Table of Contents: COVID-19 and the Flu How Do Flu Shots Work? Getting Your Flu Shot The upcoming fall and winter months could see another major nationwide surge in COVID-19 infections. Public health experts are even more wary, however, of another po[...]

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Table of Contents: How Does a Census Work? Why Should I Fill Out the 2020 Census? What Does the 2020 Census Ask? How Has COVID-19 Affected the 2020 Census? What Happens Now? Some people act like they know it all. Our new series Explain Like I’m 65 is[...]

Table of Contents: A Rejected Proposal What’s in the HEALS Act? Negotiations to Come Four months after the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act , Senate Republicans have unveiled their proposal for a second relief bill. The Heal[...]

Table of Contents: Mixed Messaging on Masks The Anti-Mask Crowd The Pro-Mask Crowd Is Your Mask Effective? Throughout the first half of 2020, the news has focused largely on one thing in particular: the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the subject ma[...]

Table of Contents: A Change of Plans Politicians Respond The Fight Against COVID-19 The European Union formalized its plans for reopening this week. Starting on July 1st, residents of 15 different countries will be permitted to travel into any EU nat[...]

Table of Contents: COVID-19 Drug Trials Dexamethasone: A Breakthrough Caution Since COVID-19 was first identified, scientists around the globe have been hard at work developing and testing potential vaccines. Despite constant efforts, public health e[...]

Table of Contents: Senior Finances Before COVID-19 How Will COVID-19 Affect Social Security? Is More Relief on the Way? Senior Finances Before COVID-19 To put it mildly, COVID-19 has taken financial outlooks for many seniors from bad to worse. The Ka[...]

Table of Contents: The State of Reopening New Surges in COVID-19 What’s Next? The United States has suffered more COVID-19 deaths than any other country and, this week, surpassed 2 million infections. This grim milestone comes as more and more states[...]

On June 3, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a new study into hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness against COVID-19. The double-blind study, conducted at the University of Minnesota, began in March. When it started, hydroxych[...]

Table of Contents: The HEROES Act More Stimulus Checks Better Care for Seniors HEROES Fund Will It Pass? Some people act like they know it all. Our new series Explain Like I’m 65 is for the rest of us. It will provide clear, digestible summaries to h[...]

COVID-19 has brought out the best in many Americans, but it has also emboldened and empowered fraudsters. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that, throughout the last few months, more than 18,000 scams have stolen $13.4 million from Americans[...]

Thus far, a single news story has dominated 2020: the spread of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Since it was identified in January, COVID-19 has spread from Wuhan, China to nearly every country on the planet. Infections currently number near the mill[...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have officially designated six new symptoms as potential COVID-19 warning signs. This follows several weeks of anecdotal reporting on additional, often non-respiratory, symptoms. Symptoms When COVI[...]

Table of Contents: A Potential Cure? Disappointing Findings Ongoing Trials Hydroxychloroquine was not a household name when the year started. Outside of the world of virology, few Americans had heard of the malaria drug, let alone considered taking i[...]

Across the country, doctors are conducting several clinical trials to assess the efficacy of possible COVID-19 treatments. STAT News reports that a Chicago hospital has seen promising results from Gilead Science’s antiviral drug remdesivir. The drug,[...]

More than 90% of Americans are currently under stay-at-home orders and non-essential businesses across the country have shut their doors. Grocery stores are among the few businesses that qualify as essential, though many have had to update their hour[...]

Table of Contents: Hospitals Are Not Overwhelmed Tests Are Available Infected Individuals Are Monitored Reduction in Cases for Two Weeks Do Your Part How long will it be until Americans can safely return to school, work, and social gatherings? That’s[...]

Table of Contents: The Immune System Types of Vaccines Herd Immunity Some people act like they know it all. Our new series Explain Like I’m 65 is for the rest of us. It will provide clear, digestible summaries to help seniors sort through the noise a[...]

Table of Contents: Troubling New Data Unanswered Questions The Response Stay Informed COVID-19 is primarily thought to be a respiratory disease. Global health experts have warned citizens to cover their mouths and watch out for symptoms like a dry co[...]

Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, both the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have discouraged most people from using cloth masks. Citing low efficacy and dwindling supplies, they have advised that masks only be [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11th and, in the weeks since, the outbreak has become exponentially more severe. Non-essential businesses have shut their doors, citizens are adhering to stay-at-home orders, a[...]

Table of Contents: The CARES ACT Aid to Small Businesses Aid to Big Businesses Aid to Taxpayers Expansions to Unemployment What’s Next? Some people act like they know it all. Our new series Explain Like I’m 65 is for the rest of us. It will provide c[...]

Table of Contents: Worst Case Scenario What Needs to Happen Our Role No one knows when the COVID-19 outbreak will end. It is clear, however, that the United States has mounted an unusually ineffective response. President Trump and his administration [...]

The ongoing outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led non-essential businesses in every state to close their doors and inspired many state and local governments to issue stay-at-home orders. Public health experts say our best way to avoid a [...]

Table of Contents: President Donald Trump Joe Biden Bernie Sanders Stay Safe and Informed The ongoing spread of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has inspired an inconsistent response from the U.S. government, to say the least. President Donald Trump Wh[...]

Table of Contents: What is Social Distancing? Why? FAQs Stay Safe Some people act like they know it all. Our new series Explain Like I’m 65 is for the rest of us. It will provide clear, digestible summaries to help seniors sort through the noise and [...]

Table of Contents: COVID-19 Cyberattacks Recognizing COVID-19 Scams Staying Safe With COVID-19 continuing to spread across the globe, seniors aren’t just vulnerable to infection, they’re also vulnerable to scammers looking to take advantage of chaos [...]

If you’ve braved a trip to the grocery store lately, you’re probably aware that things have taken a turn for the chaotic. The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has inspired a wave of panic-shopping around the country. Essentials are flying off of shelves and[...]

Keep Stress to a Minimum It sounds like a bad joke, but it’s true. Stressing yourself out over COVID-19 can increase your chances of contracting it. That’s largely because of stress hormones like cortisol. Over short periods, cortisol reduces inflamm[...]

Table of Contents: Garlic Silver Solutions Alcohol Water Expert Advice COVID-19 only recently reached pandemic status, but it inspired an “infodemic” almost immediately. Conspiracy theories and misleading medical advice have followed the virus from C[...]

What’s the best way to avoid contracting coronavirus (COVID-19)? It’s not purchasing a surgical mask. No, not even an N95. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the U.S. Surgeon General, the best [...]

No, seniors do not need facemasks to keep safe from the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). While a mask might prevent you from infecting others, there is little evidence to suggest it will keep you from contracting it in the first place. Surgeon Gener[...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has its hands full addressing the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Beginning in China’s Wuhan province, the virus has spread around the globe and infected people on nearly every continent. An “Infodemic” CO[...]