- During A Global Pandemic, Idaho Lawmakers Prioritize Attacking Trans Kids’ Rights - The state legislature has yet to pass any measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but it has found time to pass two unprecedented anti-trans bills. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-attacking-trans-kids-rights-coronavirus_n_5e74fa17c5b6eab779478d79 216 comments politics
- US dental patients are taking home far fewer opioid painkillers now than a few years ago, but the pandemic slowed the decline greatly. American dentists and oral surgeons were still prescribing opioids in late 2022 at four times the rate of British dentists in 2016. https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/dental-opioid-prescriptions-still-declining-not-quickly-pre-pandemic 254 comments science
- Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response | By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may have already been too late https://abcnews.go.com/health/wirestory/signs-missed-steps-slowed-trumps-pandemic-response-70107514 13 comments politics
- With a vaccine for COVID-19 still a long time away, blood serum could offer a way to slow the spread of the virus in the US, according to proposal on plasma therapy. Infusions of antibody-laden blood have been used before with reported success, like with the SARS epidemic and the 1918 flu pandemic. https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/13/covid-19-antibody-sera-arturo-casadevall/ 3 comments science