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A Jordanian man smokes a cigarette in the capital Amman,on March 17, 2021. – With already one of the world’s highest rates of smokers, Jordan has seen the numbers lighting up soar since coronavirus restrictions began last year, a health crisis worrying medics. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID or smoking: Which is worse for your lungs?

SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 06: Jatniel Hernandez fills syringes with COID-19 vaccine booster shots at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on April 06, 2022 in San Rafael, California. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a second COVID-19 booster of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for people over 50 years old four months after their first booster. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

COVID boosters targeting Omicron variants were just approved in the U.S.—they could be available in mere days

BOCA CHICA BEACH, TX – AUGUST 25: SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The two companies announced plans to work together to provide T-Mobile cellular service using Starlink satellites. (Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)

Elon Musk says shutting down nuclear power plants is ‘insane,’ ‘anti-human,’ and a national security risk

Protester hold signs, at Beaumont-Hague, northwestern France, on July 6, 2022, during a protest as part of a final public consultation meeting for the large nuclear fuel pool project. (Photo by Lou BENOIST / AFP) (Photo by LOU BENOIST/AFP via Getty Images)

Personal Finance

France pledges to cap power prices to shield consumers from soaring power prices

25-year-old London student Zeno, with a student loans, poses for photographs, in north London, on May 11th 2022. – Zeno (who prefers to keep his last name private), owes just short of £75,000 to the government for his loans and says unless he “wins the lottery”, he’ll probably be repaying this debt from his salary for the next thirty years. According to the House of Commons Library that published this data last month, UK graduates shoulder more debt than any other developed country. 1.5 million students borrow nearly £20 billion in loans every year in England. On average, graduates of 2020 have amassed £45,000 ($56,000) in debt. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Personal Finance

U.K. students seek second jobs and food banks after inflation jump. Some students ‘can’t even afford to travel to their university library’

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 10: Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) Sophia Mineros (L) administers a dose of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to a person at an L.A. County vaccination site in East Los Angeles on August 10, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles County reported 683 monkeypox cases as of August 9th, double the amount of cases from ten days earlier. California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on August 1st over the monkeypox outbreak which continues to grow globally. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Is monkeypox an STD? Experts dismiss the question as semantics: ‘The debate is somewhat of a distraction’

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 17: Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci gestures as he waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies of Senate Appropriations Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee held a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2023 for the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Bill Gates salutes 81-year-old Anthony Fauci as a ‘hero’ ahead of his pending retirement

KATHMANDU, KATHMANDU DISTRICT, NEPAL – 2016/10/11: A monkey, rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), is sitting on a wall at Swayambhunath temple, eating an ice cream, aerial view on the houses of the city and a rainbow behind. (Photo by Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Monkeys could hold the key to a future vaccine for all COVID variants and the original SARS virus

Sick woman in bed blowing nose

COVID has evolved to make you sicker quicker, new study finds

A lone traveler in an airport

The CDC has guided the U.S. COVID epidemic to a soft landing—a manufactured conclusion that flies in the face of science, some experts say

Woman lying in a psychologist’s chair with a giant covid-19 virus above her. Long covid-19 symptoms. Coronavirus effect on mental health. Psychological support. Depression from social distancing. Pandemic fear. Psychology and anxiety of coronavirus. Vector illustration

Are you among the 1 in 5 Americans with long COVID? Here’s what you need to know about how brain-foggy—and potentially dangerous—it is

U.S. President Joe Biden gives the thumbs up while reacting to questions from the press about how he is feeling, while participating virtually in a meeting with his economic team in the South Court Auditorium of the White House campus July 22 in Washington, D.C. On Thursday morning, the White House Press Office announced that U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19.

Confused about how long to isolate with COVID? The most ethical, scientifically sound timeline looks a lot like what Joe Biden did, London researchers say

TOPSHOT – A patient shows his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the monkeypox virus, in the isolation area for monkeypox patients at the Arzobispo Loayza hospital, in Lima on August 16, 2022. – Nearly 28,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide in the last three months and the first deaths are starting to be recorded. (Photo by Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP) (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images)

Monkeypox breakthrough infections are real. ‘This vaccine will not be a silver bullet,’ WHO officials say

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 16: Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, Director, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; speaks during the COVID Federal Response Hearing on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. The hearing was held to examine and update the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, focusing on current status and future planning. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The head of the CDC says the agency should be reorganized, and that its COVID response ‘did not meet expectations’

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. – The World Health Organization chief called for the world to pull together and make the difficult decisions needed to end the Covid-19 pandemic within the next year. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

The world could be ‘sleepwalking’ into a ‘nuclear war,’ WHO chief warns regarding Russian-occupied Ukrainian power plant