Month: May 2021

If you want to know whether someone you're planning on spending time with has gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, you shouldn't feel bad about asking, according to etiquette experts.  Unlike many other pieces of health-related information, which are typically kept private in polite company, there's no shame in wanting to know whether people you're close with have gotten the vaccine, according to etiquette expert Elaine Swann. "We should not be afraid to ask the question," Swann told USA TODAY. That's because the vaccination status of a person can have health impacts for the people who spend time around them.  People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 can increasingly live more normal lives without putting themselves at a high risk of contracting the virus, government guidance says. But ma...

The Guardian India is hiding its Covid crisis – and the whole world will suffer for it Modi’s government had a choice between saving lives and saving face. It has chosen the latter Workers cremate people who have died of Covid-19 at a crematorium outside Siliguri on Tuesday. Epidemiologists believe the country’s reported death toll is only a fraction of the true figure. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images A few years ago, as Narendra Modi came into power, I worked on an investigative report about India hiding its malaria deaths. In traveling from tribal Odisha to the Indian national health ministry in New Delhi, my colleague and I watched thousands of cases disappear: some malaria deaths, first noted in handwritten local health ledgers, never appeared in central government reports; other malaria...