Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Expert explains ageism's toll in the age of COVID

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of the nation's leading voices on the negative impacts and violence of ageism. Gullette, 81 and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center of Brandeis University, is the ...

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Your neighborhood may influence your COVID-19 risk

Markers of the pandemic's impact—testing rates, positivity ratio (cases among total tests), case rates by overall population and deaths—are clustered in neighborhoods, with low-income and predominantly minority communities ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 at forefront of IDWeek discussions

(HealthDay)—Emerging COVID-19 science, including epidemiology, treatments, vaccines, and post-COVID-19 syndrome took center stage at this year's IDWeek, the annual meeting of infectious disease experts worldwide, held virtually ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Why Indigenous communities seeing few cases of COVID-19

Like most people, Tania Cameron was watching the news intently as the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Canada. A member of Niisaachewan First Nation and regional coordinator for Indigenous Sport & Wellness Ontario, ...

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School buildings need more space to safely reopen

When COVID-19 first arose, the battle cry was "flatten the curve." As states make plans to reopen, get ready for another important strategy: "de-densify."

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