COVID
Boston-area Jewish day school to close after 25 years, saying its model is ‘no longer sustainable’
Located in Framingham, Massachusetts, MetroWest Jewish Day opened in 2003 and enrolls students in pre-K through eighth grade.
What to watch in Israel: War is over with ‘Murder at the Dead Sea’
Professor Michael Edelstein: Measles outbreak and the trust gap in vaccines
The fate of the Israeli tourism industry
Researchers may have found path to a natural cure for COVID-19 - study
Researchers prepared human cell cultures and infected some of them with ACE2. In the cells treated with the amino acid, ACE2 was found to have not spread as much.
Brazil's vaccine-skeptic Bolsonaro got the shot, document indicates
There is concern that the vaccination card might have been altered
‘Hindsight is 20/20’: Israel's lessons after 3 years of COVID-19
HEALTH AFFAIRS: On Israel’s three-year COVID anniversary, ‘czars’ look forward and back.
On This Day in 1900: Bubonic plague infects San Francisco
This was the first case of the plague in the continental US, and it hasn't left since. This event was defined by government denials of a pandemic, racism and discrediting medical officials.
Anti-vaccine activism melded with US antisemitism - study
This phenomenon is occurring through an “enabled and empowered anti-science ecosystem, with antisemitism and the targeting of Jewish biomedical scientists at its core.”
US CDC still looking at potential stroke risk from Pfizer bivalent COVID shot
FDA officials said they had not detected a link between the shots and strokes in two other safety monitoring databases.
90 seconds to midnight: World closer to doomsday than ever - Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is now 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to a global catastrophe.
In China, doctors say they are discouraged from citing COVID on death certificates
Chinese medical professionals felt they needed to doctor the truth.
A surprising effect: People wearing masks may have trouble identifying other faces
It's obviously harder to identify someone with a mask - but apparently, it is also harder to identify someone else while wearing a mask yourself!
US FDA, CDC see early signal of possible Pfizer bivalent COVID shot link to stroke
Health concerns rise as pattern shows people 65 and older were more likely to have an ischemic stroke 21 days after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech bivalent shot