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Sales of plexiglass tripled to roughly $750 million in the U.S. after the pandemic hit, as offices, schools, restaurants and retail stores sought protection from droplets that health authorities suspected were spreading the coronavirus.
There is just one hitch: Not a single study has shown that the clear plastic barriers actually stop the spread of the virus, said Joseph Allen of Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health.
“We spent a lot of time and money focused on hygiene theater,” said Allen, an indoor-air researcher. “The danger is that we didn’t deploy the resources to address the real threat, which was airborne transmission both real dollars but also time and attention.”
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All across Brazil, slums known as Favelas have long been places of crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death toll just passed 450,000. In the second of two reports, NewsHour special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky and producer Charles Lyons report on Brazil s COVID crisis.
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All across Brazil, slums, known as favelas, have long been places of crime and poverty marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic in a country where the death toll just passed 450,000.
Protection from coronavirus vaccines is expected to wane, but no one knows when. It could be as soon as this fall for the first wave of people vaccinated last winter, and many predict that Covid boosters will soon join annual flu shots. Ideally, anyone worried about fading vaccine protection could get tested for Covid-fighting antibodies, the primary defense against the virus. But as cancer patients and others with impaired immune systems are learning, it’s not that simple. “The good news is, we have an antibody test that can test for whether or not you’ve made antibodies in response to the vaccine,” said Craig Bunnell, chief medical officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “The bad news is that we don’t yet know how to interpret the results.”