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Tufts Medical Center hit a symbolic milestone in its main Boston hospital in Chinatown last week: For the first time in more than three years in the pandemic they had zero COVID-19 patients. It lasted for just one day, but it had a big impact, said Dr. Shira Doron, chief infection control officer for the […]
On April 10, the federal national emergency ended early. This emergency order, which was separate from the federal public health emergency that’s ending this week, was originally set to also expire on May 11 — but a bipartisan congressional resolution moved to bring this order to a close ahead of schedule. Late last week, on […]
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AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public health officials, hear from the experts in medicine on COVID-19, medical education, advocacy issues, burnout, vaccines and more. Featured topic and speakers Featured topic and speakers In […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide. At its heyday in the 1960s, more than 1,500 parishioners filled every seat at Zion. But membership at the historic […]
Comment on this storyComment Looking back at the U.S. response to the pandemic, many setbacks and mistakes are well-known. But a closer examination by a team of seasoned experts has brought to the surface a profoundly unsettling conclusion. The United States, once the paragon of can-do pragmatism, of successful moon shots and biomedical breakthroughs, fell […]
Historic reductions in U.S. prison populations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately benefitted white people, and the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino people “sharply . . .
Former Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Jaffee, one of the magazine’s longest contributors, had delighted millions of kids with such fixtures as the Fold-In and “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” With its cheeky, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, Mad was essential reading for teens and preteens […]
AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public health officials, hear from the experts in medicine on COVID-19, medical education, advocacy issues, burnout, vaccines and more. Featured topic and speakers Featured topic and speakers In […]
The U.S. has millions of “missing” workers, according to a new study. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Lifestyle choices are having more influence on people’s working patterns than any residual effects of COVID-19, a new study has suggested. In a research paper published Wednesday ahead of an annual conference run by the Brookings Institution thinktank, Katharine Abraham, […]