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Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars “in hand.” Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. “Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn’t a good life, but I say that it’s a better life than it was.”. Artist Dorothea Lange. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images/via Getty Images)

If your mother was pregnant during the Great Depression, years might have been taken off your life by the economy, study says

What symptoms should one look out for? The short answer: not necessarily the same symptoms that signaled COVID at the beginning of the pandemic.

COVID cases are on the rise again this autumn. Here are the symptoms to look out for

Orange, CA – November 01: A Newport Beach Fire ambulance makes its way to the entrance at Children’s Health of Orange County on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Orange Countys health officer has declared a local health emergency in response to increases in respiratory illnesses and an onslaught of the quickly spreading RSV, a respiratory virus that is most dangerous in young children. (Photo by Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

The ‘tripledemic’ is sickening kids across America and straining hospitals, as a gift shop turns into a triage room and a hospital exec helps out in the ER

A flock of turkeys

A near-record bird flu outbreak means you’ll likely have a harder time finding a Thanksgiving turkey this year—and you’ll probably pay more

FEBRUARY 18: TRENTO, ITALY: Two researchers, Marica Anderle and Claudio Ballabio, with the test-tube brains, which appear as irregular spheres similar to small walnuts, in the laboratory at the Cibio Department of the University of Trento on February 18, 2020 in Trento, Italy. These researchers are artificially creating “organoids” to understand the genetic mechanisms of childhood central nervous system cancer and possible treatments. (Photo by Alessio Coser/University Of Trento via Getty Images)

Scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus. What they saw could explain Long COVID

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 31: Parade participants in costume holding a sign reading “R.I.P. Covid 19” as they attend the 2022 Halloween Parade on October 31, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

New York is becoming an ’emerging hotspot’ for the XBB family of COVID variants that hit Singapore, as BQ closes in on U.S. dominance

The U.S. is officially in a flu epidemic, federal health officials say. They’re preparing to deploy troops and ventilators if necessary

An indulgent morning coffee while pregnant—or soda or tea—could result in shorter stature in children, potentially putting them at risk for obesity and disease later in life, according to a study released Monday.

Drinking coffee while you’re pregnant could make your kids shorter by a few centimeters, a new study says

25 November 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart: An intensive care nurse cares for a patient suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RS virus or RSV) who is being ventilated in the children’s intensive care unit of the Olgahospital in Stuttgart. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa (Photo by Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Viral infections like RSV, the flu, and COVID have one Southern California county declaring a pediatric health emergency. It’s far from alone

APPLE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 11: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Lab technician Alejandra Sanchez (C) is hugged by a clinician (TOP) as she works in the Emergency Department at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on March 11, 2022 in Apple Valley, California. The hospital was treating 125 confirmed COVID-19 patients at the peak of the Omicron surge but has seen a sharp decline and is currently caring for 13 confirmed coronavirus patients. Today marks the two year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s official declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A COVID BQ wave that started in New York has already reached California. It’s about to engulf the rest of the nation, experts say

A medical worker processes a COVID-19 test

Scientists have their eyes on several ‘Deltacrons’—new COVID variants with the potential to attack the lungs like Delta and spread as easily as Omicron

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 14: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing about the federal response to monkeypox, on Capitol Hill September 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. The U.S. is working to contain the largest monkeypox outbreak in the world, with more than 22,600 cases across all 50 states. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Officials with COVID who take Paxlovid keep getting rebound positives. It’s now happened with Biden, Fauci, and the head of the CDC

05 January 2022, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Greifswald: Different variants and mutations of the corona virus are graphically displayed on a computer monitor in the sequencing laboratory for corona variants (CoMV gene) at Greifswald University Medical Center. Corona viruses are constantly changing and need to be monitored by elaborate genetic analyses. In Greifswald, researchers are working at full capacity and have sequenced more than 1,500 samples in recent weeks. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Forget about a single strain: The new COVID calculus is all about viral families

TOPSHOT – A woman holds an oxygen mask over the face of her baby suffering from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a ward of a children’s hospital in Kiev on November 16, 2021. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

The CDC is now tracking a new immune-evasive Omicron variant spiking in Ukraine that’s evading treatment

President Joe Biden receives a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Oct. 25. The White House is asking businesses to help employees get updated coronavirus vaccines by hosting on-site clinics and will initiate a new program providing some Americans with free home delivery of Covid-19 treatments before an expected surge of the virus this fall.

High hopes were riding on the new Omicron boosters this autumn. But they may not work any better than the original