Melissa Healy is a health and science reporter with the Los Angeles Times writing from the Washington, D.C., area. She covers prescription drugs, obesity, nutrition and exercise, and neuroscience, mental health and human behavior. She’s been at The Times for more than 30 years, and has covered national security, environment, domestic social policy, Congress and the White House. As a baby boomer, she keenly follows trends in midlife weight gain, memory loss and the health benefits of red wine.
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Explicamos qué son los pasaportes de vacunas, cómo funcionan, dónde se han implantado y por qué algunas personas se oponen a ellos.
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Two COVID-19 vaccines have now been linked to a risk of developing blood clots. Scientists don’t know whether the vaccines are to blame.
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We explain what vaccine passports are, how they work, where they’ve been implemented, and why some people object to them.
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One-third of COVID-19 survivors were diagnosed with a psychiatric or neurological condition within six months of being infected with the coronavirus.
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Los investigadores se están tomando en serio la comprensión de una enfermedad que los pacientes llaman “COVID largo”. Sus síntomas incluyen dolores, fatiga, problemas de sueño y niebla cerebral.
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Un nuevo estudio muestra que incluso una variante del coronavirus que está hecha para transmitir no llegará muy lejos si no tiene la suerte de encontrarse con un superdifusor.
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A new study shows that even a coronavirus variant that’s built to transmit won’t get very far if it doesn’t have the good fortune of meeting a superspreader.
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Researchers are getting serious about understanding a disease patients call “long COVID.” Its symptoms include aches, fatigue, sleep problems and brain fog.
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The coronavirus strain that emerged in California is challenging the variant from the United Kingdom for dominance in the U.S., according to new CDC data.
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Un par de estudios publicados en Science examinan cómo evolucionan las variantes del coronavirus en los huéspedes humanos y por qué a los expertos les preocupa relajar las restricciones demasiado pronto.