In Denmark, the coronavirus is everywhere, yet streets, cafes and shops are full. Tens of thousands have to isolate because they tested positive, but employees are back in offices, and bars and restaurants are no longer required to close at […]
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Connecticut to End Statewide School Mask Mandate
Connecticut will permit students and staff members to stop wearing masks in schools by no later than Feb. 28, after Gov. Ned Lamont recommended Monday that the statewide mask mandate end on that date. His remarks came after a move […]
Why is U.S.-born Eileen Gu skiing for China?
Eileen Gu was raised in San Francisco and grew up with a bedroom view of the Golden Gate Bridge. She learned to ski on the slopes around Lake Tahoe, where her mother was a part-time ski instructor. But at the […]
Li Wenliang, Doctor Who Warned of Covid, Is Still Mourned in China
Two years after the death of Li Wenliang, the doctor who tried to warn China about the coronavirus only to succumb to it himself, his memory remains a source of equal parts grief, anger and hope for many Chinese. Dr. […]
Looking for Early Warning Signs of Pancreatic Cancer
An early cancer in the pancreas doesn’t produce a lesion that can be felt, and it rarely causes symptoms that might prompt a definitive medical work-up until it has escaped the confines of the pancreas and spread elsewhere. But scientists […]
School Mask Mandate to Be Lifted in New Jersey
Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat who has imposed some of the nation’s most stringent pandemic-related mandates, will no longer require students and school employees to wear masks, signaling a deliberate shift toward treating the coronavirus as […]
Brown Deer, Wisc., Shooting Leaves 2 Dead and 2 Wounded, Police Say
BROWN DEER, Wis. — A gunman shot three people, killing two, before taking his own life on Saturday at an apartment building in Brown Deer, Wis., a village near Milwaukee, the police said. A witness, who was also wounded in […]
Joe Rogan Apologizes for ‘Shameful’ Past Use of Racial Slur
As pressure has intensified on Spotify and its star podcaster Joe Rogan, listeners reported that the company had quietly removed dozens of episodes of his show, while Rogan apologized early Saturday for his use of a racial slur in past […]
Pennsylvania Doctor Accused of Prescribing Ivermectin for Covid Is Fired
A Pennsylvania doctor accused of prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, two drugs that regulators have called not safe for treating the disease, was fired this week, a regional health system said. The doctor, Edith Behr, who worked for […]