What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant
[ad_1] Since Omicron became the world’s dominant Covid variant, it’s taken on a lot of shapes. First there was BA.1, then BA.5, and eventually others, including BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. Now all…
How to Get Your 4 Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests (2022)
[ad_1] It took nearly two years of living through the Covid-19 pandemic to get our first round of free at-home rapid tests. Now, we’re on our third. Every household in…
How Does a Variant-Specific Covid Booster Work?
[ad_1] The Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines are getting an update. The new booster shots rolling out across the US and Europe this week are specifically tailored to currently circulating Omicron…
Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened
[ad_1] The discovery that polio has partially paralyzed a young man in a New York suburb feels wearying, yet shocking. Wearying, because it’s the third highly infectious virus to make…
How Limits on CDC Studies Shaped the New Federal Gun Law
[ad_1] “Yeah, I think that was,” Republican senator Thom Tillis says of Cornyn’s unscientific news clipping. JFK’s Legacy For Tillis, what truly unified the disparate group of progressives and conservatives…