Millions of people are now vaccinated, boosted and newly recovered from Covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant. They have what some outside the medical community have labeled “super i...
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California Unveils New Plan To ‘Live With Covid’ And Fight Outbreaks Locally
Topline After lifting California’s mask mandate earlier this week, state officials said Thursday they will shift to a new strategy of monitoring for future coronavirus upticks and rapidly distributing...
Mental Illness Risk Soars After Covid Infection, Study Finds — Even With Milder Cases
Topline People with Covid-19 are much more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder or be prescribed a mental health-related drug up to one year after infection, according to a new peer re...
Fewer Americans Now Want To Prioritize Racial Issues And Poverty Than In 2021, Study Finds
Topline Fewer Republicans and Democrats think racial issues and poverty should be top policy priorities compared to a year ago, according to a study published Wednesday by Pew Research Center, as conc...
CDC Reportedly Plans To Ease Masking Guidelines As States Lift Mandates
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to update its indoor mask-wearing guidelines as early as next week, NBC reported Tuesday, possibly easing its recommendations as many...
California Will Keep School Mask Mandate For At Least Two More Weeks — Even As State Lifts Indoor Mandate
Topline California will keep in place its mask mandate for school children for at least two more weeks even though the state’s indoor mask mandate for vaccinated Californians is set to expire Wednesda...
What You Should Know About Traumatic Brain Injury
Actor/Comedian Bob Saget attends the “Cool Comedy – Hot Cuisine” benefit for scleroderma which … [+] afflicted his sister. Getty Images Actor and comedian, Bob Saget, died on J...
4-day workweek was cure for employee burnout at online store Primary
Primary co-founders and co-CEOs Cristina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard shifted the online children’s clothing retailer to a four-day workweek during the pandemic and have no plans to go back to th...
‘Ted Lasso’ Emmy Winner Hannah Waddingham Is Starring In Her Own Super Bowl Ad For Rakuten
Hannah Waddingham starring in the new Rakuten Super Bowl ad Rakuten She has already won over the hearts of audiences with her Emmy-winning performance as tough boss with a soft side Rebecca Welton on ...
European countries scrap Covid rules despite warnings it’s too soon
A pedestrian zone in Oslo on Feb. 2, 2022, after Norway scrapped most of its Covid restrictions. Terje Pedersen | NTB | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Several European countries are scrapping Covid regul...
Federal Government Runs Its First Monthly Budget Surplus Since 2019
Topline The federal government’s revenue surpassed expenses by $119 billion last month, marking its first monthly surplus since before the Covid-19 pandemic began, the Treasury said Thursday—amid an i...
Inflation, high gas prices contributing to financial anxiety
Gasoline prices are displayed at a Los Angeles gas station on Feb. 8, 2022. Mario Tama | Getty Images As inflation climbs to historic highs, rising gasoline and other consumer prices are among America...
Struggling small businesses hope more Covid relief is on the way
andresr | E+ | Getty Images Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, many small businesses are still struggling. While financial assistance for those impacted by the crisis has ended, some of the ...
Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Malaysia, Philippines reopen for travel
Another day — another border reopens. In the past two weeks, a slew of countries announced plans to reopen or relax border restrictions. This includes places that have maintained some of the str...
Appeals Court Won’t Immediately Reverse Block Of Biden’s Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate
Topline An appeals court left in place a national block on President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees Wednesday, declining to overrule a lower court ruling that halted a key ...
Financial anxiety is high. Why financial planners may miss the signs
The Covid-19 pandemic has made it difficult for people to answer big questions about their futures, and many financial planners are underestimating the financial anxiety that is causing, according to ...
New York state lifts indoor mask mandate as surge in omicron cases subsides
A person wearing a face mask leaves a store on January 26, 2022 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images New York is dropping its strict indoor mask mandate as the surge in Covid-19 cases a...
Anti-Vaccine Mandate Protesters Block Vital U.S.-Canada Border Crossing For Second Straight Day
Topline Truck drivers protesting Canada’s Covid-19 vaccine rules continued to partially block the busy Ambassador Bridge linking the United States and Canada for a second day Tuesday evening, an offsh...
Why the U.S. is facing a paint shortage
Demand for raw materials in the paint industry soared over the pandemic as quarantined consumers took to DIY projects and home improvement. But supply just couldn’t keep up. “The raw-mater...
Johnson & Johnson plant pauses Covid vaccine production, report says
Syringes and a box of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The only Johnson & Johnson facility currently making usable batches of the companyR...
Feds Seize $3.6 Billion In Stolen Bitcoin, Arrest Couple Five Years After Massive Crypto Exchange Hack
Topline U.S. authorities arrested a New York City couple Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5 billion worth of bitcoin stolen during a hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016, $3....
China Under Fire For Treatment Of Olympic Athletes
Topline Representatives from several countries participating in the Beijing Olympics have taken issue with China’s behavior as a host country, pointing to inhumane conditions for quarantined athletes,...
Spotify Pulls More Than 110 Episodes Of Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Topline Spotify has taken down 113 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience, it emerged Saturday, after Rogan issued an apology for using racial slurs on his podcast widening scrutiny of the comedian and ...
Respirator Masks 48% More Effective Than Cloth Masks, Study Finds
Topline N95 and KN95 respirator masks reduce the odds of testing positive for Covid-19 by 83% compared to 66% for surgical masks and 56% for cloth masks, according to a real-world study published Frid...
at-home testing, from Covid to cancer, worth $2 billion dollars
The at-home testing market is bigger than just Covid tests, and it’s bigger than over-the-counter pregnancy tests. In fact, the emerging marketplace of consumer-initiated lab testing may be wort...
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty Images Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of ...
Americans are ready to travel as their omicron fears fade
Göreme, in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey. Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Americans’ enthusiasm for travel has rebounded to levels unseen since the broad rollout of Covid-19 vacci...
U.S. Gun Sales Plummeted Last Month From Record-Breaking Pandemic Levels
Topline Nationwide gun purchases fell more than 40% in January from the same month a year ago, according to industry estimates, as a Covid-driven surge in firearm sales begins to subside — but last mo...