PLUS: The Covid-19 headlines you need to know, a distraction, and something to read.
By Eve Sneider | 03.31.22 |
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| The FDA authorizes second boosters for older adults, Shanghai expands lockdowns, and BA.2 now accounts for a majority of US cases. But first, here's this week's big story: | |
| Until recently, employees in England—and elsewhere in Europe—have been able to claim sick pay if they catch Covid and have to quarantine. (In the US, of course, there's often no sick pay at all.) But now that the British government has joined other countries in removing all of its protective health measures, workers will soon be forced to choose between working when sick and losing pay. Without additional restrictions or precautions in place, and at a time when cases are at their highest levels yet in some parts of the country, the questions of if and how to return to the office are particularly challenging for immunocompromised or otherwise vulnerable workers. When many employers allowed workers to do their jobs remotely at the start of the pandemic, there was much talk of an impending work-from-home revolution. But as regulations change, that conversation has shifted to one about how best to live and work in the age of coronavirus. | |
| The FDA authorized a second booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for people over 50 and immunocompromised Americans over 12 on Tuesday. (Washington Post) Shanghai announced that it will expand lockdowns tomorrow, when residents in the eastern part of the city were originally supposed to be done with their part of a staggered quarantine. Residents in areas classified as low risk will be free to leave, but most in the city will have to stay at home. (Reuters) The latest CDC data shows that the Omicron BA.2 subvariant now accounts for more than half of cases in the US, though experts say this strain is unlikely to trigger a surge like the one last winter. (NBC News) After more than two years of warnings, the CDC did away with its risk advisory for cruise ships yesterday. The agency has said it's working with the industry to ensure that conditions are safe for crews and passengers. (NPR) In a new report, the WHO finds that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide rose 40 percent last week, despite the fact that cases are declining throughout much of the world. (CBS News) | |
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| Remember Clubhouse? The invite- and audio-only social app seems to have disappeared from the zeitgeist as quickly as it emerged. But it has still made an indelible mark on the internet. | |
| The Ukrainian city of Mariupol has withstood intense and unremitting attacks from Russia. Through it all, a single cell tower kept thousands of people linked to the outside world for weeks—until it, too, lost connection. | |
| Doomscrolling: Everyone does it, everyone hates it. But psychologists have a few suggestions for kicking the habit once and for all. | |
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