America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against all sorts of airborne diseases. In the ...
The pandemic propelled 3M’s N95 to international stardom. What’s next?
Minnesota-based 3M still ships millions of respirators, though health care is not the major market it briefly was.
Do Face Masks Work?
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5 years after the pandemic started, COVID-19 is still around. Masks? Not so much.
Masks were one of the most polarizing parts of the COVID pandemic. Five years later, have we moved closer to a compromise?
State of Emergency Declared as Fire Rages on Long Island
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has issued a state of emergency following brush fires that began early Saturday afternoon on ...
New York Gov. Hochul declares state of emergency in response to Long Island brush fires
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Saturday as crews battled brush fires on Long Island. She said 100,000 N95 masks will be sent to the impacted area.
5 years after COVID: Are we ready for the next pandemic?
In a single week, 6,900 New Yorkers died of COVID-19, one month after it was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
What is hantavirus? How Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa died
Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa died from a rare infectious disease known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, authorities ...
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Restoring Trust in Public Health: Instead of Clinging to Arbitrary Mask Mandates, Ground Policy in Evidence-Based Data
Federal public health responses to COVID-19 revealed a myriad of shortcomings. Especially with regard to face mask protocols ...
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Apple unveils the new iPhone 16e
Apple is launching a new phone: the iPhone 16e. It replaces the iPhone SE series, and is now the brand’s lowest-priced phone at $599 — last year’s iPhone 15 cost $699 by comparison. Pre ...