How to remotivate kids for more distance learning
Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids…
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10 things we learned in 2020 about living a good life
What do you need for a meaningful life? Even as 2020 strained communities around the world, it offered some object lessons in living well. In the…
Continue Reading Mediterranean diet named best diet for 2021
The gold medal for best 2021 diet went to the Mediterranean diet for the fourth year in a row, according to rankings announced Monday by U.S. News…
Continue Reading How to remotivate kids for more distant learning
Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids…
Continue Reading 10 things we learned in 2020 about living the good life
What do you need for a meaningful life? Even as 2020 strained communities around the world, it offered some object lessons in living well. In the…
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One American dies from Covid-19 every 33 seconds as the vaccine rollout hits snags
While hopes of vaccinating 20 million people by New Year’s Day sputtered out, the US now faces staggering new challenges in the fight against…
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Trump’s hospital price transparency rule is now in effect. Here’s what that means.
Hospitals now have to disclose the rates they privately negotiate with insurers under a Trump administration rule that took effect…
Continue Reading CDC hopes to double the number of coronavirus samples checked for new mutations
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to more than double the number of coronavirus genomes sequenced to watch for new mutations in…
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Top fitness trends for 2021
(KYMA, KECY/NBC News) – Getting in shape is often a top resolution for many people. But a new survey is revealing how the pandemic will continue to…
Continue Reading Mental health is one of the biggest pandemic issues we’ll face in 2021
With progress in efforts for Covid-19 vaccines and predictions for when the population will receive them, there seems to be a light at the end of the…
Continue Reading More than 4.2 million Americans have been given their first Covid-19 vaccine. Experts say the US needs to go faster
With more than 4.2 million people given their first doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far, experts say the pace of inoculation in the US needs to speed…
Continue Reading California reports more than 45,000 new coronavirus cases as surge continues into new year
California reported Sunday that 45,352 people newly tested positive for Covid-19, continuing a surge that has pushed hospitals and their exhausted…
Continue Reading More than 4.2 million coronavirus vaccines have been given and experts say the US needs to go faster
With more than 4.2 million people given their first doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far, experts say the pace of inoculation in the US needs to speed…
Continue Reading Europe has kept its schools open for much of the pandemic. Now closures loom
The coronavirus pandemic transformed the working and social lives of millions of European adults in 2020. Children too have suffered immensely, with…
Continue Reading 43 staffers at a California hospital tested positive for Covid-19. An inflatable costume may be to blame
Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the…
Continue Reading 43 staffers at a California hospital tested positive for Covid-19. An air-powered costume may be to blame
Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the…
Continue Reading For more than a month, US hospitals have had more than 100,000 coronavirus patients every day
Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the…
Continue Reading ‘This is about total collapse of the health care system if we have another spike’ of Covid-19
Even if you don’t have coronavirus, record-high Covid-19 hospitalizations could have a devastating impact on you. “If you are in a car…
Continue Reading As US inches closer to 350,000 Covid-19 deaths, one model projects about 115,000 more could die in next four weeks
The US topped 20 million total infections and inched closer to 350,000 Covid-19 deaths on the first day of 2021 — proof of a grim reality…
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Commit to healthy lifestyle changes in the new year
As we rang in the new year and said goodbye to 2020, many people are looking to be the best versions of themselves in…
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