COVID-19

In a highly unusual decision, the C.D.C. director, Rochelle Walensky, reversed a move by agency advisers and endorsed additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for health care workers, teachers and other workers at risk.

Some countries are using the idea of waning immunity to justify rolling out third-dose COVID-19 vaccine boosters to their populations.

The debate over booster shots has been fraught with misleading information and contradictory federal guidance. This lack of clarity isn't just a matter of semantics. It's prolonging the pandemic and putting people's lives at risk.

An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.

A table shared on TikTok cherry-picked data and misrepresents the true risk of COVID-19 to unvaccinated people.

SCIENTISTS appear to have U-turned on their views of lateral flow tests after a study offered an incredible insight into their efficiency at detecting the virus.

A letter criticizing the state's school mask rule was sent to DPHHS Director Adam Meier.

Both Republicans and Democrats want more information.

And for all three levers of power.

Loving the iPad beta but having trouble accessing any PDF's on the iPad added to Zotero after October 2020.

Hi people, I would like to get access to Zotero for Win from my application. Imagine something like the Word plug-in and what it does.

This is the entry node to a set of notes on my workflows. The creation of these notes was inspired in part by an episode of the Deep Questions podcast by Cal...

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Hi all- I am still pretty new to using Obsidian but it seems like a lot of plug-ins are developed to ease the transfer of information from an external application (Zotero, email, Dropbox, etc.) to Obsidian. I am wondering if this could be done more efficiently using Zapier (https://zapier.com/) or a similar service? Zapier allows people to connect their common workflow applications and create custom automation workflows based on “triggers” and “actions”. As a very simple example, Zapier can be...

I’m almost certainly using Zotero wrong. Instead of for citations and research, I’m using Zotero as a bookmarking tool and read-later service, and it’s working really well. Is no one else doing this? I’ve used many tools meant for saving links for

Why not? Zotero has everything that’s required for a bookmark manager: Ability to save snapshots; attach files of the webpages as PDF’s to the saved links (just press ctrl+P to save the…

An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration will meet for two days beginning Thursday to evaluate requests from Johnson & Johnson and Moderna to authorize booster doses.

VAERS data can be misleading if used to draw a direct connection to reported deaths and injuries.

Yesterday, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center launched new maps and data tracking the impact of COVID-19 in American Indian and Alaska Native

While the rate of Covid-19 infections nationwide is slowing, health care systems in some parts of the country are struggling with hospital wings still packed with patients.

In areas where COVID-19 vaccines are limited, vaccinating essential workers before older adults can reduce infections and deaths, according to a modeling study.

Researchers urge caution, but a clearer picture starts to emerge

Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: