In this summer of viruses, new disease outbreaks became a source of deepening anxiety and even alarm. A warming climate, vanishing forests and global travel have accelerated the spread of pathogens from animals to people, as well as among people in different parts of the world.
Long Covid is keeping up to 4 million Americans out of the workforce, says new Brookings Institution data. That’s almost as much as the Great Resignation does.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says legislation like Louisiana’s “represent dangerous political interference and compromise patient care and safety.”