As of this week, parents in all but one state in the U.S. will be able to obtain vaccination against the coronavirus for children under 5 to as young as 6 months. Florida, as usual, remains an outlier, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis putting his political ambitions above the health and safety of his constituents by refusing to preorder the new vaccines or to make them available through state health departments.
DEAR ABBY: I took a DNA test seven months ago. It came back that the man who raised me is not my biological father. My heart dropped, but I decided to meet my real dad. We have formed a relationship, mostly a good one, and I introduce him as my dad now. My problem is, we hardly know each other or how we react to things.
Wide reports of a lifeguard When thinking about men’s health, many people tend to think about heart disease or ailments that that affect men as they age, such as an enlarged prostate or prostate cancer.
DEAR ABBY: My husband was forced into sex at the age of 12 by an older female. He has expressed how humiliated he felt and that he made it his mission to never feel inadequate again. He gets his “knowledge” of satisfying a woman through porn. I have tried to explain to him that what he’s seeing is only a performance put on for the male viewer.
Dear Doctors: I get why people are totally over dealing with COVID-19, but I don’t have that luxury. I’m 31 years old, and I thought I was lucky when my case of COVID-19 only felt like a bad cold. But it’s been six months now, and I’m still sick. Have we learned anything new about what causes long COVID-19?
In response to the Jan. 6 House committee hearings, Republicans are embracing an adage that has served dependably for millennia in sports and war: “The best defense is a good offense.” And the less defensible your position, the more attractive is this ancient maxim.
Sometimes good news comes with a cloudy lining. That’s the case with the recent announcement that Social Security and Medicare are financially stronger than it was feared during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Carol J. Ross, Independence To the editor: This is a story about older people learning how to use their smart phones.
ATLANTA — Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi learned as an adult what he hopes his young daughter and all children of color to learn from birth: They are not the racial problem. No racial group has more because they are more. No racial group has less because they are less.
ROCHESTER, Minn. — For people with severe arthritis pain in the knee joints, knee replacement is a viable option to improve their quality of life. Orthopedic surgeons now have a new tool for knee replacement: augmented reality.