Growing up on 13th Avenue in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and ’50s, Anthony “Tony” Fauci was the precocious son of the corner pharmacist. “They called him Doc,” he said. “The pharmacist back then served as the neighborhood psychiatrist, marriage counselor. So, it was serving the community.” The Fauci Pharmacy is long-gone. But beneath … Read more
WASHINGTON — When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today’s youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how the pandemic years have shaped their education, even though many had yet to set foot in a classroom when it began. First … Read more
Undocumented immigrant farm workers in the United States are feeling the impact of this pandemic and they do not qualify for much help from our government. The group Doctors Without Borders recently joined efforts in Immokalee, Florida, to help provide crucial medical help. An outbreak among these workers would affect the economics of not just … Read more