herd immunity, and in states like Missouri — where a number of counties have vaccination...

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Análisis: ¿No quieres una vacuna? Prepárate para pagar más por tu seguro de...

La tasa de vacunación contra covid-19 en Estados Unidos es de alrededor del 60% desde los 12 años en adelante. Esto no es suficiente para alcanzar la llamada inmunidad colectiva, y en estados como...

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The Checkup Is in the Mail? Soliciting Letter Carriers to Help Deliver Health...

Two of America’s toughest problems can be tempered with one solution. The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger population of older people, many isolated, whose needs the nation is...

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Analysis: A Procedure That Cost $1,775 in New York Was $350 in Maryland....

For the past 18 months, while I was undergoing intensive physical therapy and many neurological tests after a complicated head injury, my friends would point to a silver lining: “Now you’ll be able to...

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Public Opinion Is Unified on Lowering Drug Prices. Why Are Leaders Settling...

Democrats and Republicans are crystal clear in polls that they want government to be allowed to negotiate down high drug prices. Americans pay nearly three times as much for drugs as patients in...

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Polio, Chickenpox, Measles, Now Covid. It’s Time to Consult History on School...

The rapid spread of omicron across the nation — and the finding that vaccines continue to provide strong protection against severe disease — brings covid-19 one step closer, perhaps, to truly earning...

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Polio, varicela, sarampión, y ahora covid. Es hora de revisar la historia del...

La rápida propagación de omicron en todo el país —y la constatación de que las vacunas siguen proporcionando una fuerte protección contra la enfermedad grave— hace que covid-19 esté, quizás, a un...

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The End of the Covid Emergency Could Mean a Huge Loss of Health Insurance

If there has been a silver lining to this terrible covid-19 pandemic, it is that the rate of Americans without health insurance dropped to a near-historic low, in response to various federal...

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Is My Drug Copay Coupon a Form of Charity — Or a Bribe?

Before my insurer had even preapproved coverage of the new injectable medicine my doctor had prescribed, I got a voicemail from its manufacturer informing me that I might qualify for its copay...

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Will the US Overcome Its Covid Complacency Even as the Threat Returns?

A few months ago, it seemed as though the country was poised to finally tame the pandemic, after two years of restrictions and tens of billions in government spending. The Biden administration in...

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The Debt Crisis That Sick Americans Can’t Avoid

President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to cancel student debt for the first $10,000 owed on federal college loans has raised debate about the fairness of such lending programs. While just over half of...

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La crisis de deuda que los estadounidenses enfermos no pueden evitar

La promesa de campaña del presidente Joe Biden de cancelar la deuda estudiantil por los primeros $10,000 adeudados en préstamos universitarios federales ha generado un debate sobre la equidad de estos...

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