CLOSE President Donald Trump jumped in when a reporter asked Dr. Anthony Fauci about the controversial use of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus. WochitWhen Aimee Blou heard the lupus drug she’s relied on for more than a decade promoted as a coronavirus antidote, she visited her pharmacist.The 40-year-old Stockton, California, woman was told the decades-old antimalarial drug…
Here’s what that entails. A smartphone belonging to Drew Grande, 40, of Cranston, Rhode Island, shows notes he made for contact tracing on Wednesday. Steve Senne/AP This article is part of Privacy in the Pandemic, a Future Tense series. As Americans enter the second month of coronavirus isolation, experts are thinking through what systems we’ll…
Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage son downstairs in their kitchen struggling to breathe. He had rolled his wheelchair to the oven to keep himself warm as he tried to regulate his temperature, she recalled, and was drenched in sweat from an apparent infection. In that moment
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Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I