How to Make Smart Decisions About COVID Risk-Benefit

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April 19, 2022

Epidemiology How to Make Smart Decisions About COVID Risk-Benefit Scientific American asks experts in medicine, risk assessment and other fields how to balance the risks of COVID with the benefits of visiting public indoor spaces By Devabhaktuni Srikrishna

Public Health Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them High-quality respirators such as N95s and KN95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren't more people wearing them? By Tanya Lewis

Renewable Energy Mining for Clean Energy Could Undermine Biden's Environmental Justice Goals Many proposed mines for minerals used in electric vehicles and clean tech will be located next to the lands of Indigenous people By Jael Holzman,Scott Waldman,E&E News

Anthropology Decades of Photos Reveal Amazon Cultures Under Threat Photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces By Joanna Thompson

Epidemiology Are New Omicron Subvariants a Threat? How Scientists are Keeping Watch In South Africa, a network of researchers are studying whether new lineages BA.4 and BA.5 escape immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and prior infections By Amy Maxmen,Nature magazine

Cosmology Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics By Anil Ananthaswamy

Climate Change Responses to Rising Hunger Could Threaten Climate Goals European policymakers are considering easing environmental protection measures to allow for increased crop production By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Animals Groovy Monkey Teeth Pose a Tool-Use Mystery Weird dental scratches in humans can indicate tool use, but in some macaques, they mean something entirely different By Joanna Thompson

Politics Russia's War in Ukraine Follow our ongoing coverage of the conflict, from the humanitarian crisis to the global impact on food supply and the catastrophic potential of nuclear weapons

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Is Your Office Safe from COVID? What to Know Now That Your Boss Wants You Back Workers are anxious because the coronavirus is still infecting people. Here are ways to evaluate the safety of a shared work space By Christie Aschwanden | July 2021

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