coronavirus
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You Can Play These Popular Board and Card Games Online With Friends
This endless pandemic year has probably put a real damper on your weekly game nights. But now that we’re all facing down a socially distanced holiday season, it might be time to cast your eyes back to those heady early days of March and April, when we were all hosting Zoom cocktail hours and getting…
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There’s New Coronavirus Vaccine Data, and It’s OK to Actually Feel Hopeful
Today, Moderna announced that its coronavirus vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective. It’s the second vaccine candidate (after Pfizer’s, at 90%) to give us an early peek at their phase three results, and once again the news is good, but comes with caveats.
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What A COVID-19 Antibody Test Can (And Cannot) Tell You
Antibody testing is designed to tell you whether you have been exposed to the coronavirus in the past, whether you had actual symptoms of COVID-19 or not. But it’s important to remember what an antibody test can and can’t do.
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Sorry, Mouthwash Isn’t a Coronavirus Cure
Mouthwash is designed to kill germs in your mouth. It is, I’d have to say, pretty good at its job. And yet: we do not seriously trust mouthwash to prevent the transmission of common colds, strep infections, or any other mouth-germ-y illness. We shouldn’t get our hopes up it will be an effective way to…