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It's Time To Give Children COVID Vaccine, CHOP Experts Say Patch 5 hrs ago © Shutterstock CHOP is recommending children aged 12 to 15 get vaccinated. PENNSYLVANIA — For months now, COVID-19 vaccinations have focused on the nation's most vulnerable populations, working backwards until eligibility was finally opened up to the general public earlier this month in Pennsylvania. The general public, of course, has always meant anyone aged 16 and older. But now, health experts say, it's time to vaccinate children. And according to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Policy Lab, messagin...

UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:23 pm ET Replies(106) CHOP is recommending children aged 12 to 15 get vaccinated. (Shutterstock) PHILADELPHIA, PA — For months now, COVID-19 vaccinations have focused on the nation's most vulnerable populations, working backward until eligibility was finally opened up to the general public earlier this month in Pennsylvania. The general public, of course, has always meant anyone aged 16 and older. But now, health experts say, it's time to vaccinate children. And according to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Policy Lab, messaging to that effect is sore...

Arts Nonprofits Grapple With Effects Of COVID Year Story by    After more than a year of shuttered venues and cancelled performances, arts and entertainment nonprofit organizations are grappling with devastating amounts of lost revenue and facing a longer road to recovery than any other sector of nonprofits. The core of many arts nonprofits—live, in-person performances—was impossible to provide during the pandemic, leaving organizations scrambling to make up revenue. “That loss to gather together, which all of us experienced, for the performing arts, it meant that the core of what we ...

Louisiana Bill Would Make Employers Liable if Vaccine Required As of last Thursday, almost 1.9 million doses of vaccine against coronavirus had been administered to residents of Louisiana. The LDH, Louisiana Department of Health, report also found that over 781-thousand residents had completed their vaccination protocol. That translates into about 13% of the population here in Acadiana. While many are looking forward to the vaccine and the protection it provides others don't feel that way. It's for the protection of those who don't feel vaccination is in their best interest that legislation h...

Apr 1, 2021 BERLIN – A turning point for Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at New York's Columbia University, came when his lab discovered it could activate a few neurons in a mouse's visual cortex and make it hallucinate. The mouse had been trained to lick at a water spout every time it saw two vertical bars, and researchers were able to prompt it to drink even with no bars in sight, said Yuste, whose team published a study on the experiment in 2019. "We could make the animal see something it didn't see, as if it were a puppet," he said in a phone interview. "If we can do this today ...