Month: July 2021

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Paola Hernández, an unemployed single mother of three who lives in a hillside shanty here, doesn’t have a working internet connection for her children’s online classes or the money to print out homework assignments. The result is that for 15 months—since the school nearby closed because of the pandemic—her kids have had no classroom education. Her 16-year-old daughter Wendy will have to repeat the sixth grade. Her 8-year-old son Johan can’t read his own name. “My children are falling so far behind,” said Ms. Hernández, 31 years old, who held back tears explaining how she has had to beg on the streets while struggling to find work as a housecleaner. “I cry when I think about what kind of future I’m leaving for these kids.” Ms. He...

A woman who turned down a COVID-19 vaccine utimately caught the disease and died. Tricia Jones from Kansas City said she was wary of adverse effects from the shots. Missouri has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. A Missouri woman who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she was afraid of its side effects died in hospital last month after contracting the Delta variant, her mother told local news outlets. Tricia Jones, a 45-year-old mother of two from Kansas City, died on June 9 after a month in hospital on a ventilator. Her mother, Deborah Carmichael, told local m...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are an estimated 5 million adults living with dementia—and that number grows every year. In fact, by the year 2060 they predict that number to multiply to nearly 14 million. While often referred to as a disease or illness, dementia is actually a general term to describe "impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interfere with doing everyday activities." While occasionally forgetting a name or misplacing car keys is a normal part of aging, dementia isn't. Here is everything you need to know about it—including the number one cause of the memory-impairing condition. Read on—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sur...

White House officials acknowledged last month that they would fall short of their goal, which was set in early May when the US was vaccinating people at a much faster pace than it is now. The US reached its highest vaccination rate in mid-April when the seven-day average of doses administered daily topped 3.3 million. At that time, 1.8 million new people became fully vaccinated each day. But that rate was not sustained, dropping to a seven-day average of 1,121,064 doses given per day as of Saturday. About 685,472 people are becoming fully vaccinated daily. However, the administration did come close to its goal of vaccinating 160 million adults by the holiday -- 157 million adults were fully vaccinated as of Saturday, federal data shows. Health experts have been sounding the al...