Tag: Social issues
FDA expands Pfizer booster eligibility to kids ages 12 to 15, authorizes third shots at 5 months
Dash Hunger, 12, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine at the Jewish Federation/JARC's offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on May 13, 20 [...]
Here are the 10 best cities, from costs to safety, for ringing in 2022
Times Square, New YorkJason Dean | Moment | Getty ImagesFrom the Big Apple to the Bay Area, cities and towns across the country are expecting celeb [...]
More employers put 401(k) savings on autopilot
Marko Geber | DigitalVision | Getty ImagesEmployers are increasingly putting retirement savings on autopilot for their workers.About 62% of busines [...]
Omicron less likely to cause hospitalization, UK government study says
Christmas shoppers in London on Dec. 23, 2021.Hasan Esen | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesLONDON — People are far less likely to be admitted to hospi [...]
Rising flu cases threaten hospital capacity as Covid surges into holidays
Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas.Br [...]
Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden Covid vaccine mandates
A sign in a restaurant window informs customers that they will need to show proof that they are at least partly vaccinated for Covid-19 to be allow [...]
“being vaccinated with two doses may not be enough”
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the omicron variant of the coronavirus has "over 50 mutations and because of those mutations, just being va [...]
U.S. to deploy troops to hospitals, purchase 500 million Covid tests
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House Covid-19 Response Team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House December 16, [...]
Omicron and unemployment benefits: Here’s what to know
Pedestrians stand in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site at Columbus Circle in New York, on Dec. 5, 2021.Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesC [...]
U.S. faces oncoming Covid omicron surge as it grapples with delta
Dr. Anthony Fauci takes part in a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and other members of the White House COVID [...]
Americans should soon be able to get free at-home Covid tests
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty ImagesWho can get the free tests?The White House says that the 150 million Americans who have private health insuran [...]
Former SpaceX engineer essay alleges culture is ‘rife with sexism’
A Falcon 9 rocket is displayed outside the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) headquarters on January 28, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. [...]
Kroger to take away paid Covid benefits for unvaccinated employees
Kroger employees put groceries and other goods into plastic totes. Those totes are gobbled up by a grid where robots help retrieve items for custom [...]
Omicron detected in Florida and Texas as it takes root in 25 U.S. states
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 swab test at a testing site at Tropical Park in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021.Eva Marie [...]
Supreme Court will let lawsuit challenging Texas abortion law continue
Pro-choice demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021.Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images [...]