Category: Health & Wellbeing

Activists say that the measures discriminate against migrant laborers, an essential pillar of the island’s high-tech industries.Activists say that the measures discriminate against migrant laborers,…

View More Taiwan Orders Some Tech Workers to Stay Indoors to Tackle an Outbreak

Production problems and a brief pause on its use kept the one-dose vaccine from becoming the game changer that health officials across the country believed…

View More High Hopes for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid Vaccine Have Fizzled in the U.S.

In two decades covering medicine for The New York Times, the people I met, and the truths they revealed, have always stayed with me.In two…

View More For a Science Reporter, the Job Was Always About the People

The island nation kept Covid cases low, and its resorts open, for much of the pandemic. But a recent surge exposed its overreliance on expatriate…

View More The Maldives Lured Tourists Back. Now It Needs Nurses.

The report follows innumerable anecdotes and several studies suggesting spikes in mental health problems among parents and caregivers during the pandemic.The report follows innumerable anecdotes…

View More Parents and caregivers reported mental health issues more often than others during the pandemic, a C.D.C. study says.

While some parts of the world have used lures such as free lottery tickets to lift inoculation rates, officials in a few places may go…

View More Nations weigh mandates and incentives to drive up vaccination rates.