Scientific Community Joins Reckoning Over Racism | Scientists and academicians participtated in a one-day strike as the scientific community examines its role in perpetuating institutional racism. | |
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And Now … Fire Season. This Year, It's Especially Important to Prepare. Here's How | Fire season isn't waiting for the COVID-19 pandemic to subside. Protect yourself, your family and your neighborhood by preparing now for a bad wildfire. | |
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Tear Gas, Pollution, Wildfire Smoke: A Triple Threat to Your Lungs | Clean energy and transportation would tackle pollution and help ease the pressure from a main driver of wildfire smoke: climate change. | |
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What Effect Did Lockdowns Have on Curbing Spread of COVID-19? A Lot, Say Two New Studies | Researchers cast a backward look to see what might have happened during the first months of the coronavirus crisis without any preventive measures. | |
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Drugmaker Aims to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine in a Year for a Process That Usually Takes a Decade | To speed vaccine production from years to months, companies must start making a vaccine in large quantities even before it's clear it will work. | |
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After Criticism, WHO Official Issues Clarification on Asymptomatic Coronavirus Transmission |
| Outside public health experts suggested that the agency had erred, or at least miscommunicated, when one of its top COVID-19 officials said people who didn’t show symptoms were unlikely to spread the virus. | |
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Orange County Health Officer Resigns Due to Threats Over Face Mask Order |
| Dr. Nichole Quick resigned unexpectedly Monday from a job where she worked 80-hour weeks and faced threats at a public meeting and on social media, the county's executive officer said. | |
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