Fauci said it's important for all Americans — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — to continue avoiding crowds and socially distancing until we know for sure that vaccinated people don't spread the virus.
There’s a new coronavirus variant traveling around this summer at a record clip.
We spoke to public-health experts about how concerned you should be about the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron, on a scale of 1 to 10, and how to avoid it. ⬇️ businessinsider.com/how-worried-to…
It’s getting trickier to avoid a COVID-19 infection altogether.
BA.5 is strategically evading our built-up defenses against prior versions of the virus, which means that reinfections — even in vaccinated and recently infected people — are way up. businessinsider.com/covid-variant-…
.@PreetiNMalani, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Michigan, was willing to give a hard and fast number.
The reversal of Roe v. Wade doesn’t just mean that abortions will be harder to come by. It also means that data about abortions will be harder to come by.
And that means we won't know how the decision is actually affecting people, @jetjocko reports. ⬇️
Decades of science show that restricting abortions leads to higher maternal and infant mortality, worse outcomes for pregnancy and abortion, and increases in poverty and health issues for parents and children.
Nearly two years later, the former firefighter paramedic is still suffering from “long COVID.” She is unable to work and spends most of her time in bed.
For 10 years, Bishof (@K_Bishof) struggled as a single mom. When she was hired as a firefighter paramedic, it was the first time she had the feeling that everything was going to be okay.
Top ER doctors in several states told Insider this #COVID19 wave is forcing them to refuse life-saving treatment to other patients because there isn’t enough room for all the sick and injured people to get the emergency care they need. ⬇️
Dr. John Hick told Insider his colleagues @hcmcEM are examining people sitting on the floor because they have "literally run out of any space to put them."
Dozens of Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill have invested in companies that have a direct stake in the nation’s response to the #COVID19 pandemic, according to a @thisisinsider analysis of federal financial records. ⬇️
In 2020, at least 13 senators and 35 US Representatives held shares of Johnson & Johnson and at least 11 senators and 34 representatives also held shares in Pfizer.
Two representatives or their spouses held shares of Moderna in 2020.
Apeiron has $3.5 billion in assets under management.
Owner, Christian Angermayer, is especially interested in trying to develop psychedelics into medicines, with investments in ATAI Life Sciences and Compass Pathways, which focus on mental health.