Video above: Virus impact forcing massive job cuts at BoeingAs restrictions open up, and more Americans consider traveling to shake off the quarantine cabin fever, the safest way to travel may not seem so safe. Riding in an airplane, enclosed with people around you, seems like the opposite of social distancing. But with some workplaces…
A new survey focusing on America’s sleep patterns may shed some light on why we’re all so darn tired all the time.Not surprisingly, the research revealed that most Americans believed they weren’t getting what they determined to be enough sleep, or enough deep sleep.NEARLY HALF OF AMERICANS WOULD TAKE THIS MUCH OF A PAY CUT FOR…
It's been around two months of quarantine for many of us. The urge to get out and enjoy the summer is real. But what's safe? We asked a panel of infectious disease and public health experts to rate the risk of summer activities, from backyard gatherings, to a day at the pool, to sharing a…
about one-third of the population— were infected around the world." data-reactid="37" type="text">It’s worth it to look back at what sports looked like during the 1918 influenza pandemic, commonly called the Spanish flu. That pandemic lasted 15 months and killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, including approximately 675,000 Americans, according to HISTORY. More…
Old cigarette ads often made outrageous claims about cigarettes, including, infamously, that they could cure asthma. (They can't.) So the rumors that smokers might be at lower risk for contracting COVID-19 seem similarly specious. Oddly, such rumors seemed to be rooted in a grain of truth. (We'll get to that later.) Still, Salon spoke with three…
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-- OPINION -- A father named Chris George spent the better part of a year trying to answer a question that should not have been hard to answer: who grew and processed the lettuce that nearly killed his son? Colton George, now ten, was nine years old when he ate romaine contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 in
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