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Every year millions of people in North America suffer from the common cold, sore throat and other more serious respiratory illnesses. Influenza and pneumonia, one of the main complications of influenza, cause more than 5,000 deaths each year in Canada alone. Every fall, older people and other high-risk groups are encouraged to get the flu […]
One of the best and toughest parts of being a science writer is acting as a kind of jargon liaison. Weird, obscure, aggressively multisyllabic words appear in scientific discourse; I, wielding nothing but a Google Doc, a cellphone, and the Powers of the Internet™, wrest these terms from their academic hidey-holes and try to pin […]
MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO – Abigail Matos-Pagán walked into a bright blue house in Mayagüez earlier this summer and was greeted by Beatriz Gastón, who quietly led the way to her mother’s small room. Matos-Pagán had come to provide a covid-19 vaccine for Wildelma Gastón, 88, whose arthritis and other health problems confine her to bed. […]