You know when you go on vacation and you notice every little detail about the place you're visiting? The statues! The billboards! The flowers bursting through the cracks in the sidewalk!
Most of us do the opposite when we're in a familiar setting, going on autopilot and tuning out our surroundings. It doesn't have to be that way, says Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. She shares tips on how to practice paying attention and appreciate what's right in front of you.
If you've just tested positive for COVID and you have common risk factors for serious illness, there are treatments available that could help you avoid the worst and recover more quickly.
Paxlovid, a five-day course of pills from Pfizer, is at the top of the list of recommended treatments. But some people have had trouble getting the medicine quickly, when it can make a difference in the progression of the disease, despite the administration's effort to make the medicines easy to obtain after a positive test for COVID-19. Here are three tips for how to secure the pill when you need them.
When he died of COVID at age 37, James Summers, a Black father of nine kids, became part of a devastating demographic fact of this pandemic: In the U.S., people of color on average have had younger ages of death from COVID than whites – and lower-income communities have been hardest hit.
Many of these deaths have come in people in the prime of life. As the U.S. approaches the grim milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID, the nation has yet to reckon with the effects of these losses. Here are some of their stories.
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