Across Europe on Thursday, Americans scrambled to make sense of conflicting messages from Washington about if and when they would be allowed to return to the United States. They awoke to the news that President Trump had announced a 30-day suspension of most travel from Europe in a bid to stem the spread of the…
As the spread of the coronavirus leads to more school closings, many parents are finding themselves faced with the prospect of what amounts to home-schooling their children. Ideally, teachers will provide lessons, whether online or on paper, to help meet children’s academic needs, but school also fills physical and social needs. Answering the following questions…
“Alarming levels of inaction.” That is what the World Health Organization said Wednesday about the global response to coronavirus. It is a familiar refrain to anyone who works on climate change, and it is why global efforts to slow down warming offer a cautionary tale for the effort to slow down the pandemic. “Both demand…
Government-imposed quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocity with which contagious diseases spread. The very word quarantine is rooted in the Italian words quarantenara and quaranta giorni, or 40 days, the period of time that the city of Venice forced ship passengers and cargo to wait before landing in the…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageSeeking assistance at a Delta Air Lines counter at Paris-Charles De Gaulle airport on Thursday.Credit…Thibault Camus/Associated Press Europe condemns the U.S. travel ban as more nations add restrictions. On both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday, the consequences of President Trump’s decision to ban most travel from Europe began…
ImageAt a drive-in testing site for coronavirus in Liege, Belgium, on Wednesday. The United States is far behind many other countries in the number of people being tested for the new virus.Credit…Francois Lenoir/Reuters The ability of the American health care system to absorb a shock — what experts call surge capacity — is much weaker…
Every “Oh wow” in “Human Nature” is matched by an “Oh no” somewhere down the line. Together, these two competing emotions — excitement and unease — make for one pretty fascinating documentary. The film, directed by Adam Bolt, explores Crispr technology, which, broadly speaking, can be used to snip out problematic parts of DNA —…
Pale and gasping for breath, the thin, elderly man stumbled into the emergency room complaining of fevers and a wet cough that had worsened over the previous week. Coughing spells had prevented him from sleeping, and his panoply of emphysema inhalers did little to quell his wheezing. This was months before “coronavirus” and “pandemic” became…
WASHINGTON — Almost overnight, President Trump has gone from insisting the economy would not need fiscal help to weather the coronavirus to proposing a stimulus plan that would cost more than the 2008 Wall Street bank bailout or the 2009 stimulus bill aimed at digging the United States out of a deep recession. The centerpiece…
Omega-3 fatty acids have almost no effect, good or bad, on the risk for cardiovascular disease or cancer. Those are the findings of two large studies, one an update in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the second in the British Journal of Cancer, that combined data from dozens of randomized controlled trials. In…