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As the CEO of Jettly, a private jet charter service, Justin Crabbe has facilitated countless types of travel over the years. But over the past two months, a new category has emerged: coronavirus medical tourism, which involves traveling outside your home state to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. “We are seeing …

For Dayna Frank, owner of First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the feeling was completely indescribable. For Kerri Park, general manager at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, there was a palpable shift towards positivity. For Christine Karayan, owner of the Troubadour in Los Angeles, there was still some understandable hesitancy. It …

When the pandemic first hit, most of us imagined that it would be a few weeks or maybe a few months before the situation would resolve. We put our heads down and adapted to our new work and social realities the best we could. We figured it was annoying but …

Update, Sat. Dec. 12th, 4:15 pm: This story has been updated to include the FDA and CDC approval of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. On Friday, December 11th — two days after the single deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. so far — the Food and Drug Administration …

Both Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster have declared “pandemic” to be the 2020 Word of the Year. In posts on their respective websites Monday, November 30th, both publications explained their reasoning, with Dictionary.com calling “pandemic” the one word that “kept running through the profound and manifold ways our lives have been upended …

Today — barely nine months since the pandemic took off in earnest — the United States has surpassed 10 million cases of the coronavirus. That’s according to Johns Hopkins University, a bastion of public health and medicine, not a media outlet that some may choose to dismiss as “fake.” More …

Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger, and Ophelia Harutyunyan’s new Covid-19 documentary, Totally Under Control, began production in April in secret, while the three directors worked remotely from Maine and New York. (The documentary is now streaming online.) Until recently, the movie’s final cut was almost completely to-the-minute regarding the pandemic’s progress, …

In a press conference before President Trump’s scheduled discharge from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he has spent three days being treated for Covid-19, his medical team shared some information about his health while still evading certain specific questions from the media. Although Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, conceded that …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has authorized schools throughout the state to re-open this fall so long as they meet certain guidelines. At a press conference Friday, August 7th, Cuomo said school districts can re-open so long as they’re in a region that’s in phase four of re-opening (which the …

Earlier this summer, amid skyrocketing COVID-19 rates in Florida and urgings from public health experts to go into lockdown, Disney World reopened its gates. The decision to reopen was highly criticized, with many wondering how the theme park could possibly keep guests safe, happy, and healthy during a global pandemic. …