COVID Deaths Left Orphans: To Their Loss, Add Lifelong Health Risks

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June 08, 2022

Public Health COVID Deaths Left Orphans: To Their Loss, Add Lifelong Health Risks Avion Simon and his siblings, C.J. and Momo, lost their mom to COVID-19. Science has some ideas about the health hurdles that they and other COVID orphans could face in the future. By Sarah Weiser,Jill Rosenbaum

Public Health We Need to Improve Indoor Air Quality: Here's How and Why Upgrading buildings' ventilation, filtration and other factors would not only decrease COVID transmission but also improve health and cognitive performance in general By Tanya Lewis

Animals See the Mysterious Sea Creatures that Only Come Up at Night "Blackwater" divers photograph the largest migration of animals on the planet By Andrea Gawrylewski

Medicine Correcting Misinformation about How 'Plan B' Works As states move to limit access to abortion, some are taking aim at the popular form of emergency contraception By Sarah Varney,Kaiser Health News

Dark Matter Astronomers Might See Dark Matter by Staring into the Void Vast reaches of mostly empty space could offer superior odds for detecting the invisible substance thought to make up more than 80 percent of the material in the universe By Anil Ananthaswamy

Pollution The EPA Plans to Rein in Truck Pollution to Ease Asthma, but It May Not Go Far Enough Scientists say the agency's analyses do not capture the full extent of how bad exhaust is for segments of the population By Arianna Skibell,E&E News

Epidemiology How to Compare COVID Deaths for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People The death rate among unvaccinated people is still far higher than that among the vaccinated even though vaccinated people now make up a significant proportion of deaths By Amanda Montañez,Tanya Lewis

Neuroscience U.S. Kids Are Falling behind Global Competition, but Brain Science Shows How to Catch Up Paid parental leave and high-quality child care improve children's brain development and prospects for a better future By Dana Suskind,Lydia Denworth

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Devastating Loss of Grandparents among One Million COVID Dead Grandparents are a majority of the pandemic's death toll By Robin Marantz Henig | March 2022

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