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The children being left behind by America’s online schooling
Like most children in the US, Juana* hasn’t been to school in two months. Her mother, Dilma, left school after first grade and doesn’t speak English. Until recently, the family in Oakland, California, only had a very simple cell phone they used to make calls home to family in Guatemala.
Without a computer to connect to her teachers and friends, Juana started to fall behind. While...
The secret to why some people get so sick from covid could lie in their genes
Some people die from covid-19, and others who are infected don’t even show symptoms. But scientists still don’t know why.
Now consumer genomics company 23andMe is going to offer free genetic tests to 10,000 people who’ve been hospitalized with the disease, hoping to turn up genetic factors that could point to an answer.
While it’s known that older people and those with health...