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C.D.C. Closes Some Offices Over Bacteria Discovery

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New York Is Positioned to Reopen Schools Safely, Health Experts Say

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New story in Health from Time: New Hampshire Woman Becomes First Person to Get Second Face Transplant in U.S.

(BOSTON) — For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, whose face was disfigured in an attack by her ex-husband, became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo the procedure after her first transplant began to fail six years after the operation. The transplant from an anonymous donor took place at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in July. The 52-year-old former nurse is expected to resume her normal routine, which all but ended when the first transplant failed a year ago. “I’m elated,” Tarleton told The Associated Press , in an exclusive telephone interview from her home in Manchester. She is still healing from the operation so photos are not being made available of her new face. “The pain I had is gone,” she said. “It’s a new chapter in my life. I’ve been waiting for almost a year. I’m really happy. It’s what I needed. I got a great match.” More than 40 patients worldwide have received

Why the Coronavirus is More Likely to ‘Superspread’ Than the Flu

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Want to Be a Doctor? Take Your Chances in a Closed Room With Strangers

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New story in Health from Time: Europe Is Near the Brink of a Second Wave of COVID-19. Will Its New Containment Strategy Work?

When European governments began to end harsh coronavirus lockdowns in May and June, officials stressed that they would only keep easing measures so long as new infection numbers remained low. But daily case numbers in several western European countries have begun to tick upward again. On Thursday France and Germany both recorded their highest daily number of new cases in three months, and infections are increasing fast in Spain and the Netherlands too, among others. Public health experts poring over the data are now warning that Europe could be on the brink of a second wave of COVID-19 —unless governments keep their promises to sharpen rules when infections begin to spike. Many European governments are now deploying a new strategy to contain the virus: imposing localized restrictions in specific areas where there are outbreaks, in an effort to avoid a return to the large-scale national lockdowns that devastated their economies in the spring. And, as people have aga

New story in Health from Time: COVID-19 Isn’t the First Pandemic to Affect Minority Populations Differently. Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu

On a Monday afternoon in early October about 100 years ago, a special meeting of the Baltimore school board was held to decide whether schools should close. Some 30,000 children—more than 60% of the city’s students—had reported absent that day, along with 219 teachers. It’s unknown how many students stayed home because they were already sick or because they feared getting sick. Either way, the 1918 influenza known as the “Spanish Flu” was to blame. Baltimore, like other cities and towns across the country, was grappling with overwhelmed hospitals and crippled industries. The city had something else in common with much of the rest of the U.S. at that time, too: it was racially segregated. The school board ultimately decided to close the schools, but the decision wasn’t unanimous. Some members agreed with John D. Blake, the city health commissioner, who wanted schools to remain open. Blake—who was accused by some at the time of downplaying the pandemic in order to keep pub