My year of smells: How I regained lost smells after Covid
It was October 2020. The days were getting shorter; the news was getting worse. I was looking for a small
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The father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed
Robert Bullard has been trying to explain to us for more than 40 years that the word “racism” isn’t so
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When should I get a Covid-19 test? Here’s a simple guide.
A year into the largest vaccine rollout in history, the current phase of the Covid-19 pandemic may seem eerily familiar:
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New York’s COVID Surge Is Back—and So Is Its Mask Mandate
NEW YORK — Facing a winter surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced today that masks will
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2022 Beijing Olympics: What the US’s “diplomatic boycott” does — and doesn’t — mean
The opening ceremonies for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are less than two months away, and some potential guests have
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What we don’t know about OCD
At 13, Arnie got a paper route. The work troubled him, however — and not in the usual way a
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FDA Expands Booster Doses to People 16 Years and Older
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now says that 16- and 17-year olds can get a booster dose of the
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What the first Starbucks union means for workers everywhere
On Thursday, workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, voted to form a union, making it the first
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How One Massachusetts Town Could Shape the Future of Tobacco
As Katharine Silbaugh sees it, one mark of a good public policy is being both big and small: big in
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How the omicron variant is affecting South Africa, according to a top health journalist
Mia Malan has been covering the emergence of the new omicron coronavirus variant from the ground in South Africa. She
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