In mid-June, Joanna Dreifus hit a pandemic milestone. The final member of her household—her teenage son—reached the point of full vaccination. “We had about two weeks where I thought, Phew, we’re okay,” Dreifus, a special-needs-education consultant in New York City, told me. Then the Delta variant took over. By July Fourth weekend, murmurs of post-vaccination infections, though uncommon, were starting to trickle into her social-media feeds.
Experts fear the market for fake cards will grow as more workplaces and public venues require proof of vaccination.
U.S. troops in Afghanistan are racing to evacuate people from the country ahead of Tuesday’s withdrawal deadline as the Kabul airport is targeted by rocket fire from militant groups. The rocket attacks come just days after over 175 people, including 13 U.S. troops, died after a suicide bomb outside the airport, with the group ISIS-K claiming responsibility for the attack.
Despite desperate climate warnings against new fossil fuel development, ExxonMobil is pursuing a massive new oil project in Guyana that is projected to be the corporation’s largest oil production in the world.
Two-thirds of Louisiana’s industrial sites lie in the path of Hurricane Ida, including oil refineries, storage tanks and other infrastructure like oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana’s Gulf Coast is a major oil and gas hub, with 17 oil refineries, two liquefied natural gas export terminals, as well as a nuclear power plant and many Superfund sites.
Hurricane Ida has completely knocked out power to the city of New Orleans and reversed the flow of the Mississippi River after it hit southern Louisiana and Mississippi, flooding the area with storm surges. The Category 4 storm hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina devastated the area 16 years earlier. “This is a storm like no other,” says Monique Verdin, a citizen of the United Houma Nation and part of the grassroots collaborative Another Gulf Is Possible.
“Someone I barely knew once let me know that he was away in Vegas with his ‘boyz’ to celebrate his divorce.
Workers at Activision Blizzard are rebelling. California is suing. But the publisher might have a bigger problem, and it holds 3 million shares.
Effective pay cuts and brutal hospital bills may be in store for Americans refusing to get the jab.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says his burning state needs more giant DC-10s. He’s right.
Effective pay cuts and brutal hospital bills may be in store for Americans refusing to get the jab.
He spends his meager income on his motorcycle and cigarettes.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says his burning state needs more giant DC-10s. He’s right.
We’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary takeout and groceries.
He spends his meager income on his motorcycle and cigarettes.
We’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary takeout and groceries.
A well-meaning rule is working completely backward.
Prospects for Medicare expansion are further complicated by a price tag that could exceed $350 billion over a decade and surpass the cost of other health priorities under discussion.
The executive order comes after the governor, who is recovering from his own case of Covid, touted the vaccine as the reason for his “brief & mild” infection.
A well-meaning rule is working completely backward.
They noted among other things that Chinese officials are still reluctant to share some raw data, citing concerns over patient confidentiality.
Health care costs for those infected with Covid-19 are significant, and some employers may follow Delta’s lead.
Prospects for Medicare expansion are further complicated by a price tag that could exceed $350 billion over a decade and surpass the cost of other health priorities under discussion.
The executive order comes after the governor, who is recovering from his own case of Covid, touted the vaccine as the reason for his “brief & mild” infection.
They noted among other things that Chinese officials are still reluctant to share some raw data, citing concerns over patient confidentiality.
Health care costs for those infected with Covid-19 are significant, and some employers may follow Delta’s lead.
We’ve all been focusing on getting kids back into the classroom, but what happens once they get there? As the Delta variant threatens to wreak more havoc, kids are returning to school, at least for now—and teachers are finding themselves in a race to undo the damage of the past 18 months. Many of us, for the first time in our careers, will have no idea what our students know on the opening day of school.
I designed my new house as a pet utopia, not a crash pad for nieces and nephews.
That testing glitch really ruined my O-week.
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.