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New COVID vaccines, plastic in our brains and why baby food isn't meeting nutrition standards: Catch up on the week's health news here Kaitlin Reilly August 24, 2024 at 11:49 AM
The agency's nutrition priorities are part of a government-wide effort in fighting the country's chronic disease crisis, including health problems such as diabetes and heart illnesses.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity intensified in many places. In the second quarter of 2020, there were multiple warnings of famine later in the year. [3] [4] In an early report, the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Oxfam-International talks about "economic devastation" [5] while the lead-author of the UNU-WIDER report compared COVID-19 to a "poverty tsunami". [6]
In the U.S., more than 401,000 people have died, the unemployment rate — while slowly improving — was 6.9% at the end of October, and big and small businesses alike have had to close their ...
In addition to restricting foreign nationals, Trump imposed a quarantine for up to 14 days on American citizens returning from Hubei, the main coronavirus hotspot at the time. This was the first quarantine order the U.S. federal government had issued in over 50 years.
A poll conducted May 20–21 found that 56% of the American public were "very" concerned about "false or misleading information being communicated about coronavirus", while 30% were "somewhat" concerned. 56% of Democrats said the top source of false or misleading information about the coronavirus was the Trump administration, while 54% of ...
The coronavirus pandemic has caused empty store shelves, long lines at food banks and tons of wasted food on farms. Can the U.S. food supply hold up under disruption caused by the virus?
Sarah Davidson Evanega is an American researcher who works in plant sciences, a public policy influencer and a science communicator, especially relating to agricultural biotechnology. She is a professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), and an adjunct professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University